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Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) - Pearl Between European Spa Regions

By: Zdenka Maruska

Karlsbad is the best notorious spa town situated in West Bohemia. It was founded nearly 1350 by the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, Charles IV. Its impressive roads and colonnades are surrounded by peaceful wooded hills crisscrossed with climbing and biking ways that are perfect for pleasurable walks all year round.
A tiring cultural events calendar, many festivals as well as international conferences make Karlovy Vary the biggest and liveliest spa town in the Czech Republic visited not only by the spa-guests but also celebrities. Karlsbad achieved its fame also thanks to its well-known plant based liqueur known Becherovka (nicknamed "The 13th Spring"), Mattoni mineral water, exclusive spa wafers, and Moser crystal work. The remedial waters from the springs in the valley of the Tepla River have been used by public from time immemorial - both for consuming as well as bathing.
The past of Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary).
Karlovy Vary was established about 1350 by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Since the 15th century the town rapidly urbanized thankfulness to the recognition of domestic thermal springs. As such Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) spa has more than 600 years long tradition. Up to 18th century most of the healing procedures consisted of different kinds of bath but already in 1521, Dr. Vaclav Payer Loket propose a drinking heal as well. More than two hundred years later Dr. David Becher carried out one of the first chemical analyses of the domestic mineral sources. Drinking treatment quickly proved valuable above all in cases of stomach problems and diseases of intestines & liver.
In 1718 the Monarch Charles VI gave the town a privilege permitting export of the mineral water, outside the town borders. Thanks to that the travel as well as commerce promptly developed.
The 1st half of the nineteenth century was apparent by widespread construction and enlargement of the spa. The Empire Vridlo Arcade (1826), Mill Bath (1828), novel Vridlo Bath (1831) & a lot of other buildings served another half-century, till a huge arrival of spa-guests required further expansion.
In 1870s the launch of railway led to the "golden ages" of spa resort. At that period the modern Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) was established and its esprit is in some measure still preserved these days. The buildings since that period are works of the Viennese architects F. Fellner as well as H. Helmer.
Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) could boast about several colonnades - the most popular is the Vridlo Colonnade with its several hot sources. The Market Colonnade on the other hand is the site of today's market.
Organic Remedial Sources in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary).
The 12 springs that be able to be found here are rich in sodium, bicarbonate as well as sulphates. The sources are quite similar to each other with regard to their chemical composition. However they come out of the earth at diverse temps and contain a variety of quantities of CO2. In the view of Karlovy Vary there are just about a hundred sources of various hotness & composition. The mineral-rich mud from a nearby spring is as well used in healing procedures. The mineral water & mud are used to cure patients with digestive & musculoskeletal conditions, diabetic issues and overweight.
VIP Spa visitors of Karlovy Vary.
The listing of remarkable records that visited Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) is thanks to the fame of the city very extended. The spa city has been the preferred summer season option in particular for various musicians, writers and poets but also famous polititions. Amongst them was Johann W. Goethe as well as the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, German thinker Johann Fichte Gottlieb, German writer Heinrich Heine, the mistress of Ruler Franz Joseph I, the performer Katharina Schratt, Rothschild Rockefeller, manufacturer Arthur Krupp, Izzet Pasha from Constantinople, Chinese Ambassador Chen Soen Ling. Every year the city is in addition visited by many well-known artists and film directors thanks to the yearly Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) International Film Fest.
Leisure time activities and events in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad).
In the stunning charming valley where the town is located, tourists be able to find an 18-hole golf course that is single of the oldest golf clubs in the country. There is in addition a golf hall equipped with simulators, indoor and outside tennis courts, up to date shooting range, swimming pools, snooker, bowling, football and squash courses, riding facilities, skate boarding, karate club. Visitors can also decide for sightseeing excursions in the town with an experienced guide or else enjoy the many perfomans on the colonnades and in community churches as well as painting auctions, local cinema, theatre, dance halls, casinos and nightclubs. The town also provides several museums focusing on nature, spas, porcelain & glass.
April - Engagement of European upper classes
June - Mozart and Karlsbad (music fest); International Movie Festival; Festival of Ancient Music
August - Beethoven Days; Fresh Filmfest (student films)
September - International folk festival; Karlsbad Dvorak Autumn
October - Karlovy vary Week (Tourfilm, Spa fest, Spa Conference), Jazzfest (Global festival of Traditional and Modern Jazz).

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Author is a Czech Spa history and treatments expert. He is the head therapist of Spa-resorts.cz, leader in organizing spa resort getaways in famous Czech spa townKarlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad) and other SPA destinations such as Marienbad, Franzienbad and etc.

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