PRIVAT 4
KARLOVY VARY - PRIVATE

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Karlovy Vary was founded in Western Bohemia in the 14th century by the Czech King Charles IV, whose entourage discovered a hot spring by chance. According to his own experience the Emperor proclaimed the spring the healing power. However, its major construction and balneological boom came 200 years later. In the course of time the spa became more and more popular. Rich aristocracts went here in order to be treated. Without doubt, the most prominent patient of the 18th century was the Russian Czar Peter the Great and the artists´celebrities of the 19th century, like Beethoven, Franz Josef I., Dobrovský, Paganini, Chopin, Mozart, Gogol, Tyl, Barrande, Purkyně, Freud and many others.

At the beginning of the 18th century the first public spa house was built (the Mill Spa) as well as the Baroque St. Mary Magdalene church. The further construction development took place in the 2nd half of the 19th century when the Mill Colonnade, the Thermal Spring Colonnade, Emperor´s Baths or the building of the present-day theatre originated. We can see the greatest and warmest Karlovy Vary´s spring in the centre of the spa zone. It rises to the surface with remarkable force. The Thermal Spring is able to spout water 12 meters high.

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