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Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) - Treasure Amongst World Spa Cities

By: Petr Kovar

Karlovy Vary is the best known spa city located in West Bohemia. It was established approximately 1350 by the Holy Roman Emperor & King of Bohemia, Charles 4. Its distinguished roads & colonnades are surrounded by tranquil wooded hills crisscrossed with mountaineering & biking paths that are best for pleasurable walks all time round.
A tiring cultural events calendar, numerous festivals & international conferences make Carlsbad the major and liveliest spa city in the Czech Republic visited not only by the spa-guests but also celebs. Carlsbad achieved its fame also thanks to its known natural liqueur known as Becherovka (nicknamed "The thirteenth Spring"), Mattoni mineral water, distinctive spa wafers, and Moser crystal work. The curing mineral water 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 Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad).
Karlovy Vary was founded around 1350 by the Bohemian ruler and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Since the fifteenth century the town dynamically developed thankfulness to the attractiveness of regional thermal springs. As such Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) spa town has more than 600 years long tradition. Up & about to 18th century most of the therapies consisted of numerous sorts of baths but already in 1521, Dr. Vaclav Payer Loket propose a drinking therapy as well. More than 2 hundred years in a while Dr. David Becher adopted one of the first chemical analyses of the domestic mineral sources. Drinking treatment rapidly proved valuable particularly in cases of stomach disorders as well as illnesses of intestines & liver.
In 1718 the Monarch Charles VI gave the city a privilege enabling export of the mineral water, outside the city limits. Thankfulness to that the traffic as well as business promptly developed.
The 1st half of the 19th century was noticeable by wide-ranging construction and growth of the spa place. The Empire Vridlo Colonnade (1826), Mill Baths (1828), novel Vridlo Bath (1831) & a lot of other buildings served another half-century, until a huge influx of spa-goers required further development.
In 1870s the establishment of railway led to the "golden age" of spa. At that point the modern Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) was established and its esprit is partially still preserved these days. The buildings starting that period are works of the Viennese architects F. Fellner as well as H. Helmer.
Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) be able to display about several colonnades - the most popular is the Vridlo Colonnade with its numerous hot mineral resources. The Market Colonnade on the other hand is the location of today's marketplace.
Natural Therapeutic Sources in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad or Karlsbad).
The 12 springs that be able to be found here are rich in sodium, bicarbonate and sulphates. The springs are very comparable to each other with respect to their chemical makeup. But they come out of the ground at dissimilar temps and include numerous amounts of CO2. In the surroundings of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) there are about a hundred sources of various temperature & constitution. The mineral-rich mud from a close source is as well used in applications. The water & mud are used to heal patients with digestive and musculoskeletal disorders, diabetes & obesity.
VIP Spa visitors of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad).
The list of remarkable records that visited Karlovy Vary is thanks to the fame of the city very extended. The spa town has been the preferred summer time choice in particular for various musicians, writers & poets but also known political figures. Among them was Johann W. Goethe as well as the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, German philosopher Johann Fichte Gottlieb, German poet Heinrich Heine, the mistress of Ruler Franz Joseph I, the actress Katharina Schratt, Rothschild Rockefeller, businessman Arthur Krupp, Izzet Pasha from Constantinople, Chinese Ambassador Chen Soen Ling. Each year the town is also visited by numerous recognized artists and film directors thanks to the annual Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) International Film Fest.
Leisure time activities & events in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary).
In the gorgeous charming valley where the town is located, visitors be able to find an 18-hole golf course that is single of the oldest golf club sets in the state. There is also a golf hall equipped with simulators, indoor and outside tennis courts, modern shooting range, swimming pools, snooker, bowling, soccer and squash courses, riding facilities, skate boarding, karate club. Tourists can also opt for seeing the sights tours in the town with an qualified guide or enjoy the regular shows on the colonnades & in community churches as well as painting auctions, local cinema, theatre, dance halls, casinos and nightclubs. The town also provides quite a few museums focusing on natural history, health spas, porcelain and glass.
April - Appointment of European upper classes
June - Mozart & Karlovy vary (music festival); International Film Festival; Fest of Antiquated Music
August - Beethoven Days; Fresh Filmfest (student films)
September - Worldwide folk fest; Karlovy vary Dvorak Autumn
October - Karlsbad Week (Tourfilm, Spa festival, Spa Conference), Jazz festival (Global fest of Long-established 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 retreats in famous Czech spa townKarlovy Vary and other SPA destinations such as Marienbad, Franzienbad and etc.

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