But why just the chamois? The legend has it that it was a deer that jumped into hot mineral water... Well, but because in Baron Augustin Lützow´s opinion a deer would never jump off a rock, he had a chamois sculpture put on a piece of rock above the Sprudel - on purpose.

THE MILL SPRING

The neo-Renaissance stone colonnade by the foremost Czech architect Josef Zítek was built in 1871 to 1881. However, when it was opened, people did not have any praise words for it. They called it a bowling alley or an asparagus bed.

SPRUDEL SALT

SPA COSMETICS

MOSER GLASS | The crystal beauty of this world-famous glass has been part of Karlovy Vary since as early as 1857 when the gifted glass engraver Ludwig Moser founded an engraving workshop and a selling gallery here.

Spa visitors used to pass houses the Golden Gable, the Red House, Two Trout, the Diadem of the Golden Boat with a popular theatre café when walking in the town. In 1909 the town of Karlovy Vary bought all the houses and planned to build a modern spa house in their place.

The cornerstone of the St. Mary Magdalena Church was laid on the 27 April 1733.

BECHEROVKA The famous herbal liqueur has been spreading the fame of Karlovy Vary all around the world for more than two centuries.

THE KARLOVY VARY ROSE   Karlovy Vary curative springs are saturated with minerals. Through fast vaporization of water, they settle on all objects which come in contact with it.