The largest Carlsbad colonnade built in stone in the pseudo-Renaissance style was opened in 1881 and covers five mineral springs. The attic of the colonnade is supplemented by allegorical statues representing the individual months of the year. In the past, it has been compared, for example, to a carrot bed.

This decorated cast iron colonnade is the last remnant of the concert and restaurant hall called “Blanenský pavilion”, built between 1880 and 1881, according to the project of famous Viennese architects, Fellner and Helmer. Since 2001, Snake Spring has emerged here.

The white wooden colonnade from the architects Fellner and Helmer was originally a temporary property. This has lasted for over 130 years and the beauty of the richly carved Swiss-style building with the pillar arcade and the saddle roof hasn’t diminished. Interesting is the relief of Charles IV showing the legend of the city founding.

Hot Spring is the largest and most outstanding healing spring of Karlovy Vary and has been covered with many buildings since the 16th century: the Baroque building, the Empire Colonnade, cast iron or temporary wooden colonnade. Today, it is surrounded by construction from 1970’s by architect Jan Otruba, although there are attempts to return the look of the cast iron from 1879.

The Castle Colonnade was opened in 1913. It’s divided into two parts. The Upper Spring Colonnade is freely accessible to the public and covers the Castle Upper Spring. The Lower Spring Colonnade is accessible only to Castle spa clients, but the Lower Castle Spring is also brought to the public at the Market Colonnade.

The temple was built in a Baroque style between 1732 and 1736 by the famous architect, Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer. The church is architecturally dominant in the Karlovy Vary spa colonnade. You can see it daily, not only during times of worship. Visitors can also visit the underground of the church with a unique funeral chapel.

This architectural gem can be found in a street called Krále Jiřího. It was built according to the Byzantine-Old-Russian temple in Ostankino near Moscow. The necessary funding to build the church was acquired thanks to a collection among wealthy Serbian and Russian spa clientele and nobility.

The Gallery is a professional facility that has been preserving, redefining and showing the 20th century Czech art in permanent expositions since 1953 in the Karlovy Vary spa and its region. It’s also devoted to publishing and educational activities. The short-term exhibitions programme mainly follows contemporary artistic events by Czech authors.

The museum is housed in the Baroque house of Zlatý klíč (Golden Key) on Nová louka (New Meadow). Today, it’s a modern information and research centre for documentation related to Karlovy Vary spa and Karlovy Vary’s historical monuments. The museum takes care of applied art collections – glass, porcelain, furniture, textiles and works from the Karlovy Vary rifles and glass cutters.

The Jan Becher Museum is directly on the site of the former Steinberk factory, where Becherovka has been for more than a hundred years. The original factory was built by founder Jan Becher in 1867. During the tour you can visit some of the original cellars and taste some specialities from the museum bar. You can buy Becherovka in the shop.

The local hill with a magnificent view overlooking the spa town was discovered for tourism by the Karlovy Vary knight, Václav Drumm. The time guides have promoted this place throughout the 19th century as the best city outlook. The cableway was built on top of the hill in 1909. A modern electric elevator was also part of the brick lookout tower.

The suggestion to build a lookout tower on the Hill of Eternal Life over Karlovy Vary was made by the Belgian princess Stefanie, the wife of the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg, who was impressed by the local view during one of her walks to the spa town. A route leads through the hillside to the lookout tower. Since 1957, the lookout has been called Goethe’s lookout.

Probably the oldest sightseeing building in the spa town is a wooden bower on a rock cluster at Jelení skok (Dee Jump) directly above the centre of Karlovy Vary. The bower was built here in 1804 by Mayer, rich Viennese merchant and a man who was native to Karlovy Vary. The bower is complemented by a wooden railing between the columns and benches.

Around 1640, three great wooden crosses, a symbol of the Bible Golgotha, were erected on the top of the Three-Cross Hill as an expression of the successful re-Catholicising of the city. The concrete channel of the cabin lift under reconstruction, the foundations of the upper station and the torsion of other buildings have been preserved in the area. In 2000, a wooden gazebo was built in front of the Three Crosses on the roof of the post-war concrete military observatory.

The pseudo-gothic brick lookout tower in the form of a minaret with two lookout galleries was built as a copy of the lookout tower in northern Schleswig. The lookout tower served as a gazebo and became very popular among the visitors to the spa immediately after its opening. Fireworks at various celebrations have been used from the lookout tower’s first gallery.