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Karlovy Vary

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Karlovy Vary
Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The grandest of the Bohemian spa towns, part of the 'Great Spa Towns of Europe' UNESCO World Heritage Site, with ornate pastel buildings along a steep valley. Visitors stroll the colonnades sipping hot mineral water from special porcelain cups, from 13 springs; the Vřídlo geyser shoots up 12 m inside a hall.


Try the local liqueur, Becherovka, and spa wafers. The town hosts an international film festival in early July. It's about 2 hours by bus from Prague. Mariánské Lázně is another lovely spa town nearby.

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