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A little monkey is not a big drunk, or the wine list of the hotel "At Archduke Charles"
Let not thirst be thy sorrow, for our cellars are full of barrels! This is how one can loosely translate the German rhyme from the wine list of the hotel "At Archduke Charles", which used to stand in today's Moravská Street just a short walk from Vřídlo. We found the wine menu of the local "Old German cellar" in the collection of Stanislav Burachovich and we want to share this charming archival relic. [...]
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Karel Čapek: Karlovy Vary on the threshold of the season
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Karel Čapek stayed together in Karlovy Vary 90 years ago. They worked on the famous "Talks with TGM". At that time, the town was struggling with the effects of the economic crisis and the tense international situation, which led to an outflow of spa guests.
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Here Vary 2024/25 | Subscription
This is Vary 2024/25. This is the movie season with subscription. We will bring you the festival atmosphere and 10 films in preview to Czech cinemas. Get a discounted subscription (3 of the 10 films will be free) and experience 10 movie nights between October 2024 and June 2025. Once a month you will walk the red carpet and enjoy a preview [...]
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The Imperial Spas took over the archival collection of the famous Karlovy Vary historian and patriot Dr. Stanislav Burachovič!
Hundreds of archive boxes and documents, thousands of maps, magazines and photographs and many unique regional monuments have been taken into the care of the Imperial Spas. At the request of the family of the late Dr. Burachovich, his life's historical work found a new home here. Last week, Mrs. Alena Burachovic signed the donation contract and the Imperial Spas are now beginning to work on the inventory and [...]
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Magnificent baths
At the time, the Imperial Spas were among the most modern facilities of their kind in the world. For the first time, a unique system of transporting prepared tubs of peat by means of lifts and internal pavilions to the baths themselves was used. It was even reported in the period press that the baths "miraculously emerge from the floor and after the bath are again just as miraculously [...]
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Karlovy Vary brewery
In the collection of Stanislav Burachovič we often come across charming prints. One of them is a view of the Karlovy Vary bourgeois brewery, which stood on the site of today's Imperial Spa since 1732. Even though the picture is idyllic and the summer beer garden is a real lure to sit in, the brewery was a thorn in the side of many Karlovy Vary townspeople. The tall smoking chimney right in the spa centre suggests why. Originally [...]