The hall in the Imperial Spa won an award in the Interior of the Year competition

Perfmormance - a movement performance by students of the Department of Nonverbal Theatre at HAMU depicting the distinctive atmosphere of the place and the relaxing unique atmosphere of spa life. It would be a shame if you missed this great performance, so we share with you a recording of it... 📹 ESSENCE OF PLACE - CISSARY SPA: KRISTÝNA BŘESKÁ AND ANNA ŠEFRNOVÁ

The landmark year of 1989 was much more blurred in Karlovy Vary than elsewhere in the country. Long before the revolution, communism shook hands with capitalism here. One such case was the casino in Císařské lázně, which opened in June 1988. The Communist Party-run country in the late 1980s was in desperate need of Western marks, shillings and dollars. Lubomír Štrougal's cabinet therefore made contacts [...]

"Again and again Karlovy Vary manages to put me in a daze of the senses, when I see not only what is, but also what could be and what is hidden behind the curtain. When I see everything that is hidden as if by magic. It is perhaps the miracle of the healing springs, which even modern science has failed to capture and describe sufficiently in its fragility [...]

More than seven months after its opening, the Imperial Spa are still in the public and media spotlight, which we are very happy about. This week we were visited by Mr. Václav Žmolík from the Czech Radio Two and he and our colleague Miloš Bělohlávek toured all the interesting places and corners of the spa building for the After the Czech Republic programme. If you [...]

The Karlovy Vary Region has already won several awards for the Císařské lázně in the short time since its opening: 🏆 Newly added to the valuable collection of awards are the prizes from the Construction of the Karlovy Vary Region 2023 competition In the category of Construction: 1st place Císařské lázně - concert hall, 2nd place Revitalization of the Císařské lázně building The prize of the magazine Stavebnictví: Císařské lázně - concert hall [...]

One of two monumental paintings by the Carlsbad painter Wilhelm Schneider hangs in the men's lounge, which was formerly used for the rest of the men's guests after their baths. The artist captured famous visitors to Karlovy Vary in 1914. This canvas, depicting spa guests from 1791 to 1914, gives pride of place to the then Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. [...]