Alžbětiny Lázně [Elizabeth Spa]
The grandest of Karlovy Vary's bathhouses, still offering classic Bohemian spa treatment.
Balnevia
- Bathing
- Indoor
Opened in 1906 and named for Empress Elisabeth, Lázně V is the largest surviving bathhouse in Karlovy Vary, with mineral baths, peat wraps, carbon-dioxide baths and a colonnaded pool hall.
Balnevia view
Why visit
To take the Bohemian spa cure as it was designed: mineral water inside and out, in a town of colonnades and drinking cups.
The water
Thermal water
- Source
- Vřídlo (Hot Spring) system
- Mineralisation
- Sodium bicarbonate-sulphate-chloride
- Character
- Twelve springs from a single source, drunk as well as bathed in
Facilities
- Thermal pools
- Indoor pools
- Sauna
- Spa treatments
- Accessibility
History
Karlovy Vary was founded around its hot springs by Charles IV in the fourteenth century and became the definitive Central European spa town of the nineteenth.
Practical information
Treatments are booked individually; the swimming pool can be visited without a full spa package.
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Getting there
Two hours by bus from Prague; the bathhouse sits in Smetana Gardens near the Mill Colonnade.
Location
Recommendations
Mineral bath and pool entry
Classic Bohemian treatment
Carbon-dioxide bath, peat wrap or pool access in the 1906 bathhouse.
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Colonnade district
Nineteenth-century houses along the river and the colonnades.
Spring-to-spring walking tour
Twelve springs, two hours
Walk the colonnades with a porcelain cup and taste each source.
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