Mariánské Lázně

A colonnaded Bohemian resort with more than a hundred springs.

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Bathing: Indoor
Accommodation: Hotel on site

Mariánské Lázně grew in the early nineteenth century around an extraordinary concentration of cold mineral springs — over a hundred within the town and its woods. Its cast-iron colonnade of 1889 and the Singing Fountain are the centre of a cure built on drinking, gas baths and mud, in a valley of forested slopes and Belle Époque hotels.

The water

Thermal water

Source: Křížový and Rudolfův springs
Mineralisation: Cold, strongly carbonated mineral waters
Character: More than a hundred cold mineral springs, drunk from the colonnade; carbon-dioxide gas baths on site.

Practical information

Free to drink from the colonnade taps and the Cross Spring pavilion; treatments run through the spa hotels. Also UNESCO-listed as part of the Great Spa Towns of Europe.