Karlovy Vary
The sumptuous 18th-century Pupp covers nearly the whole of the spa's southern end and oozes old-world glamour. It was featured in the James Bond film Casino Royale and inspired Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. These days it's a budget-blower, but worth the splurge if you can snag one of the rooms in period style (you have to ask).
Even if you're not staying here, take a peek inside; the restaurants are very good, and the historic atmosphere is perfect.
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The Hot Spring Colonnade is in an incongruous concrete-and-glass functionalist structure built in 1975 and once dedicated to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin鈥
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The most impressive piece of architecture in Karlovy Vary is the neo-Renaissance Mill Colonnade (built 1871鈥81), with five different springs, rooftop鈥
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The village's impressive castle was built on the site of an earlier Romanesque fort, of which the only surviving bits are the tall square tower, and鈥
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The cast-iron Colonnade, built in neo-baroque style in 1889, is the spa's visual centrepiece. Classical and brass-band concerts are performed here two or鈥
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The Singing Fountain sashays to coloured lights and recorded music 鈥 anything from Dvo艡谩k to Celine Dion 鈥 every two hours on the odd hour, with the last鈥
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This hilltop lookout tower affords fine views across Karlovy Vary and the surrounding forested hills, and is the starting point for waymarked hikes鈥
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Karlovy Vary's most important Catholic church and one of its grandest baroque buildings, this imposing, twin-steepled structure in the heart of the spa鈥
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Also known as the Garden Colonnade, this elegant wrought-iron structure dates from 1880 and is the first of the main colonnades that you reach as you鈥
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Just beside (to the north of) the Grandhotel Pupp, a narrow alley leads to the bottom station of the Diana Funicular Railway, which climbs 166m to great鈥
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The Karlovy Vary Museum has extensive exhibits on the town's development as a spa resort, Czech glasswork and the region's natural history.
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This hilltop lookout tower affords fine views across Karlovy Vary and the surrounding forested hills, and is the starting point for waymarked hikes鈥
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The Hot Spring Colonnade is in an incongruous concrete-and-glass functionalist structure built in 1975 and once dedicated to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin鈥
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Karlovy Vary's most important Catholic church and one of its grandest baroque buildings, this imposing, twin-steepled structure in the heart of the spa鈥
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The only one of the town's colonnades to be crafted from wood, this beautiful neoclassical structure dates from the 1880s and was the work of the fabled鈥
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This impressive Orthodox Church, with five polished onion domes and art-nouveau exterior murals, was apparently modelled after a similar church near鈥
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The most impressive piece of architecture in Karlovy Vary is the neo-Renaissance Mill Colonnade (built 1871鈥81), with five different springs, rooftop鈥