Tips for trips to surroundings:
Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) – 50 km from Mariánské Lázně. The biggest spa of the Czech Republic. The most importent is the Hotspring which temperature is 72oC. You can visit some colonades, dring the hot springs or shop (the liqueur Becherovka, wafers, porcelain or Moser glass.
Kladská – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. Northely from Mariánské Lázně is situated the natural reservation Kladská. You can také a walk through the local instructional path, which is 1,3 km long and open to public all year round. In the past the English king Edward VII. used to come here.
The Monastery Teplá – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. This monastery was founded in the 12th century by Hroznata. The history of the monastery is closely connected with the history of Mariánské Lázně - Mariánské Lázně was founded in the 19th century by monastery Teplá. The monastery belongs to the Premostratensians even in the present time and you can find here lots of memories on Hroznata´s period. Among other historical buildings we should mention The Church of Annunciation of Our Lady from 1197 – 1232. It is a late-roman building with a basilica. The monastery´s library was built in 1902 and it contains almost 100.000 books, where the oldest one dates to the 9th century.
Castle Kynžvart – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. The oldish baroque property was rebuild in years 1820 – 1833 for the chancellor Klement Václav Lothar prince von Metternich-Winneburg. The castle is a sporadic representative residence in vienna´s clasicism and empire style. The prince Metternich (1773 – 1859) was an Austrian public chancellor and a prominent figure of the european political scene in the first half of the 19th century. A large quantily of art objects, collections of coins, medals, china, weapons and renowned chancellor´s library with unique manuscripts and first-prints were collected in Kynžvart during his life here.
Castle Bečov nad Teplou – 23 km from Mariánské Lázně. The castle was founded in the 13th century. On the highest point of the rock there is the gothic castle, which was enriched with the stone portals and wall paintings during the renaissance reconstruction. Below the castle there stands chateau from the 18th century, which has already the renaissance core. The excursion including visit of the castle, the chapel, library, the expositions in the castle and the garden of the castle.
Plzeň (Pilsen) – 70 km from Mariánské Lázně. The metropole of the western Bohemia, comercial, cultural and social centre of the region, with the industrial gigant SKODA and above all the world-known brewery Pilsner Urquell. Just the visit of the beer museum with beer tasting and the real Czech kitchen tasting in the biggist alehouse „Na Spilce“ belongs to unforgerable experiances.
Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) – 50 km from Mariánské Lázně. The biggest spa of the Czech Republic. The most importent is the Hotspring which temperature is 72oC. You can visit some colonades, dring the hot springs or shop (the liqueur Becherovka, wafers, porcelain or Moser glass.
Kladská – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. Northely from Mariánské Lázně is situated the natural reservation Kladská. You can také a walk through the local instructional path, which is 1,3 km long and open to public all year round. In the past the English king Edward VII. used to come here.
The Monastery Teplá – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. This monastery was founded in the 12th century by Hroznata. The history of the monastery is closely connected with the history of Mariánské Lázně - Mariánské Lázně was founded in the 19th century by monastery Teplá. The monastery belongs to the Premostratensians even in the present time and you can find here lots of memories on Hroznata´s period. Among other historical buildings we should mention The Church of Annunciation of Our Lady from 1197 – 1232. It is a late-roman building with a basilica. The monastery´s library was built in 1902 and it contains almost 100.000 books, where the oldest one dates to the 9th century.
Castle Kynžvart – 12 km from Mariánské Lázně. The oldish baroque property was rebuild in years 1820 – 1833 for the chancellor Klement Václav Lothar prince von Metternich-Winneburg. The castle is a sporadic representative residence in vienna´s clasicism and empire style. The prince Metternich (1773 – 1859) was an Austrian public chancellor and a prominent figure of the european political scene in the first half of the 19th century. A large quantily of art objects, collections of coins, medals, china, weapons and renowned chancellor´s library with unique manuscripts and first-prints were collected in Kynžvart during his life here.
Castle Bečov nad Teplou – 23 km from Mariánské Lázně. The castle was founded in the 13th century. On the highest point of the rock there is the gothic castle, which was enriched with the stone portals and wall paintings during the renaissance reconstruction. Below the castle there stands chateau from the 18th century, which has already the renaissance core. The excursion including visit of the castle, the chapel, library, the expositions in the castle and the garden of the castle.
Plzeň (Pilsen) – 70 km from Mariánské Lázně. The metropole of the western Bohemia, comercial, cultural and social centre of the region, with the industrial gigant SKODA and above all the world-known brewery Pilsner Urquell. Just the visit of the beer museum with beer tasting and the real Czech kitchen tasting in the biggist alehouse „Na Spilce“ belongs to unforgerable experiances.
