Church of Mary Magdalene

Karlovy Vary


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 dates from the 1730s and is the work of baroque master Kilian Dientzenhofer, the architect of St Nicholas Church in Prague's Malá Strana. The crypt contains an underground altar and an ossuary containing the bones from the 18th-century graveyard that once surrounded the church.


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1. Hot Spring Colonnade

0.03 MILES

The Hot Spring Colonnade is in an incongruous concrete-and-glass functionalist structure built in 1975 and once dedicated to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin…

2. Market Colonnade

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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…

3. Mill Colonnade

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The most impressive piece of architecture in Karlovy Vary is the neo-Renaissance Mill Colonnade (built 1871–81), with five different springs, rooftop…

4. Karlovy Vary Museum

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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.

5. Diana Funicular Railway

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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…

6. Park Colonnade

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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…

7. Church of Sts Peter & Paul

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8. Diana Lookout Tower

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