Grandhotel Pupp Spa Carlsbad

Grandhotel Pupp Karlovy Vary is the grandest and most celebrated hotel of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), the world-famous UNESCO-listed spa city of western Bohemia where twelve alkaline hot springs emerge along the Teplá River in a stunning setting of wooded hills and elegant colonnaded spa architecture. Built in 1701 and expanded in 1893 to its current palatial neo-baroque form, the Pupp has hosted royalty, composers (Beethoven, Paganini, Brahms), writers (Goethe, Schiller), and film stars (the hotel appeared as Casino Royale in the 2006 James Bond film), embodying the cosmopolitan glory of the European spa tradition at its most opulent. The bicarbonate and calcium-rich thermal spring waters, dispensed for drinking cures in elegant colonnaded pump rooms (kolonády) along the Teplá promenade, are part of a long thermal tradition that continues to attract thousands of international guests annually. Karlovy Vary's exceptional ensemble of Art Nouveau and neo-baroque spa architecture, mountain promenades, and continuous drinking cure tradition makes it one of Europe's most extraordinary and best-preserved spa city environments.