Karlovy Vary Region: 8 places worth a day trip

A Sokolov microbrewery named after the permoník, the mining spirit of the Ore Mountains, brewing lagers and wheat beers.

A castle on a rock in a tight bend of the Ohře, once called the key to the Kingdom of Bohemia.

The largest Czech spa town, listed in 2021 among the Great Spa Towns of Europe. A dozen hot springs feed the colonnades, ending with the Vřídlo geyser at about 73 °C.

Around a hundred mineral springs rise in and around the town; its centrepiece is the cast-iron colonnade of 1889 and the Singing Fountain. UNESCO since 2021.

A planned spa town of yellow Empire houses laid out in 1793 around the Františkův spring. UNESCO since 2021.

The world's first radon spa, opened in 1906 with water from the local uranium mines – the same ore from which Marie Curie isolated radium.

A quiet children's spa in the Slavkov Forest, below the chateau of chancellor Metternich.

A mofette landscape where carbon dioxide bubbles up through mud and mineral springs, a rare trace of volcanic activity.