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The Mill Colonnade, called also Zatek's Colonnade, is the largest Carlsbad colonnade and one of the symbols of the town.It was built according to a project by Josef Zatek, an architect, whose bust is placed near The Mill Spring, in the years 1871 - 1881. The New Renaissance Style building is 132 meters long and 13 meters wide.It covers five springs - The Mill Spring, The Rock Spring, The Libuse's,...
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The Park Colonnade was built from cast-iron prefabricated elements in 1881. It was a part of concert hall and park restaurant - called The Blanenska Pavilion, which was designed by Vienna architects Fellner and Helmer. The Colonnade functioned as a promenade connecting The Park Spring springing in the basement of Military Balneal Institute, with the concert hall. Nowadays, The Park Colonnade has s...
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A wooden building in the Swiss Style was finished in 1993 as a replica of the original Market Colonnade by architects Fellner and Helmer from 1883.The original one was built as a makeshift in place of the old Carlsbad town hall from 1520.The Spring of Charles IV springs in The Market Colonnade under a metal relief with motive of the Spring Discovery. Charles IV, the founder of the town, healed his...
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The Secession Style Castle Colonnade fills the space between The Castle Tower (Zamecky vrch) and The Market Colonnade. Today it is an undistinguished complex of buildings formed by the Upper Castle Spring Pavilion, by adjacent premise of the older colonnade and by the Secession Style building by Fridrich Ohman from 1911 - 1913, which was originally built as a site around The Lower Castle Spring.In...
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From 1774 till 1820s, a Baroque bath building stood over The Hot Spring, which was replaced by an Empire Style Colonnade in 1826. From 1879 to 1939, the visitors could have admired a cast-iron colonnade built according to design by architects Fellner and Helmer. Sculptures of Hygia and D. Becher by A. Fernkorn were added to the building. In 1935 the Colonnade was replaced by so-called first woode...
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