Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Karlovarske Kraj

Here's a much better view of Nadrazi Marianske Lazne, with its 19th-Century Austrian architecture. The station may have always been bigger than it needed to be, and today it's absolutely immense, not that that's a bad thing for the future, when oil prices will skyrocket.

My next trip was a natural follow-up to my Karlovy Vary trip. Both Karlovy Vary, or Carlsbad, and Marianske Lazne, or Marienbad, became popular tourist destinations in the 19th Century due to their mineral water springs, which were thought to have curative effects. If you're just interested in a city trip to see interesting buildings, Marianske Lazne may be the more interesting of the two cities, as its hotels and restaurants, most of which are of late 19th-and-early-20th-Century vintage represent some of the most attractive buildings of that period. This is the train station, of course, but here we only see the canopy (admittedly steam-era), and the train that I came on.