On a warm June afternoon, we took a walk through the streets of Karlovy Vary. The otherwise bustling city full of tourists enjoying the atmosphere of the spa town became unusually, but pleasantly, calm. With a light breeze in our hair, we set off along the Moravská street, which stretches from east to west, slightly downhill. Almost at its end you will find two landmarks. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Magdalene, designed by Kilian Ignac Dietzenhofer in the 18th century and, behold, a painting of the Sistine Madonna by Rafael Santi, an Italian Renaissance painter, set in a frame made of twelve-carat gold. And here is where our story begins.

The impressive replica of a world-famous work of art set in a gold frame not only dominates the entire building, but also gave life to the KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA hotel. The four-star spa hotel KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA is located directly in the historical part and spa area of Karlovy Vary, only 100 metres from the Vřídlo spring. Thanks to the ideal location of the hotel, Karlovy Vary’s healing springs and beautiful colonnades are at your fingertips. The fact that the hotel is a certified non-governmental medical facility and is the first hotel in Karlovy Vary to receive the international EuropeSpa Med certification – a certificate of quality for spa and wellness hotels – confirms that you will be treated with angelic care. Hotel KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA has met all 1,500 strict criteria for obtaining the gold level of certification.

We are pleased to announce that in the 9th Czech Hotel Awards for the year 2020, thanks to the voices, you, our dear guests, lovers of quality accommodation, top spa services and excellent gastronomy, we have become the best 4* and the best SPA & WELLNESS hotel in the Karlovy Vary Region and have achieved gold positions in two categories. We appreciate these awards and thank you for your trust.

The outcome of the Czech Hotel Awards 2020 competition is a great reward for the hotel, its management and employees, but also a challenge and commitment to further improve the services provided.

Thank you for your favor! Please ontinue to use our attractive offers and become our regular guests!

Your KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA Spa & Wellness hotel

Czech Hotel Awards is a competition for the title of the most popular hotel in the Czech Republic. The competition is a showcase of Czech hotels offering the highest quality services and aims to map and highlight the best hotels in the Czech Republic. The awards for the Hotel of the Year are awarded for each region and Prague district. More information about the competition can be found at: www.hotelawards.cz

…last – fast – quick touch of experienced fingers glide over freshly embroidered cloth…… and ……. and there is nothing to fix…….?

……still, a few more millimeters, move the flowers closer to the cutlery……. and the angel slightly to the left……. Yes, this is it!

And one more polish soup spoon, fork and knife!

A bit of a hotel routine scenario when a photographer – a professional – comes to visit.

And now we can look forward to the fruits of our common and well-done work.

Joyful moments of viewing carefully crafted interiors and details are here:

And we are happy to see it and we are smiling…..it’s nice, it’s very nice……..

And suddenly………WAIT!!!……STOP!!!……BACK! What is it here?

I see a stain, we see all the tiny spots on the fork and the knife.

In disbelief and with eyes open wide, we stare at the cutlery where there are visible and clear spots.

It is not possible, with such care and love, we have prepared everything and as an reward we got spots?

Možná udělal chybu náš fotograf?

Co se to stalo?

Kdo to zavinil?

Pátrání po pachateli fleků je zahájeno!

Kdo za to může?

Kdo udělal chybu?

NONE STIINS – NO ERRORS – ONLY THE PERFECT WORK!

Simply abd clearly, when the KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA handles the cutlery, you will not only have a excellent cutlery in hand but also a beautiful mirror in which you can check – both curiously and positively – your sweet smile……

I APOLOGIZE TO THE SERVICE.

I apologize to the staff not only for the fact that I know that it impeccably polishes cutlery, but also promotes the function of elegant cutlery on a luxury personal mirror (by the way, the cutlery brand is SOLA)

Together with Oscar Wilde we call and confess:

„I WILL ONLY BE HAPPY WITH THE BEST.“

Yours faithfully Helena Jungmanová

The hotel entrance is artistically made and dominated by world famous painting

S I X T I N M A D O N N A
(Madona si San Sisto)

from the Renaissance painter Raffaela Santiho in their actual dimensions of the original image – 265 x 196 cm.
Work painted in years 1513 – 1514.

The original image can be seen in Zwinger gallery at Dresden (Gemelde Galerie Alte Meister) or you can see its copy at
KARLSBAD GRANDE MADONNA in Karlovy Vary.

Picture Author: Raffael Santi
Painted in years: 1513 – 1514
Dimensions: 265 x 196 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas
Location: Gemaelde Galerie Alte Meister Zwinger, Dresden

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The permanent guest of the Aura Palace, Olga Müller, in July 2016, wrote an article about our hotel in the newspaper “Neuze Zeiten”, where she shared her impressions.

The waiter explains to each guest that we only serve the best tradition-tested and world-famous brands of beer in our “U KŘIŽOVNÍKŮ” restaurant and WE WILL BET OUR LIVES ON THEM. Good meals, good drinks, a positive mentality, and most of all ice-cold beer in a HARMONIOUS AMBIANCE of the “U KŘIŽOVNÍKŮ” make sure there are more and more satisfied customers; they may not taste 100 types of beer but we hope they will pardon us that, because they feel AT HOME and they can return here as often and as comfortably as they return to their own HOMES.

We eagerly await your visit and looking forward to many returns!

Once again, we thank MOSCOW for the glowing and well-intentioned, if somewhat exaggerated, praise of our restaurant!

Your hotel, AURA PALACE

Karlovy Vary, June 2015

At 10:15 a.m. one fine morning, a woman entered our hotel’s restaurant in a rush, this guest – Mrs. JANA, came with her husband to the hotel for the first time and so called for a test… and mainly to rest, because they are both very tired and as they say, allways in a hurry…

She apologized profusely for being late and if she could still have breakfast. The breakfast waitress reassured her to sit down and calm down, to take her time and have a nice quiet breakfast. First of all, our breakfasts are until 10.30 am and you can “finish” until 11.00 am… no problem…

With confidence, Mrs Jana confides that she came straight from the Wellness, where she had a short warm-up infrared sauna followed by a massage. Suddenly she woke up on the couch and didn’t know if she was dreaming or if it was really the reality of the massage when she was so comfortable… The masseuse, who is used to the fact that guests often fall asleep under her hands and have a wonderful rest, assures Mrs. Jana in a low voice that her massage is just ending and slowly helps her up and leave, wishing her a nice day…

We, the employees of AURA PALACE Hotel and all our friends, are very proud of this accomplishment. We can thus guarantee all our guests that they are in GOOD HANDS and we will take care of them with our proverbial “ANGELIC CARE.”

A festive, relaxed, and informal atmosphere ruled the nice evening. Only after we had eaten and drunk everything were we able to believe that the impossible dream in the form of the EUROPESPA med certificate had become A REALITY.

Hotel AURA PALACE

Karlovy Vary, April 2015

Between December 2014 and March 2015, our hotel AURA PALACE installed the latest model of LG – LED televisions in our rooms.

These replaced our good old Czech brand TVs by ORAVA that served us flawlessly for 11 years, although it was a huge box with a wide back that occupied a place of honor on the shelf in front of the bed.

But the pressure to modernize is relentless, and even our TV models that I defended with a “confidence in the good old days” could no longer compete.

So finally I closed my eyes and ordered – REPLACEMENTS!