Františkovy Lázně belongs to the world famous spa towns. Together with Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně forms the famous “Westbohemian Spa Triangle “. The town is located 450 m above the see level in a mild submountain climate. There are 22 cold mineral springs, gaseous spring of carburetted hydrogen and rich peatbog. Lot of green parks are perfect for walking or having a rest. The town offers also many restaurants, cafés and patisseries.

The name of Doktor Bernhard Adler is closely connected with the foundation of the spa town. The doctor was well aware of the healing power of the acidulous waters and therefore he ordered the spring to be cleaned. To protect it he had a simple wooden pavilion built over it leading the water out, via piping, into a tank. But the women of Cheb took this as an attack on their right to draw these waters straight from the spring and on 18 April 1791 they flattened the pavilion to the ground. The rebellion impelled Dr Adler to seek the help of Emperor Leopold II in Prague who granted the doctor’s request for the restoration of the pavilion. A committee was set up to solve the issue of the hygiene of the spring and the drawing of the waters, and it also came up with the proposal to establish a spa town here. The first plan for the new spa town was created by the clergyman Tobiáš Gruber, who was a doctor in Bílina. Emperor František I. approved the foundation of the spa down in a decree of 27 April 1793 and “Ves Císaře Františka” or “Kaiser Franzensdorf” (Emperor František’s Village), known since 1807 as “Lázně Františka Josefa”, or “Kaiser Franzensbad” (František Josef’s Spa) came into existence. In the same year the pavilion for František’s Spring and a Community Centre were constructed and by the end of 1749 ten more buildings came into being, mostly around the future Národní třída street.

Blood vessel and cardiac diseases, mobile disables, as well as woman illnesses are treated in Františkovy Lázně.

Among the renowned personalities, who visited Františkovy Lázně, belong Emperor Franz I, poets Goethe and Schiller, composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Strauss, Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda and many other.