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Many visitors and guests take beautiful glass and porcelain products home with them from Karlovy Vary. The Moser glassworks started in 1857, and its products adorn the most beautiful table settings throughout the world.As a result of the high quality of the raw materials, the products of several porcelain works - notably those in Stara Role, Dvory, Loučky, Sadov, Chodov, Loket and Nova Role - have acquired an international reputation under the name "Karlovy Vary porcelain".The history of Karlovy Vary wafers goes back to 1640, when guests were offered the aromatic, light, crispy wafers as part of the treatment. At first they were home-made, but then there was a great expansion in manufacturing and they became a welcome gift from spa guests to their friends back home. The firm Phobos s r.o. - Cornia s r.o. Karlovy Vary manufactures genuine Karlovy Vary wafers according to the original recipe and without chemical additives.The typical Karlovy Vary souvenirs of petrified roses and various other petrified objects also receive great acclaim. Geyser water is a natural chemical solution in which the change of the physical-chemical conditions that occurs when the water comes up through the ground results in an accumulation of limestone sinter. The sinter accumulates on everything, and this is the origin of the so-called "petrified" souvenirs; various objects and roses impregnated with a greaseproofing agent are suspended beneath a shower of geyser water, and within seven to ten days they are covered with a crust of Karlovy Vary sinter - they are petrified.Becherovka, the Karlovy Vary herbal liqueur, is a well-known and popular Karlovy Vary speciality. Production started in 1805 in the pharmacy of the Becher family according to a recipe from the English physician Dr Frobrig given to his friend Josef Becher. Larger-scale production began in 1807.Karlovy Vary cosmetics, various toothpastes, bath additives, herbal preparations and so forth are manufactured in the factory Vridlo - vyrobni druzstvo. |
