Notable Memorials and Monuments

This collection highlights memorials, statues and monuments across Karlovy Vary, from commemorative plaques and composer statues to a Baroque Trinity (plague) column and a twentieth-century civic memorial to victims of National Socialism. Entries include sculptural depictions of Goethe, Smetana, Beethoven and Gagarin, a historic pedestrian street named for T. G. Masaryk, and distinctive markers such as the Birnbaum (wild pear) of Drahovice.