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Cheb
Town in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

Cheb

Cheb is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

It has about 33,000 inhabitants. The town is located on the Ohře River.

Get in

Getting to Cheb

Direct buses run from Prague (150 Kč, 3 hours, 4 daily), Karlovy Vary (56 Kč, 1 hour, 7 daily), Mariánské Lázně (40 Kč, 30 minutes, 12 daily).

  1. 01
    Cheb Station

    Built in the 19th century by several German rail companies and run in cooperation until the end of WWII when Czechoslovak and later Czech authorities took over.

See

Worth seeing

Museums and galleries:

  1. 01
    Cheb Museum

    9am-5pm, closed Sun & Mon.

  2. 02
    Art centrum Galerie 4
  3. 03
    Gallery of fine arts in Cheb
  4. 04
    Cheb Castle

    Features the biggest Romanesque chapel in Bohemia.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Kartarena

    Annual jazz festival, held around October.

  2. 02
    Chebská

    One of the paths is the "Magic Forest", with educational board about the history of Cheb and its surroundings.

Eat

Where to eat

Pizzerie Jakubská, Restaurace u Blonďáka, Jakubska 1,. Pizza: 80-120 Kč. Pizzeria Da Angelo, Jateční 18.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.