Between the Krusne mountains and the Ceske stredohori, below Doubravska mountain. The area was already inhabited in prehistoric times, later by Celts, Marcomanns and Quads. Spa town. The first written mention of the local thermal springs dates from 762. The spa was visited, for example, by emperors Joseph II. and Leopold II, Ludwig van Beethoven met Johann Wolfgang Goethe here. Diseases of the cardiovascular, musculoskeletal and nervous systems are mainly treated here.