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“There isn’t any more beautiful place on this planet”, such words could be heard very often. The English King Edward VII said them, the American inventor T.A. Edison wrote them into the Golden Book of the town, Franz Kafka paid tribute to the beauties of nature here with symbolism so typical of him (about the Chinese philosophy). Mariánské Lázně was visited by Mark Twain, R. Kipling , I.S. Turgeniev, J. Strauss and other personalities. The town owns entirely personal charm with the help of surrounding forests and healthy air. Modernisation and reconstruction of buildings and medical equipment ranks Mariánské Lázně among the important Spas of the world.