West Bohemia

West Bohemia is a region in the Czech Republic.

Understand
This region along the Franconian, Saxon and Bavarian borders with the Czech Republic has had a lot of German influence throughout the existence of Austria-Hungary and before. After World War II most of the ethnically German inhabitants were expelled and the "Iron Curtain" ruptured many cross border links even as Czechoslovakia and the GDR ("East Germany") nominally called each other "socialist brother countries". With the end of the Cold War and the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union in 2004, this region became a lot more accessible from the west and tourism has benefited from it. Among the most notable towns are those that form the West Bohemian Spa Triangle, which was a retreat of the rich and the famous, throughout the 19th century and into the Belle Époque, who would consume and bathe in the mineral water emerging from countless springs in the area. After World War I, the aristocrats lost their power in most of Europe, and the new state of Czechoslovakia tried in vain to avert the decline of tourism in the Spa triangle. Even worse was World War II, when the area was annexed by Nazi Germany, under the infamous 1938 Munich Agreement, and later bombed by the Americans.

Do


Also, there are 14 golf courses in West Bohemia.

Stay safe
West Bohemia is a very safe region.

Go next

 * Central Bohemia
 * North Bohemia
 * South Bohemia