HISTORY
Hotel Savoy Westend is situated in the most prestigious district of Karlovy Vary called “Westend”. This unique villa district went through a boom mainly at the beginning of the 90s in the 19th century after the overall economic and construction development of the town – in the Classicism and Empire spirits first, later in the style of Romanticism. In the peak stage of the construction development of this architectonic masterpiece of Karlovy Vary different construction styles can be found there from Novo-gothic and Novo-romantic to the clean Novo-renaissance. Hotel Savoy Westend was built in 1897 based on a project of the Vienna architect Alfred Bayer and its name was obtained to honor the Savoy dynasty in the reunited Italy. The present spa resort Savoy Westend Hotel is a site of five historic villas. The villa Artemis (former villa Stainl, then Milton and Pöhl) is the oldest one, built in 1875 by the master-builder Anton Stainl. The construction of other three villas took place in 1895 through 1897 which were interconnected into one site at the beginning of the 20th century – villa Rusalka (former villa Klemm) built for the court master-builder D. A. Klemm, the villa Carlton (former villa Kennsington) built upon a project of the town master-builder Josef Waldert, and villa Kleopatra carrying the same name until these days. The main and most prestigious building of the whole resort is villa Savoy (the original building of Savoy Westend Hotel) the architectonic composition of which draws from a design of the Gothic and Renaissance aristocratic family residences in France.
The whole site underwent a thorough and costly reconstruction between the years 2004 and 2005, and was opened to the public in its new looks in June 2005.
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