Spa Slovakia

Spa regions in Slovakia are a gold mine for a tourist industry of the country. Nature hasn’t given Slovakia an outlet to the sea but it gave an opportunity to use groundwater which is flown practically in every part of the country.

Beginning from the 12-th century Slovak waters from mineral springs have been used to treat different ailments by healers and wise men of all denominations beginning from doctors of Hungarian kings to country old women.

When an enlightened 19-th century changed gloomy Middle Ages then the treatment using the waters in Slovakia was one of the predominant ones. In those times such resorts as Piestiany, Boinice, Shtrebske Pleso, Bardeiovske Kupele and others flourished. Nowadays each of them has an international level of quality service. Hundreds of hotels and sanatoriums offer different variants of rest beginning from traditional methods to exotic treatment in caves. A lot of Slovak resorts offer combined variants of organism invigoration using climatic and balneal qualities what considerably improves the effect of treatment.

By the way the service in Slovakia isn’t restricted to the water treatment only. A distinctive peculiarity of Slovak tourism is a big amount of aquaparks what makes Eastern Europe envy this country. Aqua parks in Slovakia combine treatment with an entertaining tourism. An aqua park Aquacity in Poprad and a gigantic complex Tatralandia in the town Liptovski Mikulash are widely known beyond the bounds of Slovakia.