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Slovakia’s most successful alpine skier Veronika Zuzulová summarized her successful season at a press conference in hotel Balnea Esplanade Palace on Friday, March 28. In the beginning of the conference she accepted a present of a weekend voucher for a stay of two people from the general manager o...

At the annual conference “HORECA managment“, which was organised by the weekly magazine TREND from 12 to 13 February 2008 in Poprad, the spa hotel Thermia Palace received the classification of the second best hotel in Slovakia. With a competition of 161 best and most interesting Slovak hotels, T...

Last Sunday Piešťany became the center of attention in Slovakia when the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon arrived for a visit. He came to the spa during his leisure day. After being greeted by the minister of foreign affairs of the Slovak Republic Ján Kubiš, the general manage...

Come check out the new virtual tours available on our website. See the spa hotel Thermia Palace in all its beauty, or visit the Water and Sauna world of Balnea Esplanade Palace and other interesting places all on-line. The latest addition allows you to have a virtual experience on your computer scre...

On the first Friday of June Piešťany spa once again welcomed business partners from all over the world. In the morning owners and representatives of travel agencies had an opportunity to participate on presentations that took place in the Marianne salon in Balnea Esplanade hotel. After presentatio...

After more than thirty years Health Spa Piešťany renewed the tradition of rearing peacocks on the Spa Island. This happened only a month after the celebratory opening of the first 5-star hotel Thermia Palace.The story of a peacock became an inspiration for the builders of the hotel in 1910-1912. T...

Use our new tool for route planning! – find the easiest and most comfortable way to our Healthspa Piestany through the route planner VIA MICHELIN. You only have to type in the place of departure. For further information please click here ...

After the completion of the overall reconstruction of the five-star Thermia Palace hotel and its re-opening on December 20, 2006, Irma Health Spa, connected by a corridor with the Art-Nouveau hotel, started providing all available treatments. Its interiors were restored to highlight the beauty of in...

Alfons Mucha is the famous Art Nouveau painter.  In Piestany, which is about 1 hour away from Bratislava, Alfons Mucha’s painting entitled ‘Be greeted, the Blessed Spring of Health’ hangs serenely in the Grand restaurant of the five-star hotel Thermia Palace.  It was stolen seven years ago a...

On Wednesday December 20th, after nearly a year, the doors of the Thermia Palace hotel opened again for first spa guests, residents and visitors of Piešťany.  This exceptional hotel built in a unique architectural style - the height of Art Nouveau in Slovakia, is one the most beautiful and oldest...

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Health Spa Piešťany, a.s., and the town of Piešťany have decided to take another step towards strengthening their mutual relationship by cooperating on the renovation of the former pride of the town - hotel Slovan (formerly known as Grand Hotel Royal) and EVA Swimming Pool. The step was agreed u...

Restoring Their Grandeur and Elegance... Irma Health Spa Will Become a Center of Health and BeautyDownload article...

The first five-star spa hotel in Slovakia Thermia Palace will be characterized by a new logo with the central motive of a peacock. It was the hotel’s history and return to tradition which led the management of Health Spa Piešťany to make this choice. There is an old story about the healing power...

Complete reconstruction of the 1912 Art-Nouveau architectural gem Spa Hotel Thermia Palace and Irma balneotherapy center with their unique features represent the best of Slovak Art-Nouveau architecture. After complete reconstruction the hotel will be the only five-star spa hotel in Slovakia.Reconstr...

Health Spa Piešťany represented by its General Manager Klaus Pilz, the Slovak Olympic Committee lead by its president František Chmelár, and Slovak Olympic Marketing represented by its Board of Directors members Ing. Ľubor Štark a PaeDdr. Jozef Liba signed an agreement about long-term cooper...

The first June weekend in Piešťany was dedicated to the 15th annual Summer Spa Season Opening. This year, the event was supported by the European Union from its PHARE funds. Thanks to this financial boost and thanks to Health Spa Piešťany the town was able to prepare for its inhabitants and vi...

DISCOTHEQUE on the Spa island! 2nd of June, 2006, 20:00 hourSWIMMING POOL EVA, SPA ISLANDYou are welcome!ENTRANCE:80,- SKSale of tickets:  in the cash desk of the swimming pool...

Sunday, 4th of June 20069, 00 • Visit of the Spa Island and spa hotels• Salt cave – a unique combination of two therapeutic processes using natural iodized salt and thermal sulphurous mineral pool           Spa Napoleon - Mirror bath – thermal sulphurous pool bath with a temper...

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Health Spa Piešťany is currently working on the reconstruction of the historical Art-Nouveau Thermia Palace spa hotel as well as the historical Irma spa. We apologize for the partial closure of the road and the construction traffic which may disturb your walks from the Spa Island park to the Col...

The ringing bell signifies the small tourist train stopping on the Spa Island and in the town centre. It started working on a regular schedule in Piešťany this season on 15th April again. The locomotive and two passenger wagons have a capacity for 48 people. The track starts from the Colonnade B...

I would like to thank Ms. Monika Selecká, Manager of the Golf Course Piešťany and her team for organizing the First PIWC Indoor Golf and Lunch Afternoon. The women really enjoyed themselves and we will organize another group to come to the driving range once the Golf Course opens in April.  Man...

Spa Piešťany preparing a rich and fun Easter program for its guests.The two Slovak traditions of šibačka and oblievačka – (lightly) whipping women with wicker whips and dousing them with water – are more symbolic than real nowadays, but Easter eggs remain a permanent symbol of the season an...

The Piešťany International Women’s Club, whose president is Dr. Colette Zaharie-Lukan, organizes more interesting events each time, creating a favourable name for the club and its supporters. Thanks to the support of the general director of Spa Piešťany, Mr. Klaus Pilz, the club members enjoye...

Press Release, February 2nd, 2006 Slovak Health Spa Piešťany, Inc., and the Austria based company AST Baugesellschaft mbH represented by its Slovak subsidiary AST Slovakia, s. r. o., Bratislava, have February 1st, 2006 signed a contract for the reconstruction of the Art Nouveau hotel Thermia Palac...

The population of Piestany as well as visiting guests are showing a growing interest in the relaxation treatments provided on our Spa island. Due to this growing interest Spa Piestany has begun to sell treatment programs from our information center on Winterova street. It is possible to purchase the...

BEMER 3000 device generates specific electromagnetic field impulses in accordance to patent of Prof. Wolf A. Kafka. Curative effects are achieved by amounts very similar to natural earth‘s geomagnetic field we all live in. Therefore this therapy has no contraindications and it is very beneficial...

The year 2006 will be a memorable for the nearly one hundred year-old hotel Thermia Palace. It will undergo general reconstruction this year, and will be closed from January 15. This full reconstruction was approved by the Board of Directors of Piešťany Spa at their meeting on December 15, 2005. T...

Book tells tales of maharajahs in PiešťanyMaharajas at PiešťanyWritten by:Andrej BolerázskyPublished by:Balneological Museum, PiešťanyPrice: Sk140 Available: http://www.balneomuzeum.sk/ (Piešťany spa)A NON-FICTION book on the visits to Piešťany by the maharajahs of India in the 1930s m...

Die Weihnachtsstimmung und das NeujahrsfestNeue Behandlungen – Weihnachtsgeschenk für SieDas Weihnachtspäckchen – die Anmut unter den Weihnachtsbaum >>> 1.912 Sk>>> Aroma-Perlbad mit Wiesenblumen >>> Ölmassage gegen Zellulitis (25 Min.)>>> Parafangopackung des Dekolletes und Nackens >>> Knei...

Piešťany after the SEI summit,  24th and 25th of November 2005, PiešťanyOver the 24th and 25th of November 2005, Piešťany Spa was the location for the summit of government chairmen of the Central European Initiative countries (SEI). We welcomed 11 prime ministers, 6 government ministers and a...

The summit of Prime Ministers from countries of the Central European Initiative 24. – 25. 11. 2005Special offer for journalists Spa Piestany invite you to the mud pool in Irma Spa house after its reconstruction in 2004 to try the unique treatment for free. Piestany Spa's mud pool has a uniqueness ...

On November 23-25 a Belarusian delegation will take part in the Economic Forum of the Central European Initiative (CEI) in Bratislava (Slovakia) and the CEI Summit of Heads of Government in Piestany, BelTA has been told in the foreign ministry’s press service. Deputy prime minister Andrei Kobyakov...

Place: SPA PIEŠŤANY, Spa Island The Central European Initiative (CEI) is composed of 17 Member States: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukrain...

Legendary Portuguese footballer Eusebio da Silva Ferreira arrived in Piešťany in the afternoon of 23rd October during his four-day stay in Slovakia hosted by Slovak foreign affairs minister, Eduard Kukan. After a busy programme including a press conference, interviews with journalists, and partici...

Klaus Pilz (42) was appointed General Manager of Slovak Health Spa Piešťany on 19 September 2005. He was  born in Vienna. In 1986 he graduated from the Institute of Tourism and Travel at the Economic University in Vienna. He supplemented his hotel management education by studying at Gustav Kä...

A group of representatives from Belgium visited Piešťany Spa at the end of August. They were led by Adriana Lehotská, Commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Belgium. The visit to Piešťany Spa took place due to the cooperation of the Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic...

A Spa Experience in PiestanyBy Marcus Vaz & Kathy LongleyLegend has it, that in 1642, natives of what is now Slovakia observed a peacock “miraculously” heal its broken leg by sitting in the hot mud of a thermal spring. Thus was born the spa town of Piestany.A few centuries later, following in th...

The ringing bell signifies the small tourist train stopping on the Spa Island and in the town centre. It started working on a regular schedule in Piešťany on 20th August, and there is great interest in riding it among both visitors and spa guests. The train will continue running up to 31st October...

We invite you on a very interesting concert, which will take part in House of Art on 6- th of September at 7:30 p.m. The concert is organized by company named Bach in cooperation  with Town Hall Piešťany, House of Art and French Institute in Bratislava. Performers: Francois Saint-Yves (1971 Caen)...

Spa Piešťany provides more than 55 spa treatmentsThe basic types of massages, which were supplemented with new methods and approaches, were enlarged with new refreshing and energizing relaxation massages and special reflex massages. Use this special offer – there is a mirror pool (thermal minera...

"I will not sell Piešťany even though I am not happy with it yet”, says the owner of Piešťany Spa Sir Bernard SchreierHe is exceptionally wealthy. According to the British newspaper The Sunday Times, the property of Sir Bernard Schreier and his family is valued at approximately GBP 215 million...

The innovation in the offer of Piešťany Spa, which can variegate and enrich your spa stay: 10 new specialised massages including the refreshing and energizing de Luxe massages, revitalising and relaxation aromatic massage, Swedish warming massage and oil massage against cellulite.Reserve the stay ...

Microclimatic iodine salt cave is made of natural sea salt from the Red, Dead, Baltic and Black Sea. In the succession wtih thermal mineral pool enables the unique effect of two therapeutic procedures, using the natural iodine salt and thermal sulphurous mineral waters. 45-minute stay in the salt ca...

Hotel Balnea Esplanade – water and sauna world ideal for relaxation: jacuzzi gargoyle solarium water deckchairs with jets wall with massage jets relax zone with aqua bar Blanquet infra sauna, Finnish sauna steam bath cooling poolOPEN:pools + solarium – daily: 6 a.m. – 9 p.m.saunas – Monday �...

There will be held the jubilee XVth congress of the Company for physiatry, balneology and medical therapeutic rehabilitation (FBLR) on 6th – 7th May in Piešťany spa.The main organizers are Slovak medical society, Company FBLR and Slovak therapeutic spa Piešťany under the patronage of the Gen...

SLOVAKIA: Feel the Ooze: Thermal Spas, Mud and MoreBy Gary LeeWASHINGTON POST, March 20, 2005I started my first afternoon in Slovakia blanketed in mature homogenized sediment, otherwise known as mud. Jan, a white-jacketed attendant, spread the 113-degree, buttery substance on a bed and motioned for ...

Experiencing something once is better than hearing or reading about it one hundred times. This well-known axiom has become the key slogan for the activities of the HC. There are a variety of experiences waiting for you:Slovak Health Spa Piešťany (distance from Bratislava - 85 km on a highway)Pie...

We are pleased to inform that Spa Piešťany will have a new salt cave from February. The salt cave creates a special environment similar to the seaside area and it is very special healing place for people suffering from respiratory problems.The cave is built from natural blocks of sea salt from Red...

New golf indoor centre has been opened in Balnea Grand hotel on the Spa Island:2 x golf simulator Full Swing (from 125 Sk per hour)Putting areaNIce golf barCafe, restaurantGolf shopGolf equipment rentalAvailable for company gatheringsOpened daily till 11 p.m.www.spagolf.sktel.: +421 – 33 – 775 4...