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Piešťany Spa owes its reputation mainly to its unique natural springs of thermal mineral water, which rise from a depth of over 2,000 metres. These springs bring to our waters many specific chemical compounds and energy from the earths depths. This water is the main factor in the formation of our incomparable healing curative sulphur mud. It is a uniquely peculiar peloid which is the result of long-term reactions of thermal water with local soft rocks and specific bacterial micro flora. 
Thermal mineral water The unique thermal water rises from ten springs through tectonic breaks at a depth of approximately 2,000 metres. It contains 1,500 mg of mineral elements per litre of water, and is trapped at a depth of 60 m, which guarantees a constant chemical composition and temperature. The water temperature of the 10 springs at the outlet is from 67 to 69°C, and it is used for baths and drinking cures. The most important component for treatment of diseases of kinetic locomotive apparatus is the high content of sulphur (from 6 to 10 mg per litre), which occurs in the water in various forms and chemical compounds (sulphates, sulphites, sulphides). Even the high content of hydrogen sulphide is important –on average 4,7 mg per litre of water. 
Sulphur mud Spa Piestany's sulphur mud is a unique peloid. Its base is a homogenized sediment precipitating in the river Váh by-pass branch on the site of the current hot springs of the sulphuric thermal mineral water. It is prepared for balneological application using original technology which causes it to mature and regenerate and is accompanied by a multitude of chemical and biological reactions. The mature mud has a butter-like consistency, it is greasy, malleable, with good heat conducting features, it cools down four times slower than water, compared to which the former has 350x higher viscosity.
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