The world famous spa town of PIEŠŤANY is famous for the medicinal geothermal water and sulfuric mud with extraordinary therapeutic effects on inflammatory disorders. Besides health and relax, the town offers its guests rich cultural life and plenty of opportunities for sports.
Good traffic accessibility of the town of PIEŠŤANY (29,890 inhabitants), because of its position at the junction of international traffic routes, unique medical mud, rich cultural life as well as the Sĺňava water reservoir form excellent conditions for the development of tourism.
The town of Piešťany has many visitors all year long, as there are various important events held, such as Piešťany Music Festival, Organ Days, Country Lodenica, Hodokvas Multimedia Festival, "Cena Slovenska" automobile race or the international rowing regatta "O pohár SNP".
There are many hotels, guest-houses, restaurants and cafés in the town. Art cafés with galleries are especially popular. The town has a wide range of sports facilities – tennis courts, a football stadium, an indoor ice rink, a riding centre and a water skiing resort, as well as a golf course and bowling or squash centres.
HISTORY
Settlement of the present spa town Pieštany and its surroundings goes well back to prehistoric times, which fact has been proven by archaeological finding of Venus from Moravany - a sculpture of a woman carved from mammoth tusk from the Early Stone Age. At present, it is the oldest exhibit in the Treasury in the Bratislava Castle. The first written reference to Piešťany (under the name Pescan) can be found in the Zobor Deed of Hungarian king Koloman I. from 1113.
The greatest expansion of the spa started after 1889, when the "Alexander Winter and Sons" company changed the spa into a business of international importance and the town of Piešťany and the village of Teplice became a famous spa town.
MONUMENTS
Sanatorium houses, hotels, villas and guest houses - they are the best witnesses to the history of the town. The oldest spa building is the Napoleon` Bath on the Spa Island (Kúpeľný ostrov). When walking on the Spa Island, you can see several historic buildings, as well as art sculptures in the Spa Park.
The island is connected to the pedestrian zone in the historic town centre through the Colonnade Bridge (known also under the title "Promenade Bridge") with the statue of a man breaking his crutch- a symbol of the spa from 1894 that is part of the town coat of arms nowadays. On the edge of the Town Park, there is the Kúpeľná dvorana hall (the so-called Kursalón) - the seat of the Balneological Museum.
Source: Mesto Piešťany
