Jáchymov Spa (Lázně Jáchymov)

The world's first radon spa, in a silver-mining valley of the Ore Mountains.

Photo: Straktur, Wikimedia Commons

Température à la source: 29°C
Température de baignade: 34°C
Baignade: Intérieur
Fondé en: 1906
Hébergement: Hôtel sur place

Jáchymov built its wealth on silver and later on uranium ore. In 1906 the town opened the world's first radon spa, using water rising from the Svornost mine — the same galleries that supplied the ore for Marie Curie's research.

Le regard Balnevia

Pourquoi y aller

The setting is unlike any other European spa: a narrow mining valley, early twentieth-century sanatoria, and a treatment tradition built entirely around radon water drawn from a working historic mine.

Recommandations

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L'eau

Eau thermale

Source: Svornost mine radon water
Minéralisation: Radon-bearing mineral water
Caractère: Radioactive radon water drawn from the historic Svornost silver mine, used in medical balneology since 1906.

Informations pratiques

Treatments are medical in character and usually booked as programmes through the spa houses rather than as walk-in bathing. The Radium Palace and neighbouring houses hold the pools and treatment wings.

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