Jáchymov Spa (Lázně Jáchymov)

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

Photo: Straktur, Wikimedia Commons

Temperatura della sorgente: 29°C
Temperatura di balneazione: 34°C
Balneazione: Vasca interna
Fondato nel: 1906
Alloggio: Hotel in loco

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.

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Perché visitarlo

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.

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L'acqua

Acqua termale

Sorgente: Svornost mine radon water
Mineralizzazione: Radon-bearing mineral water
Carattere: Radioactive radon water drawn from the historic Svornost silver mine, used in medical balneology since 1906.

Informazioni pratiche

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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