Jáchymov Spa (Lázně Jáchymov)

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

Photo: Straktur, Wikimedia Commons

Temperatura da nascente: 29°C
Temperatura de banho: 34°C
Banho: Piscina interior
Fundado em: 1906
Alojamento: Hotel no local

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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Por que visitar

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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A água

Água termal

Nascente: Svornost mine radon water
Mineralização: Radon-bearing mineral water
Carácter: Radioactive radon water drawn from the historic Svornost silver mine, used in medical balneology since 1906.

Informações práticas

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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