Jáchymov Spa (Lázně Jáchymov)

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

Photo: Straktur, Wikimedia Commons

Source temperature: 29°C
Bathing temperature: 34°C
Bathing: Indoor
Established: 1906
Accommodation: Hotel on site

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.

Balnevia view

Why visit

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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The water

Thermal water

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

Practical information

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.

Official website