Termy Pieniny Szczawnica

Termy Pieniny Szczawnica is a thermal and mineral spring spa in Szczawnica, a historic health resort in the Pieniny mountain range of Lesser Poland where mineral springs have been documented since the 15th century and developed into one of Poland's most elegant spa villages in the 19th century under the direction of the Szalay family, who transformed the village into a fashionable resort drawing the Polish and European intellectual aristocracy to its distinctive carbonated and iodine-rich mineral waters. The town sits at the entrance to the spectacular Dunajec River Gorge, where the turquoise Dunajec River carves through the dramatic white limestone formations of the Pieniny National Park in one of Central Europe's most celebrated natural landscape features, traditionally experienced on wooden rafts guided by Gorals (Carpathian highlanders) in distinctive local costume down the winding gorge. The bicarbonate mineral spring waters of Szczawnica have long been part of a thermal tradition associated with well-being, offered in a spa resort whose 19th-century villa architecture, mountain air, and combination of mineral spring heritage and spectacular Pieniny National Park scenery make it one of the most complete and beautiful spa destinations in the Polish Carpathians.