Kúpele Bojnice

Kúpele Bojnice is a historic natural thermal spa adjacent to the fairy-tale Bojnice Castle — Slovakia's most visited and most photographed castle, whose neo-Gothic towers rising above the surrounding lime tree park make it one of Central Europe's most visually romantic castles — in the town of Bojnice in the Prievidza District of the Trenčín Region, where bicarbonate-calcium-magnesium mineral spring waters have been appreciated since medieval times and developed into a modern thermal spa tradition. The Bojnice thermal spa, together with the adjacent Bojnice Zoo (Slovakia's oldest and most visited zoo) and the Bojnice Castle with its extraordinary collections and annual International Festival of Ghosts and Phantoms, creates one of Slovakia's most comprehensively entertaining heritage and wellness destinations in the forested Nitra River valley of the western Slovak highland. The bicarbonate-calcium-magnesium composition of the Bojnice mineral waters is part of a long thermal tradition associated with well-being within the established Slovak balneological framework inherited from the Czechoslovak health resort tradition.