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Balneological Museum Piestany
This museum at Piestany was founded in 1931 thanks to the Piestany Museum Society and the Winter family, lessors of the Piestany spa. It was of a local-history character, but since 1966 specializes in balneology and the history of Slovak watering places and climatic spa.
The museum is located in the Spa Hall, socalled Kursalon, built in 1893, where also exhibitions of balneohistory, mineral waters in Slovakia, ethnography and archaeology are installed.
Military Museum Piešťany
The museum is a part of the Military Historical Institute and has its seat at the premises of a former military airport in Piešťany. The Exposition of Czechoslovak military Armature from the years 1945 to 1992 is the permanent exposition of the Military Museum Piešťany. The museum was opened on 25th of September 2004, after its removal from the exposition in Trenčín. On its vast area, it offers to visitors an opportunity to see more than a hundred items of heavy and light technology...
Magnate´s Castle on Ducove – Kostolec
An important archaeological locality the great Moravian Magnate´s Castle on Kostolec in Ducove 7 kilometres distant from Piestany is also in charge of the Balneological museum. The castle had been built in the second half of the 9th century and it demonstrates the rudiments of the Slovak national history. Panels with illustrated comments placed directly on the site provide the visitors with necessary information.
The manor house Moravany nad Váhom
This originally medieval structure acquired its appearance as we know it now after the 16th century reconstruction. In the English park of the manor house statues by artists from all over the world are exhibited. The manor serves as the Home of Slovak Artists. The village Moravany is also an important archaeological site with the remains of the Palaeolithic settlement of mammoth hunters. The little statue is now deposited in the collections exhibited at the Castle of Bratislava.
Slovak Pisa - Vrbové
Vbové is situated to the northwest of the spa town Piešťany. The most interesting monuments is the Bell Tower. The project was carried out by Master Mason Jozef Verner of Čachtice who completed the work in 1835. On 28th October 1930, after long-lasting rains, the tower suddenly inclined. That was caused by the soaking of the soil under the tower and relatively narrow foundations of the construction. Later it was stated that the inclination made 7075 cm. In 1997, an expert measurement discovered that the tower was inclined from a vertical axis by 98 cm to the southwest. The handicap of the tower turned to a certain advantage – it became a tourist attraction due to which Vrbové is also called Slovak Pisa.

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