The country of Slovakia is extremely rich in mineral and thermal springs with the healthy effects. It also has extensive deposits of high-quality healing peat and mud. In West Slovakia are approximately twenty thermal baths which are an ideal environment for the summer holidays...

Slovakia is a country with a truly extraordinary number of curative springs. It also has extensive deposits of high-quality healing peat and mud. For a long time people have been taking advantage of these resources to cure a variety of diseases and ailments. If we tell you that in this little country there are one thousand one hundred and sixty registered mineral and thermal springs, you will get some idea of the enormous total healing capacity of these sites. Even Marcus Aurelius´ Roman legions tried out the thermal water and several of the better-known spas are visited every year by patients from many countries...

In Slovakia there are a lot of restaurants that offer typical Slovak specialities, and the specialities of the neighbouring countries, too. Especially you can taste Hungarian, Czech and Austrian cooking that influenced the original Slovak cooking. The "most-Slovak" meal is bryndzové halušky (gnocchi with sheep's cheese) with aromatic fried chopped bacon atop. Any decent Slovak restaurant would omit halušky in its menu, as well as traditional Slovak soups, such as bean soup, cabbage soup with sausage and dried mushrooms, lentil soup, mushroom soup or potato soup...