History

According to legend , the healing springs in the area of ​​the current spa were discovered by a lame shepherd looking for a stray sheep. While searching for the sheep, he came across a pond that smelled of sulfur. After several baths in it, he noticed that the sheep was healing, so he decided to immerse his aching limbs in the warm waters of the pond.
The rumor about the miraculous healing water thus began to spread. Suffering patients came from all over to bathe in the springs of this healing water.
The sheep, as an extraordinary symbol, also made it into the city’s coat of arms.

The first record of the hot springs dates back to 1247. From the 13th to the 16th century, Trenčianske Teplice and the springs belonged to the rulers of the Trenčianske Castle. Although it is assumed that the springs must have been known by the hunting nations of the Quadi and the Roman legions in the 2nd century.

The greatest contribution to the development of the Trenčianske Teplice spa was made by the llésházy family , who owned the spa for 241 years. At that time, the spa was one of the most important in Austria-Hungary.

In 1835, the Viennese financier Juraj Sina bought the spa, who rebuilt and modernized it. His son Šimon had a hotel built and the spa park expanded, and in 1888, his daughter Ifigénia had the most precious historical monument preserved to this day, a Hammam in the oriental Moorish style, added to the Sina mirror.

We also provide our True Spa services in other historically significant buildings.

The name Sina still bears the name of the bathhouse with the mirror . There was originally a bakery in its place, until one day a stream of warm water gushed into the pit under the bakery oven, and the Sina pool grew there, which still has the warmest spring with 40-degree healing water.

Our three thermal pools are located in one of the oldest brick buildings, the manor house . One of them – the MUDr. Čapek pool – is named after the father of artists Karel and Josef Čapek, who worked as a doctor at the spa for 13 years.

Not far from the mansion stands a more than century-old polyclinic building . It once housed the Institute of Physical Therapy, with a room for therapeutic gymnastics, which now resembles a fitness center, and provided massages, electrotherapy, and hydrotherapy.