Luhacovice Spa

Luhačovice Spa has a more than 350-year spa tradition. It is the largest spa in Moravia and one of the most beautiful spas in the Czech Republic.
The unique face of Luhačovice Spa was given by the Slovak architect Dušan Jurkovič. Today's Jurkovič House spa hotel is a wonderful example of his art. The atmosphere is completed by numerous hotels and villas of various architectural styles, a colonnade and a large park.
Unique natural healing mineral springs place Luhačovice among the European leaders in spa treatment of respiratory tract diseases. The elegance competition will be organized in cooperation with the joint-stock company Lázně Luhačovice, which manages the most famous mineral spring Vincentka and 9 others.
Although the foundations of the Luhačovice spa were laid in the 17th century, the spa architecture can only be discussed from the end of the 18th century, when the first group of simple spa buildings, mostly no longer preserved, was built. The most significant construction phase was the first third of the 20th century, when a unique set of buildings by architect Dušan Jurkovič was created, followed by other works of Art Nouveau, early modernism and functionalism.
The preserved types of buildings correspond to the development of the Luhačovice spa industry. In the 19th century, drinking cures for the treatment of digestion prevailed, in the 20th century the spa specialized in inhalation treatment of the upper respiratory tract. The third type of main procedures are mineral baths and hydrotherapy. On a smaller scale, other types of treatment were added to them during the 20th century: sulfur baths (joint and skin diseases), peloid procedures (peat baths), etc.
The generous, loose urbanism of a favorable scale without disruptive interventions is the result of maintaining Dušan Jurkovič's initial concept from the early 20th century throughout the entire hundred years of the spa's modern history.