Establishment date
1912

Adress
Kúpeľný ostrov, 2, 4

Description
A listed cultural sight. the Spa hotel Thermia Palace and the balneotherapeutic building Irma, which form a united building complex, were constructed between the years 1910 and 1912 to a design by the architects H. Böhm and Á. Hegedüs. Their art noveau decoration is work of several designers and artificers of various specializations. The greatest merit in success of the spa complex had Á. Kovács, the reputable static expert who designed the proper grounding of the object Irma in the environment of aggresive natural mud and counted the 21m double layer cupola spanning over the mud area. The building form a functional and very sophisticated unit, which provides all of the required balneotherapeutic, physiotherapeutic, accomodation and catering services, or other services such as, organisation of cultural events. This complex including the parks in front of and behind the Palaca Thermia, is still considered to be the so called ,, flag ship " of the Piešťany art noveau phenomena, despite the thoughtless ,, modernization " of Thermia interior in the 60 ´s of the 20th century and later intervention into the park composition. The statues of ancient deities Chloris (Flora), Demeter (Ceres), Hermes (Merkur) and Pallas Athena (Minerva), situated in the park in front of the palace Thermia, were created by an unknown classical sculptor in 1803. They were moved to Piešťany in 1942 from the castle in Kráľová pri Senci. The bust of the hungarian wueen Elisabeth situated on the facade of the Irma (in the niche of the left wall projection) is work of the sculptor G. Jankovics. between the years 1902 and 1918, the bust used to stand nearby the Headquarters of the Spa, at the place of a demolished baroque chapel of St. Jan Nepomucky.