The local springs` reputation for healing properties reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire, when legionaries used them to treat their battle wounds, and even now this spa known as the roman Baths. The spa complex is situated in the picturesque valley of the Little Stiavnice River, in the vicinity of the European north-south road routes. The recent history of this youngest, but still important spa in Slovakia dates back to the sixties of this century.
Dudince is an ideal place for recondition and relaxation. The spa was built up on the base of scientific, hydrogeological and medical research.

The age of volcanic springs is estimated on approximately hundred thousand years. Approximately 32 reservoirs have been kept until nowadays as a protected cultural monument under the name �Roman Baths�. The thermal spa comes from the one common pool located in the large depths and outlying cavities. The cavities are filled with the circulated thermal waters, which are continuously warmed up in the very deep depth.

The curative Dudince�s water is: hydrogen sulfide-containing acidulous spring water, alkaline-earthly, sulfated and salty, hydrogen carbonated-chloride, sodium-calcareous, carbonated and sulfurous. Its uniqueness consists of fact, that as the only water in Europe, it contains carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. More over the both components are presented in this water in very large amounts. Specify of these springs is their biological activity and penetration through the skin straight into the human body. Similar composition has in Europe only spa Vichy in France.