Spa towns and healing waters Kłodzko Land has five spa towns. Each has its park, its pump room and its own water – and each is a good reason for an afternoon. Polanica-Zdrój about 33 km The most elegant of the spas: a well-kept park, a riverside promenade, and in the pump room water from the Wielka Pieniawa spring. Ideal for a coffee stop on the way to the Table Mountains. 14 Duszniki-Zdrój about 42 km In 1826 the sixteen-year-old Chopin took the cure here and gave his first charity concerts; since 1946 an international Chopin festival has marked the occasion every August. On the edge of town stands the paper mill of 1605 with its curving shingle roof – now the Museum of Papermaking, where you can make a sheet of paper by hand. 15 Kudowa-Zdrój about 56 km A spa park with a pump room beneath old trees and, in the Czermna district, the Skull Chapel: walls and ceiling are lined with some 3,000 skulls and bones of victims of 17th- and 18th-century wars and epidemics. A quiet, solemn place, not for small children. The Toy Museum in the centre is more cheerful. 16 Długopole-Zdrój about 34 km The smallest and quietest spa, on the Nysa a few kilometres south of Bystrzyca Kłodzka: a park, a pump room and peace. Lądek-Zdrój about 5 km Your nearest spa is on the doorstep – and the only one with thermal water you can bathe in warm. See “On the doorstep”. How to take the waters In the pump room (pijalnia) you buy a cup for a small fee or bring your own. The water tastes of iron and fizz; drink it slowly, in small sips, while walking in the park. Music and chess in August The Chopin festival in DusznikiZdrój, the Moniuszko festival in Kudowa-Zdrój and the Akiba Rubinstein chess memorial in Polanica-Zdrój. 8 Kłodzko Land, a compact travel guide
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