Rajecké Teplice

Rajecké Teplice is a spa town in the Žilina District, Žilina Region in northern Slovakia. The first reliable written record was in 1376. It has town status since 1989. The town lies in the Rajčanka river valley, 15 km south of Žilina. Located between the Lúčanská Malá Fatra and Martinské hole Hills at the valley of the Rajčanka river, the spa is marked as Thermae on a map from 1376, but a deed by Luis the Great gives the first written account of the hot water springs named Villa Tapolcha. In the donation deed made by the king Vladislaus II for Štefan Zápoľský from 1496, the spa is referred to as "possessio Thoplycza", what could mean a settlement or a hamlet. The Lietava domain had been developed at the beginning of the 17th century and...