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Patince Surroundings

The territory of Patince is located in the South-Eastern part of the Danube plain, in the altitude approximately 105 to 110 metres above the sea level. Patince village is situated on the most southern geographical point of Slovakia. It is located 15 km to the east from Komárno (direction Štúrovo) near by the Danube River.

Patince village belongs to the area with a warm climate, characterised by mild weather and not too high temperatures. Winters in this locality are of a warmer and drier character, with longer sunshine – more than 1500 hours during the vegetation period.

Many Slovak and foreign tourist have for many decades been attracted by recreational area, which is located approximately 2 km from Patince village, for its thermal open air pools, recreational, tourist and cyclist facilities in the surrounding nature.

In the vicinity of the village there are three mineral springs, which contain high degree of hydro carbonates, calcium, magnesium and disulphates. The temperature of thermal spring which can be found in this area is 27 °C and it has favourable effects on locomotion system and diseases related to them. The thermal spring in Patince and its surroundings (0.5 ha) were proclaimed a protected zone in 1953.

Outdoor relax pool with toboggan, swimming pool for children and playground for children can also be found in the recreational area.

Apart from pools, visitors can use artificial lake with the total surface of 14 ha, which is a place for water sports, boating, water bicycles riding and, moreover, it also serves for those who like fishing. Those who like sports can use modern sport fields: there are beach volleyball, mini golf and tennis courts in the area.