Vodný park Bešeňová (Water Park Bešeňová)

Vodný park Bešeňová sits in the Liptov basin about 12km from Ružomberok, next to the Bešeňovské travertíny — a protected natural travertine monument formed by mineral-rich waters depositing calcium carbonate over millennia, a hint at the geology beneath the village. The park's first geothermal borehole was drilled in 1987, reaching 1,987 meters and striking water at 60.5°C; the resort's public pools opened in 1993, and three boreholes now feed the complex with water carrying substantial calcium (275–633 mg/l) and magnesium (76–154 mg/l), plus sodium, potassium, lithium, strontium, sulfates, bicarbonates, fluorides and chlorides. The iron-rich water has a distinctive reddish-brown tint and is used for musculoskeletal, respiratory and urological therapy across the resort's roughly nine thermal pools, spread over a 6-hectare site.