PLACES OF INTEREST IN AND AROUND THE RESORT

This section introduces you to some leisure time ideas: tips for interesting side trips, activities you can organise at our resort and in the immediate vicinity and also events taking place this year in the Senica region.

Detailed information about leisure time activities at our resort and in the surrounding area is available at the Penati Golf Course reception desk, where you can find promotional leaflets and trail maps for walking, Nordic walking and cycling.

We would also like to point out at this time that there is an information service for our club members, resort guests and owners of recreational villas inside the resort, providing information about active leisure in the area around the resort together with contact information, maps, promotional leaflets, etc., and clients can individually organise activities themselves at places outside the resort.

Activities in the resort are provided in full, including hire of bicycles, rowboats, pedalos, sports equipment and the like – available to you from our staff at the club reception area.

This selection of tips for spending your leisure time is not final, and we are constantly seeking new and remarkable destinations and possibilities that are being continuously updated.

Tips for excursions to interesting places around the resort:

• OSTRÝ KAMEŇ:ruins of OSTRÝ KAMEŇ castle

• PLAVECKÝ HRAD: ruins of a castle along with the remains of a pagan settlement

• CEROVÁ: ruins of KORLÁTKO castle, a Renaissance-Baroque mansion with an extensive park and Slovakia’s first wind park

• PODBRANČ:ruins of BRANČ castle

• BORSKÝ MIKULÁŠ: birthplace of Slovak author Ján Hollý and home of the regional Záhorie Museum

• DOBRÁ VODA: historical cemetery with the grave of Ján Hollý and remarkable old gravestones, ruins of DOBRÁ VODA castle

• KATARINKA:mystical pilgrimage site with the ruins of a monastery

• ŠAŠTÍN STRÁŽE: pilgrimage site featuring the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary Basilica, a national cultural monument

• SMRDÁKY: SMRDÁKY spa with natural curative waters, statute of JESUS CHRIST on the hill overlooking the SMRDÁKY spa

• BREZOVÁ: BRADLO lookout hill with a mound erected in memory of Milan RastislavŠtefánik

• SKALICA: historical centre of the city of SKALICA, Masaryk Winery

• HOLÍČ: windmill, Baroque-Classical manor house – the summer residence of Empress Maria Theresa and an equestrian and agro-tourism centre, KOPČANY – horse breeding and riding farm, exhibition of Holíč’s faience manufacturers

• ZÁHORIE WINE ROUTE

• SENICA: Záhorie Gallery in Senica, Senica Nature Trail

• HODONÍN ZOO

• SOBOTIŠTE: Hutterite courtyard, Renaissance-Baroque mansion, astronomical observatory

• HLBOKÉ: Memorial house to Jozef Miroslav Hurban

• PRIETRŽ: Memorial room and monument to the Slovak National Uprising

• SEKULE: museum exhibiting a peasant craftsman’s house and workshop for production of ceramics

• KOŠARISKÁ: Milan Rastislav Štefánik Museum

• VRBOVCE: Vrbovčanská izba Museum

• TURÁ LÚKA: Classical farmhouse

• SMOLENICE: Driny Cave, Smolenice Castle

• ČASTÁ:Červený Kameň Museum, Astur falconry centre

Leisure Time Activities:

 At the resort:

a) For members of Penati Golf Club, owners of villas or villa tenants only:

• Swimming at the lake and resting at the sandy beach

• Pedalos and rowing on the lake

• Sport fishing* (not rental of fish hooks, fishing “hunt down and let live”)

• Beach volleyball

• Beach Bar TWEENTEE

• Barbecue & Grill Service provided by the Club Restaurant AL TRIVIO

b) for public:

• Golf school at the PENATI GOLF ACADEMY

• Children’s playground

• Weekend animation programs for children* (upon request, min. number of attendees – 6)

• Roller-skating (no rental of roller blades)

• Cycling (rental of bicycles)

• Jogging

* Terms & Information at the reception

Around the resort:

• Walking and Nordic walking * recommended are the ascents in the Little Carpathian Mountains at Záruby, Vápenná and Čierny Kameň and the Senica nature trail

• Horseback riding Kopčany – equestrian and agro-tourism centre, Holíč – horse breeding farm, Čáčov – ponies

• Cycling

• Mushroom picking in the surrounding forests

• Tarzánia – Skalica Rope Park

• Cruising the Baťa Canal – Skalica port

• Go-carts at Holíc

• Paintball at Holíč and Kúty

• Scenic airplane excursions and balloon flights – Senica Airport

• Sport fishing – Šajdíkove Humence, Kunov, Šaštín Stráže

• Hunting at hunting grounds in Záhorie** (in preparation)

• Recreational and hiking areas:Kunov Dam (Kunovská priehrada) and Zlatnícka Dolina

• Ornithological observations of gyrfalcons and birdlife** (in preparation)

* Information and maps of hiking trails, sales of bicycling and cycling maps available at reception

** Information at reception

Záhorie – Guide