Banánsky kopec ( hill ), how this area was called by the native inhabitants long ago, draws up the Váh valley in 255 meter above the sea-level and 100 meter above surrounded land. Untill the year 1925 were here ridges, which were used agricultural, especially as pastures. In the history began the hill to apear in the coherence with the stay of L. v. Beethoven, who, it is said, liked to walk on this hill. The alley which goes from the range of the hill into the forests of Inovec hills was named after him, because they wanted to give him honour. The extraordinary position catched the eye of succesful spa contractors – Winters and from the end of the First World War they were preparing for its spa – recreant using. The hill was in the time literature called „Radium“ – on the basis by a wrong supposition of a scientist- that it is the finding place of the popular element Radium (Ra). The Winters let the range of the mountain plant as a forestpark, they built here the „Red Tower“- Červená veža  – a modern view-point with a restaurant and the whole lokality became a recreant hinterland of the town Piešťany, richly visited especially by the spa visitors. With the grounds behind the forestpark had the Winters great plans. They have been thinking about the building of a spacious healing-komplex, which idea sketch  Ľudovít Winter let make before the Second World War. It had to be connected with the spa island and the town by a rope railway. The project wished not just the lokality but also the fact that the healing thermal springs are welling right on its hill-side. The realisation was frustrated by the Second World War and the following nationalizing of the spa. Also in the socialism era appeared some projects for building on this alluring place ( look projects and territorial plans from Ing. Arch. R. Krajíček ) but they did not become the priority from the state offices and the surface was used mostly agricultural, partly as a recreant zone of the town. Through the lokality are leading favorite walking ways and turistic paths – through the forestpark and Beethoven alley into the Inovec mountains. The magic of the described place is supported by the views onto the Váh valley, on the castles Tematín, Beckov and Čachtice, as   on the 400 ha surface of the Lake Sľňava but with also some historical facts. Especially the vulcanic origin of the whole hill, from what is derived the source of the thermal springs but also from the year 1300 written to added existence of the castle „Bana“, which the precisely place or grounds haven´t been found yet.