Spa, Belgium
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Spa is a municipality and city of Wallonia in the province of Liège, Belgium, whose name became an eponym for mineral baths with supposed curative properties. It is in a valley in the Ardennes mountai
The Casino of Spa
View of Spa in 1647, engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder
Print of Spa, c. 1895
Kaiser Wilhelm II and his staff at Villa du Neubois in Spa in 1918
Spa town
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A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa. Patrons may visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits.
Spa, Belgium
…third-grade fevers and dispels calculous affections. The same water, put on the fire, becomes cloudy and eventually turns red." (C lib. XXXI VIII) The spa town grew in the Middle Ages, in the oldest iron and steel centre of Liège Province. The ban Spa was created around 1335 and included two urban concentrations…
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