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
Barry Lyndon
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Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Micha
Spa, Belgium
…Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, completed his opera here Robert le diable in 1830. The 1975 film Barry Lyndon is partly set in Spa during the eighteenth century. The 1975 film Belle is wholly set in contemporary Spa and its environs…
Re-release poster by Jouineau Bourduge
Special ultra-fast lenses were used for Barry Lyndon to allow filming using only natural light.
Marriage à-la-mode, Shortly After the Marriage (scene two of six).
Hogarth's Country Dance (c.1745) illustrates the type of interior scene that Kubrick sought to emulate with Barry Lyndon.