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2 unusual facts about Spa town


Krapina

There is also a nearby municipality of Krapinske Toplice (Krapina spa) with numerous thermal springs and spa tourist infrastructure.

New Paris, Ohio

The area south of the village called Cedar Springs was an early health spa.


Carlsbad, Texas

When the Post Office required the community to be renamed, residents chose the name of the spa town of Karlsbad in Bohemia, after local wells were discovered to yield mineral water.

Dingwall and Skye Railway

The logical route for the original line would taken it through Strathpeffer, a spa town, and one of the few centres of population, but disagreements with landowners meant that it bypassed the town, until 3 June 1885 when the branch line was opened.

Franz Xaver von Linsenmann

However, he died before his consecration during a curative stay in the Black Forest spa town of Lauterbach.

Galeazzo Ciano

The following year he was allegedly involved in organizing the murder of the brothers Carlo Rosselli and Nello Rosselli, two exiled anti-fascist major activists killed in the French spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne on 9 June 1937.

Ménil-en-Xaintois

At the height of its fame, the little theatre attracted audiences from the leisured classes visiting surrounding thermal spas, as well as religious/political pilgrims from the big cities and beyond, including Jules Méline, Maurice Barrès, and the Shah of Persia.

North Llanrwst railway station

The village of Trefriw (noted for its spa, first used by the Romans), is still served by the station by way of the Gower suspension footbridge over the River Conwy, a rural walk of about one mile.


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Anna Ritter

Her husband died in 1893, and the widow moved to the spa town of Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia.

Anvil Vapre

The song names are inspired from scenery associated with Snake Pass; Bad Vilbel is a German spa town which is twinned with Glossop.

Baldassarre Lanci

Lanci also designed the church of Santa Maria della Rosa in the spa town of Chianciano Terme, in today's Province of Siena; Santa Maria della Rosa was built on a central plan; even though it was not finished, the church is notable for the sobriety, and clean lines of its design which culminates in an elegant dome.

Devica

It is bounded by the spa town on Sokobanja and river Moravica on north, Labukovo on south, road Sokobanja-Labukovo on west, and Galibabinac on east.

John Naish

Naish's health failed in his forties: he travelled to the Continent in hope of a cure, but died at the German spa town of Bad Ems on 17 August 1890 and was buried there.

Karel Komzák II

In 1892 Komzák was given leave of absence from his regiment on health grounds and the family moved to the spa town of Baden, some fourteen miles southwest of Vienna, where the following year he took over direction of the Spa Orchestra.

La Païva

Around 1840 she became the mistress of Henri Herz (1803-1888), a pianist, composer, and piano manufacturer, whom she met at Bad Ems, a fashionable spa town in Germany.

Lourdes water

Lacadé had hoped that Lourdes water might have special mineral properties which would allow him to develop Lourdes into a spa town, to compete with neighbouring Cauterets and Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

Nelly Erichsen

From 1912 until November 1918, Erichsen was living in the quiet Tuscan spa town of Bagni di Lucca with two companions - Evangeline Whipple and Rose Cleveland.

Nicola Porpora

In 1753 Porpora spent three summer months, with Haydn in tow, at the spa town Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge.

Rokumeikan

Pierre Loti, who arrived in Japan in 1886, compared the building (in Japoneries d'Automne, 1889), to a mediocre casino in a French spa town, and the European-style ball to a “monkey show”.

Roland Dorgelès

Born in Amiens, Somme, under the name Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.

Stadtschloss, Wiesbaden

During the Renaissance the city became a notable spa town, and Philipp Ludwig III commissioned construction of a New City Palace, completed in 1599.

Stubica

Stubičke Toplice (lit. "Stubica spa"), a spa town in Krapina-Zagorje County

Teplice District

Teplice is the second largest spa town in the Czech Republic, Teplice is also known for FK Teplice, the local football team playing the first Czech Division.

Tersk Stud

The nearby town, Mineralnye Vody, means "mineral waters" and is renowned as a spa town.

Therma Ikarias

The three springs currently in operation in the spa town of Therma (located 3 km East of Agios Kirykos port and 12 km from the island's airport) have a water temperature ranging between 45 and 52.8 degrees celsius (113–127 Fahrenheit).

Trenčianske

Trenčianske Teplice, health resort and small spa town in western Slovakia