"to various Indo-European words for ""sun"" (cf. Homeric Greek ηέλιος, Sanskrit ""sūryah"" ""sun"", from Proto-Indo-European ""*suhlio-""). Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called ""Aquae Sulis"" (""the waters of Sulis""). Her name primarily appears on inscriptions discovered at Bath, with only a single instance outside of Britain at Alzey, Germany. This is not surprising, as Celtic deities often preserved their archaic localisation. They remained to the end associated with a specific place, often a cleft in the earth, a spring, pool or well. The Greeks referred to"
"spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became known as Harrogate, the first resort in England for drinking medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr Timothy Bright after discovering a second well called the resort ""The English Spaw"", beginning the use of the word ""Spa"" as a generic description. It is commonly claimed, in a commercial context, that the word is an acronym of various Latin phrases, such as ""salus per aquam"" or ""sanitas per aquam"", meaning ""health through water"". This is very unlikely: the derivation does not appear before the early 21st century and is probably a"
"legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud. The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of ""Aquae Sulis"" (""the waters of Sulis""). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a"
"crossing point of their road, they would have been attracted by the large natural hot spring which had been a shrine of the Celtic Brythons, dedicated to their goddess, Sulis. This spring is a natural mineral spring found in the valley of the Avon River in Southwest England, it is the only spring in Britain officially designated as hot. The name is Latin for ""the waters of Sulis."" The Romans identified the goddess with their goddess Minerva and encouraged her worship. The similarities between Minerva and Sulis helped the Celts adapt to Roman culture. The spring was built up into"
"Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington , is a spa town in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities, in the 19th century the town experienced one of the most rapid expansions in England. It is named after the River Leam, which flows through the town. The town contains especially fine ensembles of Regency architecture, particularly in parts of the Parade, Clarendon Square and Lansdowne Circus. In the 2011"
"Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters and RHS Harlow Carr gardens. away from the town centre is the Yorkshire Dales national park and the Nidderdale AONB. Harrogate grew out of two smaller settlements, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate, in the 17th century. Since 2013, polls have consistently voted the town as ""the happiest place to live"" in Britain. Harrogate spa water contains iron, sulphur and common salt. The town became known as 'The"
"(A439). Leamington Spa experiences the oceanic climate which covers most of the United Kingdom. Leamington is twinned with: Leamington has friendship agreements with: Leamington Spa Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or Leamington , is a spa town in Warwickshire, England. Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities, in the 19th century the town experienced one of the most rapid expansions in England. It is named after the River Leam, which flows through the town."
"was to celebrate the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark on 10 March 1863. The Spa In 1833 the old Roman mineral water caves (believed to have been discovered by soldiers of the XXth Roman Legion) were excavated in an attempt to attract people to them. In 1863 Lord Willoughby de Eresby built a small bath-house, replaced a decade later by the current building. Large numbers of people came, no doubt aided by national advertising, and the declaration by Dr. Hayward, a fashionable medical specialist from Liverpool, that this was ""Probably the best spa"
"Droitwich Spa is twinned with: Droitwich Spa Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to ""Droitwich"") is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south of Birmingham and west of Redditch. The town was called Salinae in Roman times, then later called Wyche, derived from the Anglo-Saxon Hwicce kingdom, referred to as ""Saltwich"" according to Anglo-Saxon charters, with the Droit (meaning ""right"" in French) added when the town was given its charter on 1 August 1215 by King John. The ""Spa"" was added in the 19th century when John Corbett developed the town's spa facilities. The"
"spa town. Spa towns in Spain include: Taiwan is home to a number of towns and cities with tourism infrastructure centered on hot springs. These include: Some but not all UK spa towns contain ""Spa"", ""Wells"", or ""Bath"" in their names, e.g., Matlock Bath. Some towns are designated Spa Heritage Towns. Two out of three of the English towns granted the title ""Royal"", Royal Leamington Spa and Royal Tunbridge Wells, are spa towns. ""See: List of spa towns"" Spa town A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to"
"Boston Spa Boston Spa is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Situated south of Wetherby, Boston Spa is on the south bank of the River Wharfe which separates it from Thorp Arch. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 4,006 rising to 4,079 in the 2011 census. In 1744, John Shires established a spa town when he discovered sulphur springs in the magnesian limestone. It was known as Thorp Spa but declined when Harrogate became very popular as a spa town. In 1753, a turnpike was"
"geothermal spring which rises at a constant temperature of 28 °C. It was settled by the Romans around AD 78, when it was known as Aquae Arnemetiae, or the spa of the goddess of the grove. Bess of Hardwick and her husband the Earl of Shrewsbury, ""took the waters"" in 1569, and brought Mary, Queen of Scots, there in 1573. The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the 5th Duke of Devonshire in style of the spa of Bath. A resurgence in the Victorian era attracted Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah"
"English Spa"". He compared the waters of the Tewit Well with those of Spa in present-day Belgium, which even by Deane's day, was already a popular place where spring water was being consumed for health reasons. The waters from the natural spring upon which the Pump Room is built upon contains the greatest amount of sulphur of all of Harrogate's many water springs. The water from the Old Sulphur Well was termed ""Strong Sulphur Water"" to distinguish it from sulphurous waters from the town's other wells. Betty Lupton (c.1760–1843), dispensed ""Strong Sulphur Water"" from a well for approximately six decades"
"when the location was called ""Aquae Spadanae"", sometimes incorrectly connected to the Latin word ""spargere"" meaning to scatter, sprinkle or moisten. Since medieval times, illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron-bearing) spring water (in 1326, the iron-master Collin le Loup claimed a cure, when the spring was called ""Espa"", a Walloon word for ""fountain""). In 16th-century England, the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath (""not"" the source of the word bath), and in 1596 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called ""Spaw"") discovered a chalybeate"
"springs in the Belgian town of Spa, which gave its name to spa towns. The medicinal properties of the waters were publicised by Edmund Deane. His book, ""Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spa Fountain"" was published in 1626. In the 17th and 18th centuries further chalybeate springs were discovered in High Harrogate, and both chalybeate and sulphur springs were found in Low Harrogate. The two communities attracted many visitors. A number of inns were opened for visitors in High Harrogate in the 17th century (the Queen's Head, the Granby, the Dragon and the World's End.) In Low Harrogate the Crown"
"found in the UK. These natural geothermal mineral springs fed into the Roman Baths complex, which was responsible for the prominence of Bath in the Roman period, as well as for the later development of Bath as the country's leading eighteenth and early nineteenth century health resort. In the middle of the 20th century, the city's swimming pool sourced its water directly from the King's Spring through one of three pipelines beneath the River Avon. However, the old municipal hot pools were closed in 1978 after the discovery of an infectious organism in one stratum of the aquifer. After that"
"mineral water. The town of Enfield, New Hampshire, even changed its name temporarily to Relhan because of the profound public interest in this form of therapy. Princess Victoria, later Queen Victoria, drank the waters every day during her stay in Tunbridge Wells in 1834. She and her mother, the Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent, would pay a visit to the spring and then enjoy a stroll along the Pantiles. The water contains a significant level of dissolved mineral salts, with iron and manganese contributing to its characteristic flavour. The Spire Southampton Private Hospital in Chalybeate Close Southampton UK was formerly"
"the largest spa town in Germany. ""See: List of spa towns in Greece"" The most famous spa towns in Greece are Aidipsos and Loutraki. ""See: List of spa towns in Hungary"" In Hungary, the word ""fürdő"" or the more archaic ""füred"" (""bath""), ""fürdőváros"" (""spa town"") or ""fürdőhely"" (""bathing place"") implies a spa town. Hungary is rich in thermal waters with health benefits, and many spa towns are popular tourist destinations. Budapest has several spas, including Turkish style spas dating back to the 16th century. Eger also has a Turkish spa. Other famous spas include the ones at Hévíz, Harkány, Bük,"
"by an oracle to the warm springs to heal their wounds after a battle. Aelius Aristides had also frequently resorted in the baths and had reported that it was here that Asclepius had first began to prohetise. A number of sulphurous hot springs rise in and around a small stream, which previously dried up in summer, but which is now kept in service all year round thanks to modern installations centered around a five-star hotel. The waters, of a temperature of to 160 degrees Fahrenheit, are considered good for rheumatism, sciatica, gallstones and eczema. The baths are remain extremely popular"
"which opened in 1983. The spa welcomes thousands of visitors a year with its richly mineralized waters at . Set in a park of 36 ha (89 acres), its facilities are among the most modern in Europe. The waters are particularly suitable for the treatment of liver, gastric and respiratory ailments. In addition to a fully equipped fitness pavilion, there are also massage booths, saunas, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, solariums, Turkish baths and whirlpools. Treatments from algae wraps and lava-stone therapy to lymphatic drainage and ayurvedic rituals are said to be especially relaxing. St Michael's Church is one of"
"Baden-Baden Baden-Baden is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France. The springs at Baden-Baden were known to the Romans as ' (""The Waters"") and ' (""Aurelia-of-the-Waters"") after M. Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus. In modern German, ' is a noun meaning ""bathing"" but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural form of ' (""bath""). (The modern plural"
"water. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a label from a bottle of Dorton water. A surgeon who lived in nearby Oakley, Buckinghamshire wrote a book which discussed and praised the Spa. Grandiose schemes were proposed showing ten separate baths, two ballrooms, a reading room and a billiard room. Whether all these schemes were completed is subject to conjecture. A hotel in Brill was also built, the Spa Hotel, overlooking the spa to accommodate the visitors. (The hotel was pulled down after damage sustained by a German doodle-bug exploding nearby in World War II). But in 1841 the new Queen"
"of the waters to the attention of the aristocracy, who started to partake in them soon after. The term ""spa"" is used for towns or resorts offering hydrotherapy, which can include cold water or mineral water treatments and geothermal baths. Most of the mineral springs in Australia are in the Central Highlands of Victoria, although there are a few springs in South Australia, Moree, New South Wales and Queensland. Most are within 30 km of Daylesford, Victoria: the Daylesford and Hepburn Springs call themselves 'Spa Country' and the 'Spa Centre of Australia'. ""See: List of spa towns in Bosnia and"
"to when Greek pilgrims traveled from the eastern Mediterranean to a small area in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of the healing god Asklepios. Spa towns and sanitaria were early forms of medical tourism. In 18th-century Europe patients visited spas because they were places with supposedly health-giving mineral waters, treating diseases from gout to liver disorders and bronchitis. Factors that have led to the increasing popularity of medical travel include the high cost of health care, long wait times for certain procedures, the ease and affordability of international travel, and improvements in both technology and"
"victim to the violence that accompanied the period of intense migrations that followed the disappearance from the western empire of Roman governance. The commune incorporates two mineral water springs, one of them, first exploited more than two thousand years ago, known as the ""Roman Spring"" and the other known as the ""Celtic Spring"": """" branded water is widely available in the area. The waters' curative properties are recommended against rheumatism and degenerative illnesses. The spa tradition today supports a more general tourist industry in the little town, which even boasts its own casino. The little town also contains an archaeological"
"Droitwich Spa Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to ""Droitwich"") is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south of Birmingham and west of Redditch. The town was called Salinae in Roman times, then later called Wyche, derived from the Anglo-Saxon Hwicce kingdom, referred to as ""Saltwich"" according to Anglo-Saxon charters, with the Droit (meaning ""right"" in French) added when the town was given its charter on 1 August 1215 by King John. The ""Spa"" was added in the 19th century when John Corbett developed the town's spa facilities. The River Salwarpe running through Droitwich"
"Varaždinske Toplice Varaždinske Toplice ( Kajkavian: ""Varaždinske Toplice"") is a small town in northern part of Croatia in Varaždin County. The town has been well known throughout the centuries for its hot springs as well as a medical center. In Ancient Rome it was known as Aquae Iasae. Today, the town's biggest employers are ""Hotel Minerva"", built in 1981 with approx. 440 beds, and Hospital for Medicinal Rehabilitation ""Terme"" which is one of the leading rehabilitation centers for spinal cord and neurological injuries and disorders in Croatia. In 2013 Varaždin County, the formal owner of the hotel and the hospital,"
"Lawrence. Lyncombe was part of the hundred of Bath Forum. When Bath became popular as a spa town during the Georgian era, Lyncombe Vale was a famous beauty spot often visited by the well-to-do, and Jane Austen visited on one of her stays in the city. A mineral spring was discovered in Lyncombe Vale in 1737 by Mr Charles Milsom, a cooper (after whose son, Milsom Street in Bath was named). When attempting to fix a leaking fishpond he noticed a sulphurous odour, and saw water bubbling up from the ground. He then styled himself as a doctor and invited"
"Thermae Bath Spa Thermae Bath Spa is a combination of the historic spa and a contemporary building in the city of Bath, England, and re-opened in 2006. Bath and North East Somerset council own the buildings, and, as decreed in a Royal Charter of 1590, are the guardians of the spring waters, which are the only naturally hot, mineral-rich waters in the UK. The Spa is operated by YTL Hotels. The main spa building, the New Royal Bath, was designed by Grimshaw Architects and is constructed in Bath stone, enclosed by a glass envelope. It has two natural thermal baths,"
"Celts (the Allobroges tribe), who worshipped them under the auspices of the god Borvo. Attached to the city of Vienne, after the conquest of Caesar, the Roman vicus of Aquae (Aix) grew around a first-class bathing establishment, continually improved and expanded. Therefore, this tradition of baths was permanently preserved over the centuries. There are also testimonies of the presence of King Henry IV in 1600, who washed in the unique Roman swimming pool still accessible at the time, called the ""Royal Bath"". In 1783, through the subsidies of King Victor Amadeus III, a first modern thermal hotel was built. These"
"Spas in Budapest Thermal baths or spas in Budapest are popular tourist attractions as well as public comforts for the city's residents. One of the reasons the Romans first colonized the area immediately to the west of the River Danube and established their regional capital at Aquincum (now part of Óbuda, in northern Budapest) is so that they could utilize and enjoy the thermal springs. There are still ruins visible today of the enormous baths that were built during that period. The new baths that were constructed during the Turkish period (1541–1686) served both bathing and medicinal purposes, and some"
"their spa status, but this is not a general rule (e.g. Ciechocinek and Inowrocław are spa towns, but do not use the affix). Portugal is well known by famous spa towns throughout of the country. Due to its high quality, as well as the landscape where are located, the most important ones are: ""See: List of spa towns in Romania"" In Romania, the word ""Băile"" implies a spa town. The most famous spa towns in Romania are Băile Herculane, Băile Felix, Mangalia, Covasna, Călimănești & Borsec. ""See: List of spa towns in Serbia"" Serbia is known for its many spa"
"Hierapolis Hierapolis (, ""Holy City"") was an ancient city located on hot springs in classical Phrygia in southwestern Anatolia. Its ruins are adjacent to modern Pamukkale in Turkey and currently comprise an archaeological museum designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hot springs have been used as a spa since the 2nd century BC, with many patrons retiring or dying there. The large necropolis is filled with sarcophagi, most famously that of Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, which bears a relief depicting the earliest known example of a crank and rod mechanism. The great baths were constructed with huge stone blocks"