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1.3 South Africa. 2 In the Americas ... The list of spa towns lists national lists and various relevant spa towns around the world. In Africa ... Spa town; Seaside ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Aix-les-Bains ( US : / ˌ eɪ k s l eɪ ˈ b æ̃ , ˌ ɛ k s -/ , [ 3 ] French: [ɛks le bɛ̃] ⓘ ; Arpitan : Èx-los-Bens ; Latin : Aquae Gratianae ), known locally and simply as Aix , is a commune in the southeastern ...
The waters were known to the Romans, [3] and are used all year round. In winter, they have provided heat for houses and the church as district heating since the 14th Century; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] from spring the waters are channeled to the spa for the treatment of rheumatics.
The Mont Blanc massif viewed from the locality of the "Pierre Plate" St Gervais les Bains (also referred to as St Gervais or St Gervais Mont Blanc) is a traditional French market and spa town, not a recently purpose built resort, and so has a significant year round population, rather than just seasonal and is full of historical buildings giving it the traditional charm much sought after in the ...
Vichy is the French form of the Occitan name of the town, Vichèi, of uncertain etymology. Dauzat & al. have proposed that it derived from an unattested Latin name (Vippiacus) referencing the most important regional landowner (presumably a "Vippius") during the time of the Roman emperor Diocletian's administrative reorganizations and land surveys at the end of the 3rd century AD.
[1] [2] From the early 18th century to the 1930s, Western Europe experienced an increase in spa and bathing culture, leading to the construction of elaborate bath houses. [1] These would often include gardens, casinos, theatres, and villas surrounding the springs and the bath houses. [1] [3]
The fortunes of Royale seemed to be recovering at the turn of the 20th century, when a spring in the hills behind the town was found to contain enough sulphur to make it marketable as mineral water. Royale reinvented itself as a spa town, renamed itself "Royale-les-Eaux" and began exporting "Eau Royale", in a torpedo-shaped bottle.