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The Spa Theatre, a 557-seat Victorian theatre, is home to summer season shows and Christmas pantomimes. The Spa Ocean Room is used for dances, conferences and other events, including the Scarborough Jazz Festival and Coastival. The Victorian Cliff Tramway is a funicular railway that links the Spa complex with South Cliff, 200 ft above the South ...
Crowfoot was the subject of a ten-minute 1968 National Film Board of Canada documentary The Ballad of Crowfoot, directed by Willie Dunn. [35] The film explores the situation of aboriginal people in North America through the story of Crowfoot, featuring a montage of archival photographs, etchings, and newspaper clippings, set against a ballad by ...
The statue of "The crutchbreaker" in the spa town Piešťany – a symbol of balneotherapy Print of Spa, Belgium, 1895 Ikaalisten Kylpylä, a spa center in Ikaalinen, Pirkanmaa, Finland. A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring). Patrons visit spas to "take the waters" for their purported health benefits.
The Great Spa Towns of Europe is a transnational World Heritage Site consisting of a selection of 11 spa towns across seven European countries. They were developed around natural mineral water springs.
Spa architecture (German: Kurarchitektur) is the name given to buildings that provide facilities for relaxation, recuperation and health treatment in spas. The architecture of these buildings is called "spa architecture" even though it is not a uniform architectural style, but a collective term for a genre of buildings with a spa function.
Crowfoot (band), a 1970s-era California-based rock band; Crow's-foot stitch, a kind of embroidery stitch; Caltrop, an archaic anti-personnel weapon; Broad arrow or pheon, a marker for British or British Empire government property; Algiz or Elhaz, a Proto-Germanic rune
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In 1596, 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". [ 4 ]