- Source: Mineral spa
Mineral spas are spa resorts developed around naturally occurring mineral springs. Like seaside resorts, they are mainly used recreationally although they also figured prominently in prescientific medicine.
Origins
Spas were used for millennia for their purported healing or healthful benefits to those wealthy or close enough to partake of their waters. This was called a mineral cure and gave let to phrases such as taking a cure and taking the waters. There has always been a mixture of recreational and medicinal connotations involved, from rest and relaxation, stress relief, and convalescence to more specific notions such as humorism. These phrases are sometimes used as a euphemism for one trying to kick a drug dependency.
In many cases, mineral spas were located in mountainous locales that gave an additional excuse to leave the drudgery of a hot house in warm weather during summer's onset and were seasonally populated by the well-to-do. They eventually became early vacation spots with the counter-Victorian work ethic 'rationale' of health as an excuse to have fun and mix with one's peers in recreation.
Subsequently, many became the seed stock for today's modern vacation resorts. Locations such as Steamboat Springs, Vail, St Moritz, Mineral Wells first became popular for the questionable health benefits of mineral or soda-water soaks, ingestion, and clean outs during the hey-day of patent medicines and backward medical knowledge. United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt suffered a paralytic illness, and regularly visited Warm Springs and other hot springs for restorative soaks. While his cousin Theodore Roosevelt was known as a physically active and healthy person, he had asthma and used physical activity as well as occasional visits to mineral spas as attempts to address his asthma.
The name "spa" comes from the Belgian town Spa.
Evolution of the resort
As the Victoria era ended, the influences of the industrial revolution created more and more varied members of the upper middle class. The concepts of vacationing, tourism, and travel became less the property of the old monied classes and more shared by an increasing population base of those who could afford holiday trips, like the rich.
Such adventures had much allure before any audio-visual entertainment outside a live orchestra. Thus, the spas began attracting more local patrons and those from afar when the burgeoning numbers could take advantage of the automobile and the now extensive railways throughout most of Europe and the United States.
The spa towns already had infrastructure and attractions to assuage such desires, and the modern tourist trip began to take its familiar form. Other technologies came into play (skis, ski boats, etc.)
Notable mineral spa and spring areas
= Africa
=South Africa
Caledon, Western Cape
Tshipise, Limpopo
Bela Bela, Limpopo
Badplaas, Mpumalanga
= Asia
=China
Anshan, Liaoning
India
Vajreshwari Temple, Maharashtra
Japan
Beppu, Ōita
Gero, Gifu
South Korea
Yuseong-gu, Daejeon
Turkey
Pamukkale, Denizli Province
= Europe
=Albania
Spa, Peshkopi
Armenia
Arzni
Bjni
Hankavan
Jermuk
Austria
Bad Fischau-Brunn
Azerbaijan
İstisu, Kalbajar
Belgium
Spa (municipality)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slatina
Bulgaria
Bankya
Banya, Plovdiv Province
Dobrinishte
Hisarya
Kyustendil
Narechen
Pavel Banya
Sandanski
Sapareva Banya
Varshets
Velingrad
Czech Republic
Karlovy Vary
Luhačovice
Mariánské Lázně
France
Aix-les-Bains
Dax
Évian-les-Bains
Tercis-les-Bains
Vichy
Georgia
Borjomi
Germany
Baden-Baden
Bad Neuenahr
Wiesbaden
Hungary
Budapest
Hévíz
Poland
Ciechocinek
Krynica-Zdrój
Nałęczów
Romania
Baile Felix
Baile Govora
Baile Herculane
Baile Tusnad
Vatra Dornei
Russia
Belokurikha, Altai
Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
Martsialnye Vody, Karelia
Goryachy Klyuch, Krasnodar Krai
Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai
Staraya Russa, Novgorod Oblast
Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai
Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai
Yessentuki, Stavropol Krai
Zheleznovodsk, Stavropol Krai
Serbia
Bukovička Banja
Vrnjačka Banja
Slovakia
Korytnica kúpele
Piešťany
Trenčianske Teplice
Turčianske Teplice
Slovenia
Radenci
Spain
A Toxa
Caldes de Malavella
Lanjarón
Panticosa
Zestoa
Sweden
Ramlösa hälsobrunn
Switzerland
Saint-Moritz
United Kingdom
= England =
Askern
Bath
Boston Spa
Buxton
Cheltenham
Church Stretton
Dorton Spa
Droitwich Spa
Epsom
Harrogate
Ilkley
Knaresborough
Malvern
Matlock
Matlock Bath
Royal Leamington Spa
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Scarborough; see also The Spa, Scarborough
Shap
Shearsby
Tenbury Wells
Woodhall Spa
Ukraine
Yalta
= Americas
=Brazil
Caxambu
Canada
Harrison Hot Springs
Costa Rica
Tabacón
Jamaica
Milk River Bath, Clarendon
Mexico
Agua Hedionda
Uruguay
Termas del Arapey
United States
Desert Hot Springs, California
French Lick, Indiana
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Mineral Wells, Texas
Mount Clemens, Michigan
Poland Spring, Maine
Saratoga Springs, New York
Sharon Springs, New York
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Warm Springs, Georgia
Warm Springs, Virginia
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Waukesha, Wisconsin
= Oceania and Australia
=Australia
Hepburn Springs
Daylesford
Peninsula Hot Springs, Victoria
New Zealand
Hanmer Springs
Rotorua
References
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mineral Waters" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 517–522.
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