It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

Another memorable ruler was Max Franz ( ruled 1784-1794 ), who founded the university and the spa quarter of Bad Godesberg.

Rather, it was a banquet hall for the Russian nobility which frequented this spa resort in the late 19th century, and is presently used as a restaurant.

The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great-great-grandfather Meyer Löb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen .< ref >

He became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, a fashionable chapel in a well-known spa, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts.

The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis (" the waters of Sulis ") by the Romans sometime in the AD 60s about 20 years after they had arrived in Britain ( AD43 ), although oral tradition suggests that Bath was known before then.

The monumental Neo-Classical Kurhaus (" spa house ") was built at the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II between 1904 and 1907.

A collection of 300-year-old woodblock Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji prints, contained in the wellness spa of the Costa Concordia was lost during the collision of the ship on January 13, 2012.

Under the Roman Empire, it was a place of retreat, baths ( the hydrothermic waters are still used as a spa ) and exile.

It was one of the first planned Victorian commuter suburbs, centered on the B & O railroad station in Takoma, D. C., and bore aspects of a spa and trolley park.

It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

At that time, refreshing in a health spa bathing, taking outdoor exercise and enjoying healing waters was fashionable amongst the aristocracy.

In 1865 a seaside spa was founded, 50 years later Westerland was granted town privileges.

Until the 20th century it was a spa village situated in Upper Silesia.

Marquetry using colored straw was a specialty of some European spa resorts from the end of the 18th century.

In October 1776, the town was officially named Bath, in honor of England's spa city called Bath.

The spa was demolished in 1882, although a water fountain was left behind.

A hotel was built near the site of the spa at Chingawasa Springs, and a depot and eatery as well.

Located near the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, it was an important spa and resort center in the late 1800s and early twentieth century as well as the location for a campus of what is now John Brown University ( JBU ) and facilities for Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of lignum vitae wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778.

The Hotel is built with noise canceling panels as well as a Restaurant, a pool, business center, spa, beauty salon, gymnasium and a bar.

Hot springs have been used for bathing at least since paleolithic times The oldest known spa is a stone pool on China ’ s Lisan mountain built in the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century BC, at the same site where the Huaqing Chi palace was later built.

By 1833, a hotel was built as a health spa near the spring.

The Royal Hotel, originally called the Hastings Hotel, was built in 1826 to accommodate visitors to the growing spa.

Leamington became a popular spa resort attracting the wealthy and famous, and construction began of numerous Georgian townhouses to accommodate visitors, and a town hall was built in 1830.

Two parking garages, a pool, a spa, new administrative towers, a ballroom, and a larger gaming area were built.

It was at this time that many handsome stone villas were built on wide thoroughfares, with practically every second house becoming a lodging house as Bridge of Allan became a renowned spa town, especially during the boom years of hydropathic establishments.

Helensburgh was founded in 1776 when Sir James Colquhoun of Luss built spa baths on the site of Ardencaple Castle, which dated back to about 1600.

In the mid-18th century, while Gesundbrunnen was being built up as a health resort and spa town, gambling and prostitution moved into Wedding, transforming it into a pleasure district.

In 1880 Mary Howitt had a house built for her ( which is still standing ) in the spa town of Meran in South Tyrol ( then part of Austria ) and from then on divided her time between Rome and Meran.

Burton also drew up designs for a grand crescent of terraced houses on the hill above the spa, which was, however, never built.

Soak City, the first waterpark built in Ontario, added a new “ family ” waterslide, an outdoor " spa pool " and waterfall, and over 100 metres of new landscaped beach and public promenades.

The Long Mynd Hotel in Church Stretton was built in 1900, originally as the Hydro, at a time when the town was popular as a spa.

The Abernant Lake Hotel was built on the site of an old farm, to cater for the many visitors, keen to take the spa waters.

Many of the houses were built during the Industrial Revolution, and Malvern's boom years as a spa town, by wealthy families from the nearby Birmingham area.

In the 19th Century the community built a spa hotel, which was abandoned in the interwar period.

It was built for Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers and the Lord of the Manor of Beighton in 1842, and initially was a hotel with spa baths beneath.

The red brick and stone Imperial Hotel which had been the largest in Malvern during the town's heyday as a spa in the second half of the 19th century, is still one of the largest buildings in Malvern and was built in 1860 by the architect E. W. Elmslie who also designed the Great Malvern railway station, the Council House, and The Grove in Avenue Road in 1867, originally to be his private residence which in 1927 became part of the Lawnside School for girls.

The specific plan for the future of the site includes: a new 115-room annex to the existing 135-room hotel ; a new 300-room lakefront hotel ; new reservoirs and a reconfiguration of the Lake Vonette ; new vineyards, along with the Windy Point restaurant and wine-tasting site ; a new 18-hole golf course ; 36 new custom estates on fairway-adjacent lots ; of commercial space, 34 apartment suites built to condominium standards, and 266 condominiums, townhomes, and single-family attached homes in the new Village Walk mixed-use lifestyle center ; 300 new condominiums, townhomes, and / or senior apartments in an upscale retirement village ; a new spa resort ; 429 condominiums, townhomes, and single-family detached homes located adjacent to the golf course ; commercial stables at a new polo club and equestrian center ; extensive multi-purpose trails and watercourses ; a public botanical garden ; of private parks ; a new office complex ; a new conference center ; and, of commercial space and 285 condominiums, townhomes, and single-family attached homes in the Hilltown development.

* Thalassa sea & spa, a chain of thalassotherapy spas owned by French hotel group Accor

The beginnings of the Bobsleigh were humble, starting when English tourists were enticed to stay over the winter in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland by the successful marketing of hotelier Caspar Badrutt.

Caricature by Ludwig Emil Grimm, 1820In 1819-1820, Droste spent a year with the Haxthausens at Bökerhof, interrupted only by a stay at the nearby spa town of Bad Driburg, where she hoped to find a cure for her health problems.

It includes a restaurant run by chef David Felton, cooking school, wine school, working farm, luxury resort and spa.

While some linguists deny the plausibility of the Basque substrate theory, it is widely assumed that Basque, the " Circumpyrenean " language ( as put by Basque linguist Alfonso Irigoyen and defended by Koldo Mitxelena, 1982 ), is the underlying language spreading around the Pyrenees onto the banks of the Garonne River, maybe as far east as the Mediterranean in Roman times ( niska cited by Joan Coromines as the name of each nymph taking care of the Roman spa Arles de Tech in Rousillon, etc .).

Hot Springs National Park is the oldest federal reserve in the USA, and the tourist trade brought by the famous springs make it a very successful spa town.

Construction of the new 22 million dollar Seacoast Inn, a 78-room, four-story, upscale Mediterranean-style resort with restaurant, spa and conference facilities, is underway on the 1. 4 acre oceanfront lot and due to be complete by October 2012.

The springs are not available for public use as a bath / spa resort, but they are used by the Roosevelt Institute for therapeutic purposes.

The town was considered an escape for the rich, and because of the Sulphur Springs, had a renowned spa by the water.

Built on the River Wye, and overlooked by Axe Edge Moor, Buxton has a long history as a spa town due to its geothermal spring which rises at a constant temperature of 28 ° C.

Portugal is well known by famous spa towns throughout of the country.

The spa era passed by mid-century, and the hotels were razed.

The city is currently trying attract tourism by trying to revive the health aspect of the lake to attract the spa crowd.

Aylsham was once noted for its spa, situated about half a mile south of the town, comprising a chalybeate spring, formerly used by those suffering from asthma and other chronic conditions.

Witham briefly enjoyed a period as an affluent spa town after the discovery of a mineral-bearing spa in the town by Dr Taverner in the 18th century.