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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.
Contents
1 Origins
2 Evolution of the resort
3 Notable mineral spa and spring areas
3.1 Africa
3.1.1 South Africa
3.2 Asia
3.2.1 China
3.2.2 India
3.2.3 Japan
3.2.4 South Korea
3.2.5 Turkey
3.3 Europe
3.3.1 Albania
3.3.2 Austria
3.3.3 Azerbaijan
3.3.4 Belgium
3.3.5 Bosnia and Herzegovina
3.3.6 Bulgaria
3.3.7 Czech Republic
3.3.8 France
3.3.9 Georgia
3.3.10 Germany
3.3.11 Hungary
3.3.12 Poland
3.3.13 Romania
3.3.14 Russia
3.3.15 Serbia
3.3.16 Slovakia
3.3.17 Slovenia
3.3.18 Spain
3.3.19 Sweden
3.3.20 Switzerland
3.3.21 United Kingdom
3.3.21.1 England
3.3.22 Ukraine
3.4 Americas
3.4.1 Brazil
3.4.2 Canada
3.4.3 Costa Rica
3.4.4 Jamaica
3.4.5 Mexico
3.4.6 Uruguay
3.4.7 United States
3.5 Oceania and Australia
3.5.1 Australia
3.5.2 New Zealand
4 References
Origins
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 such 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 became known as a manly-man
of incredible endurance, he was a sickly child suffering from asthma and 'took
cures' periodically in an attempt to gain better health.
Such adventures had much allure in the days before any audio-visual entertainments
outside a live orchestra. Thus, the spas began attracting an increasing number of
local patrons as well as those from afar just at the time when the burgeoning
numbers were able to take advantage of the automobile and the now extensive
railways throughout most all of Europe and the United States.
The spa towns already had infrastructure and attractions in place to assuage such
desires, and the modern tourist trip began to take its familiar form. Other
technologies came into play (skis, ski boats, etc.)
Slides and pools in the hot springs camp in Bela-Bela (South Africa).
South Africa
Caledon, Western Cape
Tshipise, Limpopo
Bela Bela, Limpopo
Badplaas, Mpumalanga
Asia
Japan
Beppu, Oita
Gero, Gifu
South Korea
Yuseong-gu, Daejeon
Turkey
Pamukkale, Denizli Province
Europe
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