Place:Spa, Liège, Belgium

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NameSpa
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates50.483°N 5.867°E
Located inLiège, Belgium
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Spa is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium, whose name became an eponym for mineral baths with supposed curative properties.

The town of Spa is situated in a valley in the Ardennes mountains southeast of the city of Liège and southwest of Aachen. In 2006, Spa had a population of 10,543 and an area of , giving a population density of 265 inhabitants per km² (685/sq mi).

Spa is one of Belgium's most popular tourist destinations, being renowned for its natural mineral springs and production of "Spa" mineral water, which is exported worldwide. The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, just south of the nearby village of Francorchamps, also hosts the annual Belgian Grand Prix.

The world's first beauty pageant, the Concours de Beauté, was held in Spa on 19 September 1888. It hosted the Tour de France on 5 July 2010, when stage 2 of the race ended in the town.

In 2021, the town became part of the transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Great Spa Towns of Europe", inscribed for its famous mineral springs and its architectural testimony to the rise of European bathing culture in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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