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Title: Belgium and Holland. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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The respective fares for these are: 'Tour des
Fontaines' (a visit to the different springs; 2 hrs.) 6, 8, 10 fr.; to Sart; and
Francorchamps, returning past the Sauvenière (3¹/₂ hrs.), 10, 12, 15 fr.; Theux
and Franchimont (2^1/₂hrs.) 8, 10, 12 fr.; Grotte de Remouchamps (3 hrs.) 16, 20,
25 fr.; Cascade de Coo (3 hrs.) 16, 18, 25 fr., via Stavelot 18, 20, 30 fr.
Horses. Ponies ('bidets'), of a peculiar variety and as sure-footed as
asses or mules, are much used; ride of 2 hrs. 5 fr.; each additional hour
2 fr.; Grotte de Remouchamps 15 fr.; Cascade de Coo 15 fr.; etc.
Visitors' Tax. Since the suppression of gaming the directors of the
baths have exacted the following charges from frequenters of the Casino,
the Winter Garden, and the Park : 1 pers. for a fortnight 20, 2 pers. 30,
3 pers. 40 fr.; for the season 60, 90, or 110 fr. Day-tickets for the Casino,
11/2 fr., for the Park, 'Pavilion des Petits Jeux' and Pouhon 1¹/₂ fr., for
the concerts in the Park or the 'Pavilion des Jeux' 50 c.

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SPA. 31. Route. 229

Concerts. In the Promenade de Sept Heures at 2.30 and at 7.30 p.m.
(see below). No music in the forenoon.
Post and Telegraph Office, Rue Neuve.
Theatre, performances on Sun., Tues., and Thurs. evenings.
Clubs. Cercle des Etrangers at the Casino (subs. 30 fr., including right
of admission to the balls, etc.); Union Club; Lawn Tennis Club.
Physicians. Dr. Thompson ; Dr. Lezaak, Place Royale; Dr. Scheuer,
Rue de la Sauveniere; Dr. de Damseaux; Dr. Poskin.
English Church Service, in the handsome English Church in the Boul.
des Anglais; Sunday services at 8.30, 11, and 7. 30; daily at 8.30 a.m.
— Presbyterian Service in July and August at the Chapelle Evangelique.

Spa (820-1080 ft. above the sea-level), a small, attractive-
looking town with 6500 inhab., is prettily situated at the S. hase of
wooded heights, at the confluence of three streams, the Wayai, the
Picherotte, and the Spa. Like other watering-places, it consists chiefly
of hotels and lodging-houses, while numerous shops and bazaars
with tempting souvenirs and trinkets, a pleasure-seeking throng
in the promenades , and numbers of importunate valets-de-place
and persons of a similar class, all combine to indicate that
haracter which occasioned the introduction of its name into
the English language as a generic term.

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