Harrogate Spa Stories
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(Why Harrogate International)
Of all the English spa towns, Harrogate can be seen historically as the least insular, carefully monitoring developments beyond the English Channel.
From the mid-18th century onwards and increasingly in the course of the 19th century, spa towns across the continent developed a recognizably European spa culture, with facilities such as the Kurparks, gardens and promenades, grand hotels, Kursaals, casinos and pump rooms – all following a similar, and similarly eclectic, architectural style – emulated across borders from one place to another. The same applies to spa treatments and spa entertainments.
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This site is managed by the Harrogate Cure and was conceived in
conjunction with the HERA-funded research project The European Spa
as a Transnational Public Space and Social Metaphor.
Conception: Astrid Köhler, Text © Astrid Köhler and Karen Southworth, Design © Jana Riedel.
