Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… also defined a new approach to spa life but along different lines. This comparative entry seeks to outline the contours of a transnational spa sociability in four major aspects of ‘openness’ i.e., the interplay of sociability and … in the century. The most celebrated of these perhaps was the visit in 1716 by Tsar Peter I of Russia on his 1716-17 grand tour of Western Europe, but this was hardly an isolated event. This visit was followed several weeks later by King … its function as a hub for sociability. Pyrmont would see its role and position much diminished, eclipsed by the emerging grand spas of Wiesbaden and Baden-Baden, which grew dominant in the changing nineteenth-century. 33 . See e.g. Johanna …
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