Spa street view : Pouhon Pierre le Grand with lights of the night

Beautiful time lapse video shot by night of iconic Peter the Great ( Pouhon Pierre le Grand) octogonal building with fountains of light bubbles

Browse the collection : Spa, the Pearl of the Belgian Ardennes

Spa first became of interest to visitors in Roman times, but reached its golden age in the 18th century. Tsar Peter the Great visited the health resort in 1717 and Spa’s main fountain was renamed Pouhon Pierre le Grand as a tribute to him. Since then European princes, aristocrats and the upper middle classes have done the same, and Spa became a place of wellbeing but also a place to be seen, with the Habsburg Emperor Joseph II calling it “the café of Europe”.
(Travel Tomorrow)

The spring sheltered in this Neoclassical pavilion from 1880 is the most famous of the many that rise around Spa. This is the source that gave birth to Spa as a resort, and takes its name from Peter the Great who “took the waters” on this very ground in 1717. Inside is the “Fontaine aux dauphins intérieure”, the most ornate of the many fountains in the town. After a refurbishment, the pavilion reopened in 2012 as the new home of Spa’s tourist office.

(Crazy Tourist)

Pouhon Pierre le Grand shelters the most prolific spring; naturally fizzy, it is full of mineral salts and rich in iron with an average flow rate of 21,000 liters per day.  Constructed in 1880 by Victor Besme, the building was completely renovated by the architect Léo Haesbroeck in 2012. It houses the Tourist Office and the celebrated Spa «Livre d’Or», the work of artist Antoine Fontaine, nine meters long and representing in joyous chronological disorder 92 famous people who came to take the waters at Spa. Interactive animations show the wealth of Spa through its prestigious past as well as the current dynamism of the thermal city.

(Spa Tourisme)