Pavillon des Petits Jeux : an architecture gem in center town of Spa

Detail view of the glass ceiling and iron cast columns of the Small Games Pavilion, iconic 19th century old building in the center of Spa town

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

Walking was part of the regimen recommended by the local doctors in the 18th century, so we strolled into the Parc de Sept Heures, one of three public landscaped parks. Inaugurated in 1758, the park is dotted with Belle Epoque constructions, often melding wrought iron and glass. There are pavilions, kiosks and a covered promenade where patients were instructed to stroll several times a day.

(The Guardian)

The impetus for La Brasserie des Bobelines was a call for project applications, set out by the town of Spa as a way to revitalise the Pavillon des Petits Jeux, a 19th-century building recognised as a Belgian national heritage site. Bobeline & Cie co-founder Didier Dumalin answered the call, putting forth an idea he had been contemplating for a long time.

(Brewver)

The original Spa, though–with a capital S–is an entire town, handsome and diminutive, in the spring-soaked hills of the picturesque Ardennes Mountains in eastern Belgium. This Spa, from which our word derives, is an easy day trip from Brussels, modern enough to have instant cash machines but old-fashioned enough to preserve its heritage of ornate Beaux-Arts buildings. Spa offers even casual visitors a revitalizing taste of long ago in an atmosphere where distinctions between past and present flow sweetly together.

(Los Angeles Times)