Health Resorts In Switzerland
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Little Switzerland Resort
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Peter Zumthor Therme Vals $80.62 Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built the structure on the sharp grade of an Alpine mountain slope with grass-topped roofs to mimic Swiss meadows, captured here in a series of sumptuous images. Peter Zumthor T… |
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Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland 1860-1914 (Studies in Popular Culture) $38.83 Healthy Living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors an… |
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The spas of Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy;: A hand-book of the principal watering places on the continent, descriptive of their … notices of spa life, and incidents in travel … |