Spa term is associated with the treatment of the water that also is known like the balneotherapy. The bath or centers of spa (including thermal water stations) are characterized to offer different treatments from health. The belief in the curative powers of mineral water goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been very popular anywhere in the world, but specially they are extended in Europe and Japan. Day bath also they are very popular, and offers diverse treatments of personal care.

The term is derived from the name of the city of Spa, Belgium, whose name is known the Roman time, when the place was called Aquae Spadanae, perhaps related to “the Latin word “spargere” felt to the dispersion, there is dew nor dampens.
From the medieval time, the diseases caused by iron deficiency treat taking ferruginous (iron-bearing) water from spring (in 1326, the tycoon of the Collin iron him demanded Loup one cures, when the spring was called Espa, a Wallon word by the “source”).

In England, century 16, old idea Roman of baths medicinal was revividas in cities like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby that was been in the Belgian city (that he called Spaw) discovered a ferruginous spring in Yorkshire. It constructed a well closed enclosure in which he knows himself like Harrogate, first resort in England to drink medicinal waters, next, in 1596 the Dr. Shining Timothy in resort the English Spa, from the use of the Spa word like a generic description.

Commonly one affirms, in a commercial context, that the word is an acronym of several phrases in Latin like “Salus per aquam” or “Sanitas to per aquam”, that means “health by the water”. This is very little probable: the derivation not to appear before century 21 and is not probably one backronym “since there are tests of the no abbreviations to happen to the language before century 20, nor agrees either with the well-known names Roman of the locality