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Long before wellness became a global industry, a small town in eastern Belgium shaped how Europeans thought about health, leisure and water. In Spa, the original spa is reclaiming its place in the story.

When the physician and psychiatrist Leonard Schwartz surveyed his life at middle-age, he was not particularly happy with the state of himself as a physical specimen. Decades of smoking, overwork, and living a sedentary lifestyle had left him with high blood pressure, chronic back pain, and a generally subpar level of energy.