Spała: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Spała

| settlement_type = Village

| total_type =  

| image_flag =

| image_shield =

| image_skyline = Budynek Dworu Carskiego w Spale.JPG

| image_caption = Tsar's Manor House in Spała

| subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]]

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = [[Voivodeships of Poland|Voivodeship]]

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Łódź Voivodeship|name=Łódź}}

| subdivision_type2 = [[List of Polish counties|County]]

| subdivision_name2 = [[Tomaszów Mazowiecki County|Tomaszów Mazowiecki]]

| subdivision_type3 = [[Gmina]]

| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Inowłódz|Inowłódz]]

| coordinates = {{coord|51|32|28|N|20|8|17|E|region:PL|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = Poland Łódź Voivodeship#Poland

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| elevation_m =

| population_total = 484

| website =

| population_as_of = 2011

}}'''Spała''' {{IPAc-pl|'|s|p|a|ł|a}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Inowłódz]], within [[Tomaszów Mazowiecki County]], [[Łódź Voivodeship]], in central Poland. It lies on the [[Pilica River]], approximately {{convert|6|km|mi|0}} west of [[Inowłódz]], {{convert|9|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of [[Tomaszów Mazowiecki]], and {{convert|54|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south-east of the regional capital [[Łódź]].<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) &ndash; TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}}</ref> The village gives its name to the [[protected area]] called [[Spała Landscape Park]].

==Notable occurrences==

* Spała was the location of a hunting lodge owned by [[Emperor of Russia|Emperor]] [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] of [[Russian Empire|Russia]]. In 1912 [[Grigori Rasputin]] allegedly healed the [[Tsarevich]] [[Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia|Alexei Nikolaevich]], who suffered from [[haemophilia]], from a near-fatal [[hemorrhage]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Massie |first1=Robert |title=Nicholas and Alexandria |date=1967 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |isbn=9780345438317 |pages=180–189}}</ref>

* Spała was the site of the [[Central European Jamboree]] in 1935, and of the [[International Young Physicists' Tournament]] in 1995.

==Sport==

The village is the site of the Olympic Preparation Centre, which is a professional training base for national and Olympic teams of many disciplines. The sports indoor arena was built in 1988 and is among the biggest ones in Poland.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://spala.cos.pl/en/367/olympic-sports-centre-in-spala |title=Olympic Sports Centre in Spala |access-date=7 March 2021}}</ref>

== Demographics ==

{| class="wikitable"

|+Demographic structure as of 31 March 2011<ref>{{Cite web |last=GUS |title=Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku. Stan w dniu 31.03.2011 r. |url=https://stat.gov.pl/spisy-powszechne/nsp-2011/nsp-2011-wyniki/ludnosc-w-miejscowosciach-statystycznych-wedlug-ekonomicznych-grup-wieku-stan-w-dniu-31-03-2011-r-,21,1.html |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=stat.gov.pl |language=pl}}</ref>

!

!In general

!Pre-working age

!Working age

!Post-working age

|-

|Male

|238

|52

|156

|30

|-

|Female

|201

|41

|136

|69

|-

|Both

|484

|93

|292

|99

|}

==Gallery==

<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">

File:Nicholas II hunting in Spal.jpeg|[[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] in Spała, 1912

File:Spała, Poland - panoramio (13).jpg|Tsar's Tower

File:Kaplica pw. NMP Królowej, drewniany, 1922, nr rej. 418 z 16.04.1991 (1).jpg|Chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary, the Queen of the Polish Crown

File:Hala OPO COS Spała.JPG|Olympic Preparation Centre Indoor Arena in Spała

</gallery>

==See also==

*[[Sport in Poland]]

*[[List of indoor arenas in Poland]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Gmina Inowłódz}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spala}}

[[Category:Villages in Tomaszów Mazowiecki County]]

{{TomaszówMazowiecki-geo-stub}}