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Spała

Village in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Spała
Village
Tsar's Manor House in Spała
Spała Show map of Łódź Voivodeship Spała Show map of Poland
Coordinates: 51°32′28″N 20°8′17″E / 51.54111°N 20.13806°E / 51.54111; 20.13806
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Łódź
County	Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Gmina	Inowłódz
Population  (2011)	484

Spała [ˈspawa] 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 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Inowłódz, 9 km (6 mi) east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and 54 km (34 mi) south-east of the regional capital Łódź.^[1] The village gives its name to the protected area called Spała Landscape Park.

Notable occurrences[edit]

• Spała was the location of a hunting lodge owned by Emperor Nicholas IIofRussia. In 1912 Grigori Rasputin allegedly healed the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia, from a near-fatal hemorrhage.^[2]
• Spała was the site of the Central European Jamboree in 1935, and of the International Young Physicists' Tournament in 1995.

Sport[edit]

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.^[3]

Demographics[edit]

Gallery[edit]

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  Nicholas II in Spała, 1912
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  Tsar's Tower
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  Chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary, the Queen of the Polish Crown
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  Olympic Preparation Centre Indoor Arena in Spała

See also[edit]

• Sport in Poland
• List of indoor arenas in Poland

References[edit]

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