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Golden
Haven Spa - Nestled in the heart of the Napa Valley,
in the beautiful town of Calistoga, Golden Haven Hot Springs
makes the perfect wine country getaway. Come and experience
the magic of the healing mineral waters and rejuvenating spa
treatments. After a day of touring the wine country, you can
swim in our warm mineral pool, relax on the sun deck, and rejuvenate
with Golden Havens famous spa treatments. At Golden Haven
couples can enjoy mud baths in private treatment rooms. We also
feature soothing massages, luxurious herbal facials, and detoxifying
European Body Wraps. Come for the day or stay for the night
in one our newly remodeled rooms. Many have private kitchenettes,
saunas or hot mineral jauzzis. Families may prefer our two bedroom
units that accommodate up to four people. Come and see for yourself
why Conde Nest Traveler recently highlighted Golden Havens
Mud Bath treatments as a quintessential American travel
experience and why Travel and Leisure Magazine in April
2007 concluded that Golden Haven Hot Springs is one of the most
professional and up-to-date" spas in Calistoga. Special
Internet package discounts are available on our web siteessential
American travel experience. Special Internet package discounts
are available on our web site.
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Definition
- Mineral water - ground water, which in its natural state contains
carbon dioxide and other soluble matter in sufficient concentration
to cause effervescence or impart a distinct taste. There are
two primary classifications of hot springs :
Filtration hot springs - geothermally heated
mineral water that is initially fed by rainwater that seeps
into the earth. As it travels into the earth, it becomes subject
to increased energy through natural geothermal heat and is exposed
to gases and often a wide variety of minerals from rock and
mineral deposits. The water adsorbs the minerals via leaching,
is heated by the geothermal source, and then returns to the
Earth's surface.
Primary hot springs - geothermally heated mineral
water, where direct volcanic activity plays a far greater role
in the process of the hot springs formation. One of the fundamental
physical distinctions between a filtration spring and a primary
spring is the mineral and gas content of the water, such as
randon and bromide. Primary springs are often powered by magma
chambers, which exist under the Earth's surface, as well as
in volcanically active regions.
History of The Mineral Bath
Bath owes its name, its history, indeed its very existence,
to the hot mineral waters that rise at the King's Spring and
two others nearby, never varying in temperature or quantity,
producing 500,000 gallons of 120 degree Fahrenheit water per
day (that's 6 gallons a second, 360 per minute, 21,000 per hour,
and more than 182 million per year) since ... well, a very long
time ago indeed.
Prehistoric Bath
The Swineherd Prince: As one of the world's most beautiful and
romantic cities, it is fitting that the story of the founding
of Bath is a suitably romantic fairytale - which has the added
cachet that it may even be true! It's the story of making a
silk purse from a sow's ear, of making an exceedingly beautiful
and beneficent spa from a steaming, noisome swamp. And it all
started with the Swineherd-Prince: Bladud, son of Hudibras (and
later on father of King Lear), was exiled from court with a
disfiguring skin disease, and (as exiled princes do) became
a swineherd. His pigs also contracted a skin complaint, and
he noticed that when they wallowed in a foul hot muddy area
their skin cleared. No fool, Bladud, quickly started to wallow
too. His skin cleared, he returned to court, had numerous adventures
that have nothing to do with Bath, and when he became king he
built his capital at the site of the miraculous hot mud baths,
calling it after himself (Bladud - Bad-Lud or Bath-Waters).
It was also known as Caerbrent, or Caer Ennaint - the City of
Ointment.
Nineteenth Century Bath
If the 18th was the century of the glitterati, the 19th was
altogether less frenetic and superficial, more earnest, solid
and dull. But it uncovered and exhibited the long-forgotten
Roman Baths, renovated the Abbey, and still attracted painters
and writers such as Cox, Turner and Sickert, Jane Austen, Walter
Savage Landor and Thomas Carlyle. There was also the proliferation
of charitable societies and education, of shops and residential
housing for the middle and working classes, and Bath had to
deal with the same problem the 20th century faced - how to reconcile
the beauty and excellence of the past with the pressing needs
of the present. As in the 20th century, a number of mistakes
were made, and these resulted in the creation of the 'Old Bath
Preservation Society' in 1909.
The railway and the canal system both touched Bath, of course,
and it became more residential and industrial than previously,
but generally Bath had a rough time financially through most
of the 1800s. Therefore the temporary revival of spas, following
the fashion on the continent, was of great economic importance.
Gone were the days of merely wallowing in and drinking the waters,
however. Now to get the benefit, one had to have it atomised
or vaporised or sprayed or jetted, or injected into you or given
along with electric shocks! There had to be Inhalation, Humage
and Spray Rooms, Needle and Sitz Baths. The old baths were totally
outmoded, besides being in 'a state of decay', so the Corporation
roused itself and presented the city in 1889 with re-designed
King's and Queen's Baths and a new suite in Bath Street, and
with these came the fashion for grand hotels. It was while making
these new baths that the Roman Baths were revealed, and these
were given the Victorian's idea of a suitable Romanesque setting
with a colonnade and statues.
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