Pouhon Pierre le Grand
- Location
- Spa, Belgium
- Water type
- iron-rich, carbonated, bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 12 °C
- pH
- 6.1
Water profile
Stimulating — wakes the body and boosts circulation.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Mineralised water — eases movement and joints.
Pouhon Pierre le Grand in the heart of Spa, Belgium, is the town's most celebrated spring, a naturally ferruginous, carbonated, bicarbonate iron spring named after Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, who visited Spa in 1717 to take its iron waters within a long thermal tradition. The spring is housed in a neo-classical pavilion in Spa's central square, and its water — a reddish, effervescent iron-rich liquid — was once renowned among European royalty as a celebrated mineral water. Pierre le Grand remains a living monument to Spa's five-century history as Europe's preeminent mineral spring destination and the origin of the word 'spa.'