Villas jumelles Sainte-Marie et Saint-Louis
- Location
- Vittel, Vosges, France
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 28 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Stimulating — wakes the body and boosts circulation.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
The Villas jumelles Sainte-Marie et Saint-Louis are a pair of twin villas (gemellate villas) that form part of the architectural heritage of a historic French thermal resort — their paired design reflecting the Belle Époque architectural fashion for symmetrical twin villa complexes built for wealthy spa visitors in France's great nineteenth-century thermal towns, where elegant residential architecture surrounded the central thermal establishment to accommodate aristocratic and bourgeois guests taking the waters for weeks at a time. French spa towns of the nineteenth century developed entire urban vocabularies of villa architecture, casino buildings, park promenades, and thermal pavilions designed to make the thermal stay a complete lifestyle experience of elegance, nature, and renewal, and twin villas like Sainte-Marie and Saint-Louis embodied the fashionable domesticity of this exceptional urban typology. These architecturally distinctive buildings represent a significant element of France's thermal spa heritage — the built environment in which the great era of French thermal culture expressed its most refined and socially aspirational dimensions.