Prewar glamour returning to Polish health spa

For more than 100 years, aristocrats and artists came to the mountain health resort of Szczawnica Zdroj in search of cures. ... But this idyllic retreat founded in 1820 was wiped out by World War II and subsequent decades of communism ... (a)nd in the declining years of Moscow's influence, this picturesque clear-air haven in southern Poland, cradled in a valley between the Beskidy and Pieniny mountains, fell into disrepair.

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