Spała 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 west of Inowłódz, east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and south-east of the regional capital Łódź.
The village gives its name to the
protected area called Spała Landscape Park.
Notable occurrences
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Spała was the location of a hunting lodge owned by Emperor Nicholas II of Russian Empire. In 1912 Grigori Rasputin allegedly healed the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia, from a near-fatal hemorrhage.
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Spała was the site of the Central European Jamboree in 1935, and of the International Young Physicists' Tournament in 1995.
Sport
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.
Demographics
+Demographic structure as of 31 March 2011 |
| Male | 238 | 52 | 156 | 30 |
| Female | 201 | 41 | 136 | 69 |
| Both | 484 | 93 | 292 | 99 |
Gallery
File:Nicholas II hunting in Spal.jpeg|Nicholas II in Spała, 1912
File:Spała, Poland - panoramio (13).jpg|Tsar's Tower
File:Kaplica pw. NMP Królowej, drewniany, 1922, nr rej. 418 z 16.04.1991 (1).jpg|Chapel of the Holy Virgin Mary, the Queen of the Polish Crown
File:Hala OPO COS Spała.JPG|Olympic Preparation Centre Indoor Arena in Spała
See also
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Sport in Poland
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List of indoor arenas in Poland
