Spała

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

Spała was the location of a hunting lodge owned by Emperor Nicholas [II of Russia|Nicholas II] of Russia. In 1912, Grigori Rasputin allegedly healed the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, [Tsarevich of Russia|Alexei Nikolaevich], who suffered from haemophilia, from a near-fatal haemorrhage.
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.