Medevi, Spa complex in Motala Municipality, Sweden

Medevi is a spring complex with multiple buildings and structures arranged around a natural water source in the Östergötland region. The site today includes a hotel facility with 61 rooms of various sizes, dining areas, and museum spaces dedicated to its working history.

Medevi Brunn was founded in 1678 by Baron Gustaf Soop, owner of Medevi gård, and the royal physician Urban Hjärne, who had analysed water samples from the spring the year before. A delegation including Count Gustaf Oxenstierna confirmed the water's quality on 25 July 1678. Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora took the cure in July 1679, followed by Karl XI, Gustav III, Karl XV and Carl XVI Gustaf. The health centre closed in 1982.

The daily concerts by the Medevi Brunnsorkester, a brass sextet playing on original instruments from around 1900, are followed by the grötlunken: visitors walk in step behind the marching band along Stora gången, a custom dating from the 1870s and named after the evening porridge with prunes. Once each summer the long grötlunken covers a couple of kilometres, and barley porridge with prunes is served as the evening meal.

Medevi Brunn lies about 15 km north of Motala on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern. The grounds are compact and walkable, with the buildings grouped around Stora gången, the central avenue. The orchestra plays daily in summer except Mondays; the long grötlunken walk is held once each summer.

The pharmacy museum keeps the electricity machine from 1799 used by Jöns Jakob Berzelius, who trained at the Medevi brunn pharmacy around 1800. The building in the photograph, with its arched openings and doors marked "Sweden", is one of the many structures protected as a listed building complex.