The biological pool at Refúgio da Quinta Nere Maitia, in Vale de Santarém, is located in a new tourist unit in Santarém municipality. Refúgio has 10 well-equipped wooden bungalows and aims to offer accommodation to tourists interested in visiting Greater Lisbon area and having a calm refuge in the countryside after visiting the capital. [...]
Water evaporation is not pollution at all. All living beings are evaporating water, plants, animals and people. Water evaporating on a lake surface is a process that has existed as long as there has been water open to the sky in the World. Evaporate means to reduce a liquid state to vapor. In the [...]
June 15th is International Biological Swimming Pool Day, proclaimed by the International Organization of Biologically Treated Swimming Pools (IOB). In this context, we ask for photos to be sent by our customers and fans of biological pools, sharing with us the best moment with the biological pool last year. We received this email from [...]
The new support from Turismo de Portugal for the interior tourism sector is a good opportunity to add a biological pool to a tourist enterprise located in the interior of the country. "Investment projects promoted by micro and small companies" that contributes improving the competitiveness and qualification of territories will be supported. The loan [...]
Recently, and even before the summer holidays, new tourism with biological pool opened to the public. Quinta do Carrascal Rural Resort, located near Arrouquelas, municipality of Rio Maior, has agricultural and forestry traditions, especially in production of olives, pine cones and wood. Extensive urban and agricultural rehabilitation, preserving the property's historical heritage, gave it [...]
Aquatic plants are valuable indicators, for example for water quality. They also constitute a rare natural heritage, since wetlands are part of the most threatened habitats in the world, not just in Portugal. Knowledge about aquatic plants is an important basis for biological pool designers. It is knowledge also sought after by private and [...]
Biological pools, like natural lakes in nature, are aquatic ecosystems colonized by living beings. Organisms that live in the surface part of the water, scientifically called pelagial, swim, float or float permanently in the water. The characteristic pelagial community moves in a floating form and is called plankton, composed of species of phytoplankton or [...]
June 15th is International Swimming Pond Day, proclaimed by the International Organization of Natural Bathing Waters (IOB). In this context, share* with us your best moment from last year. Send us a photo of your best moment by the biological pool! Send the photo with a short explanatory text, if you prefer, until International [...]
The cleaning of the biological pool by a team of professional divers in the spring is an added value, as we have known for many years. After winter, with long months out of use, it prepares the biological pool for the next bathing season and reduces, to a certain extent, its maintenance. The cleaning [...]
Since the first project in Portugal, we have exclusively foreseen indigenous plants for biological pools. And we have good reasons for this choice. The diversity of native aquatic plants in Portugal is very large and thus offers a wide range of species suitable for use. And we make no exceptions, we do not authorize [...]
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