Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
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Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
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Fonte do Povo — Galician for 'The People's Spring' — is a communal bicarbonated mineral spring whose name expresses its defining social character: a natural resource belonging to and shared by the whole community, in the long Galician tradition of communal water management and collective access to geothermal resources. Such community springs have been central to Galician village life for centuries, serving as gathering places for social exchange as much as sources of therapeutic mineral water. The spring embodies the democratic spirit of shared natural heritage in one of Spain's most water-rich regions.
Insider tip — Fonte do Povo lies in the remote interior of Tras-os-Montes, Portugal's far northeastern upland region near the Spanish border at around 41.7°N. Bicarbonate-rich waters emerge from granite and schist terrain, characteristic of the wider Iberian Massif hydrothermal system. The spring is part of a scattered network of small thermal points that sustain traditional spa culture in this sparsely populated landscape of chestnut forests and wheat fields.
