General Information 
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The Rio Zêzere, drifting through the
Lagoa de Cabril
, the longest waterreservoir bedded in this idyllic landscape, 60 km large and 120 m deep, the biggest on the Iberic peninsula, brings clearest cristal water from around the mountains, rich quantity of various sorts of fish as carps or trouts. Great oportunities for fishing ! .. and swimming, sailing, kajaking or trekking in the valleys
. Numerous natural river-swimming aereas attract for leisure summer afternoons with the family or alone.
Views and adresses of popular river beaches
Location and Clima
To Lisbon it is a drive of 232 kms over the IC8 and the highway, to Porto about 190 kms
. The nearest biggest city is Coimbra, 70 km away. The Atlantic is 90 km less than one hour by car over the highway. The region is influenced from continental clima and that causes long warm summers, from may to end of september. Mild winters, moody between dry and friendly and rainy and wet.
Medical Care
There are several hospitals in the area with the main hospital for specialist treatments located in the City of Coimbra 70 kms away. 
A pharmacy can always be found nearby and the hospitals, where the nursing staff will be found to be dedicated and sympathetic, are modernising at an amazing pace. The most modern equipment can be found everywhere and methods of treatment and investigative procedures are now probably on a par with any other European country - this change has been observed in a period of only 8 years. The local Provincial hospitals and private clinics offer specialist consultations and treatments, served usually by specialists coming in from the cities on regular days. Operations are also done but the more serious cases will be sent to the Coimbra University Hospital which is considered to be amongst the top in the world, especially for orthopaedics.
Culture and Entertainment
