AN OPEN AIR POOL OF SALT WATER IN A VENETIAN VILLA

Venice, Italy

A very large swimming pool set in a luxuriant park of a Venetian villa in the Verona area. An oasis to relax and enjoy the summer heat or a healthy swim in salt water, to feel like you are at the sea. This is the customer's request.

Salt water pools are highly appreciated for their countless advantages and are often considered a new concept solution: in reality, one of the first seawater pools was designed in 1948 by Giò Ponti, a famous designer and artist, and can be admired still today at the Royal Hotel in Sanremo.

Taking advantage of the therapeutic properties of salt water means helping our skin and our health; but which stone resists saline corrosion? The answer is the Vrsar Stone. Our ancestors teach us with their experience that the solution exists: Venice's splendid monuments, bridges and palaces are built with the Orsera Stone, an ivory stone capable of withstanding continuous contact with the sea water. You will surely have seen it without knowing it: examples of monuments in Orsera stone are the Bridge of Sighs, the Rialto Bridge and the Doge's Palace.

The Orsera stone has been quarried for over two thousand years in the Istrian peninsula and was already used in Roman times. The oldest monument made with this stone, built in the 1st century AD, is the Arena of the city of Pula in Croatia.

It is a compact and not very porous cliff limestone, ivory in color with slight shades of pale pink and pale gray that turns white over time.