Solivar, part of the city of Prešov, has been one of Europe’s principal sources of salt since the middle ages. Salt production continues today, and visitors can see a succession of monumental structures relating to the industry’s past. A ‘gapel’, a huge horse-operated device, with two 15 m arms in the shape of a cross was used to pump bring into a reservoir in which there are eight 1200-hectolitre tanks, from which it passed to the boiling room, the Varna Frantisek. Salt was stored in a Baroque building of 1780, that has been restored after a fire in 1986.