the brine equally over the abundant number of salt pans. A salt workshop teaches them how to use the scoop of salt and how to collect the filtered salt in baskets. Those who wish to do so can walk up [...] stones - out of this, the salt workers of Salinas de Añana have created a unique man-made environment, looking like an abstract work of art from above. Everything is encrusted with salt, especially the terraced [...] terraced wooden structures that support the salt pans on the slopes of the narrow valley. The quality of the salt, extracted here over thousands of years, is globally unprecedented, and with tradition having
from salt wells several kilometres away. Production was modernised in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana Museum tells the story of salt production [...] Salt is an essential material for preserving food and for many industrial processes. It was produced from brine springs at Tuzla in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times. In 1884 a large new salt works [...] Neolithic period to the present day. It displays ancient wooden tools and artefacts preserved by the salt, workers' costumes, models and processing areas with evaporation pans.
The Salt Museum in Messolonghi, next to the salt pans of Tourlida, is the only themed museum in Greece dedicated to salt. Visitors can discover everything about salt: From the first appearance of salt on [...] different types of salt, their colours and their granulometry. From pink Himalayan salt to black Hawaiian salt, there is much to discover. The museum houses a collection of 1,500 salt shakers from the 19th [...] production process of salt, see old salt-making machinery and enjoy the magic of the lagoon and the lives of hundreds of rare birds that inhabit the lagoon's unique wetlands. The Salt Museum is a multifaceted
medical support and recreational facilities, and produced 250,000 tons of salt a year for export. The company Eni now produces salt for food production, road gritting and chemicals industries. Guided tours [...] the 1930s. A film brings the history of the industrialisation of Sardinia and the salt works to life. This area of the salt works is maintained and open to visitors by the FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano [...] artistic and landscape heritage. A 7-km journey by land-train passes between the mountains of salt and the salt lagoons colonised by flamingos, which extend for 2,700 hectares.
