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

The Salt Museumis located in an old salt works within the Natural Park of Salinas, where salt water has been evaporated for centuries to make salt. The small museum that shows with original equipment and [...] of extraction of salt in the past and present. It explains the characteristics and uses of salt and its importance in human history. It includes many historic artefacts and samples. Salt extraction remains [...] white salt can be seen in many places. There are viewing windows over the salt lagoons, which are an important habitat for wildlife that has been protected partly because it was needed for the salt industry

trace of salt production in Marsal. Salt-loving plants still flourish on the ground, whereas salt-loving people prefer to pay a visit to the local Salt Museum. Everything is tasteless without salt. Even the [...] the barracks, replicas of a salt oven and the "briquetagen" (coarse ceramic vessels) show visitors how salt cakes were dried out in clay pots. The museum follows the path of salt from its discovery to its [...] Marsal’s existence is built on salt. The village in Saulnois, (German: Salzgau) on the tiny River Seille was created on top of a pile of broken clay. Around 1000 BC brine from salt ponds was dried in clay pots;

Museum “Westphalian Salt Experience” traces 5.000 years of history that salt and brine made along the ancient trade route of the Hellweg and it sheds light on various aspects of salt that are less known [...] subterranean deposits of rock salt, surfaced along the Westphalian mountains ranges so that – since antiquity – salt was produced from brine. The exhibition explains the origins of salt and brine, shows various [...] the use of all your senses while experiencing the museum. The "Westphalian Salt Route" leads – ideally by bike – to sites of salt history between Unna and Salzkotten.

as one of the most important European salt works and even as a salt capital of the Middle Ages. The German Salt Museum/Industriedenkmal Saline Lüneburg [Lüneburg Salt Works Industrial Heritage Site] has [...] The main topics are the history of salt in the city of Lüneburg and the general global importance of salt in the past, present and future. The grounds of the German Salt Museum include several buildings [...] important salt production processes using the technology available in 1980. The centrepiece is the salt works’ last surviving boiling pan (160m2). The building also houses an integrated salt-drying facility

manufacture salt in large amounts. The production of salt, which still continues today, is indicated by the name "Hallstatt", because the german syllable "Hall-" goes back to the greek word salt. In the Hallstatt [...] dried sea salt. These three traditional ways of salt production have already been described by the roman scholar Pliny the elder in his "Natural History". The beginnings of many famous salt works which [...] ON THE HISTORY OF SALT EXTRACTION Listen For thousands of years salt has been a very important material: it was not just used for seasoning, but was needed much more as a preservative. Before ice boxes

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

peninsula north of Århus. Salt has been produced in the area since the middle ages and the salt centre provides a wide-ranging introduction to its history. Pans that were used to produce salt by boiling sea water [...] elevator takes visitors to experience the working conditions in a salt mine. The collection of artefacts includes more than 2,000 salt cellars. There are imaginative interactive displays, and educational [...] educational programmes are provided for schoolchildren who are able to manufacture salt in a laboratory. One of the most unusual experiences offered by the centre is the opportunity to bathe in a pool that has

The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt pans [...] in the Mediterranean or the Black Sea. Much of the salt they produced was used in the preservation of cod. Developments during the ALAS (All about Salt) project at Figuera de la Foz included the restoration [...] a whole salina, the Corredore de Cobra, the reconstruction of a traditional salt warehouse, and the establishment of a salt museum.

the temperature of the furnaces, raking the salt, filling the tubs and baking it dry. Working in a traditional salt-works was anything but a push-over! Salt-making was not only damaging to the works it [...] This is why practical demonstrations of salt making in small salt pans are only available at certain times. Now at the latest you realise that a visit to the Lion Salt Works is the quintessence of industrial [...] can be seen at the Lion Salt Works in Marston near Northwich, the last of its kind in the county of Cheshire. Cheshire is justifiably proud of its thousand year old history of salt making. The last traces

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 Wieliczka Salt Mine is listed as a World Heritage Site, as is the neighbouring historic castle with its unique collection of salt shakers and a vaulted basement that traces local salt production back [...] of the sudden, a world of salt deep underground surrounds the visitor. Miles of galleries, winding stairs, towering halls, groups of sculptures and reliefs carved out of salt in the chandelier light of [...] luxurious 19th-century mining railway for royal visitors, miraculously shaped salt columns and crystals as well as greenish shimmering salt lakes dot the trail through the underworld. Actually, there are three

well as salt-making. The salt pans at nearby Secovlje occupy almost 700 ha. Several pans have been restored, and salt continues to be made by traditional methods. Plans have been prepared for a salt landscape [...] landscape park in the area. A two-storey house, where a salt-maker’s family lived on the first floor and stored salt on the ground floor was restored in 1991.

(weigh, grind, pack or sack) so the salt was ready for sale. The salt was carried to the “Casa de la Sal” by a drove of mules, they came into the first floor where the salt was weighed and afterwards it was [...] Salt has always been the element which has marked Gerri people’s fate and the village’s image. The salt production, there are records from the IX century which prove that, became a profitable business [...] business in the late 19th century. The salt exploitation is due to a salted spring a few meters far from the centre of the village. The water comes out at a temperature of 21º C, with an average density of sodium

dug into the sands has a strength of between 12 % and 16 % of salt. In the middle ages salt was worked on a large scale. Seventeen medieval salt huts have been excavated, but perhaps as many as two thousand [...] until the early 1950s. Salt production ceased in the first half of the 18th century after all the woodland on the island had been felled. Since 1991 the Laeso Saltsyderi has produced salt on the island by methods [...] visitors per annum, employs ten local people and has a contract to supply high quality salt to the makers of Lurpak butter. Salt is also sold to visitors and to quality restaurants and specialist food shops all

Two groups of salt pans on the Laguna dello Stagnone on the western coast of Sicily, opposite the island of Mothia and alongside the ‘salt road’ from Trapani to Marsala, are managed by the travel company [...] centuries-old landscape of salt working, with three windmills that pump the water from one pan to another when its salinity has increased. The traditional methods of harvesting salt with rake-like implements [...] ed. There are guided tours of the pans, as well as a one-hour trip by boat around the lagoon. The salt produced around Marsala is highly regarded, and can be purchased at the site.

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.

the history of salt mining and processing and of the spa, opened in May 2003 in an early eighteenth century house that was formerly the residence of a salt taxation official. The Salt Mountain near the [...] is important for its salt mines. It was developed as a resort, with warm saline baths, from 1885, and is still a centre for the treatment of varied diseases. There are records of salt mining from 1685, but [...] metres of rock salt were extracted. There are 14 chambers up to 54 m high, which have been put to other uses since the mine closed. One of the chambers, the Genesis Hall, contains salt sculptures of scenes

which, Loix en Ré is the centre of the ecomuseum devoted to the manufacture of sea salt. The large scale production of salt on Ré began in the fifteenth century, and uses methods similar to those employed [...] when crystals of salt begin to appear on the surface between June and September they are harvested by a raking process, described on Ré by the word ‘saunier’ (which means to make salt) and elsewhere in [...] explain the technology of salt production by means of models, and then take visitors on short tours of some of the lagoons. An introduction is provided to the botany and bird life of salt marshes, to such plants

annual production was over 124,000 tonnes of rock salt in 1989. There are now 35km of tunnels. The mine still produces rock salt under the name TechSalt. The mine is in the town, at the eastern end of Rua [...] Rock salt was discovered under Loulé in the 1950s and in 1964 work began to sink two access shafts. A gallery was cut between the shafts at a depth of 230m (30m below sea-level) to allow ventilation. The [...] formations 230 million years old and learn about the development of mining processes and the uses of rock salt.