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Las salineras artesanales de Salinas de Oro

Salinas de Oro/Jaitz, Tierra Estella, Navarra

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Las salineras artesanales de Salinas de Oro

Curiosity · Salinas de Oro/Jaitz, Tierra Estella, Navarra

Image of Salinas de Oro/Jaitz, not of the place itself.

Documented since at least 1492, though probably of earlier origin, the Jaitz salt works exploit a salt spring — with a salt concentration far higher than seawater — which evaporates in small pools in the sun and air, following an artisanal method that has changed little since the Middle Ages.

1492

Photo: Patxi Txokarro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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