Logbook · 28 places

Salt-making tradition of Santa Pola

Santa Pola, El Baix Vinalopó, Alicante

1 Villages · 9 Monuments · 4 Nature · 6 Activities · 3 Curiosities · 3 Historical milestones · 2 Food and drink

Spain › Valencian Community › Alicante › El Baix Vinalopó › Santa Pola › Salt-making tradition of Santa Pola

Salt-making tradition of Santa Pola

Curiosity · Santa Pola, El Baix Vinalopó, Alicante

Image of Santa Pola, not of the place itself.

The Santa Pola salt flats maintain a centuries-old tradition of salt extraction, with landscapes of white salt mountains. The present-day maritime salt flats began producing salt by solar evaporation of seawater in 1900 and occupy, together with the wetland they generated, an area of 2,470 hectares declared a nature park in 1994. Today the Bras del Port and BonMatí salt flats remain in operation, in a coexistence between industrial activity and nature that has made the site a wetland of great ecological value.

Photo: Concepcion AMAT ORTA… (CC BY 3.0)

What to see and do in Santa Pola