Highlight • Natural Monument
Salt Flats of the Camargue
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Rainer Haseneder-Lind
November 17, 2019
Mountain biking
Again and again places along the route where the evaporated water has left a crust of salt. But leaving the path is not allowed!
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Thomas
April 2, 2023
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Even the Romans laid out extensive white and reddish shimmering salt marshes in the Camargue. Even today, the salt harvest is done by hand almost as it was 1500 years ago. Seawater is channeled into the salt marshes through a network of channels and pools. The wind and the sun evaporate the water, leaving behind the salt crystals, the fleur de sel. The salt content of the water is checked daily in the salt garden. Harvest time is late autumn.
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