These are the oldest salt pans in Lanzarote, they were the only ones until the mid-19th century, when other salt pans began to proliferate until there were 15 on the entire island. Already in the middle of the 20th century, when other methods of food preservation were extended, the salt pans were disappearing or being abandoned, like these.

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The oldest salt pans of the Canary Islands

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