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FAI - Saline Conti Vecchi - Conti Vecchi Salt Flats

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  • FAI - Saline Conti Vecchi - Conti Vecchi Salt Flats
Must See FAI - Saline Conti Vecchi - Conti Vecchi Salt Flats

Sardinia's most long-established saltworks stretches across the 2.700 hectares of the Santa Gilla basin: for almost 90 years, mankind and nature have been working in perfect synergy thanks to the far-sighted ambition of engineer Luigi Conti Vecchi who, in the late 1920s, implemented a pioneering project to reclaim the basin by building an immense saltworks and, in the process, contributing to the economic and social development of this depressed area on the outskirts of the city. There arose a flourishing, virtuous and forward-looking business: an eco-sustainable, self-sufficient chemical plant around which orbited a ‘salt community’ endowed with houses, schools and recreational facilities for the families of the owners, managers and employees who lived together in the village of Macchiareddu.

 

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