Sea salt is obtained simply by letting seawater evaporate inside large tanks set up on the coast: salt pans, that is. The essential elements for the birth of salt, then, are three: sea water, sun and wind. In front of the Trapani coast (between Trapani, Paceco and Marsala) in an evocative setting of water, windmills and white pyramids that turn pink as the sun goes down, there is an important productive reality, and not only industrial. The whole area falls within two splendid protected areas: the oriented nature reserve of the salt pans of Trapani and Paceco and the Stagnone salt pans (in the municipality of Marsala).
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