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Saline Conti Saltworks

An immense naturalistic area and an industrial archeology site within a still productive plant tell the story of the salt enterprise with period settings, immersive projections and a path between natural pools, salt mountains and wildlife.

Property entrusted in concession to Engineer Luigi Conti Vecchi and valued by the FAI

The longest-lived salt pans in Sardinia extend over the 2700 hectares of the Santa Gilla pond: for almost 90 years, man and nature have been working here in perfect synergy thanks to the far-sighted enterprise of Eng. Conti Vecchi who, at the end of the 1920s, carried out an ambitious project to reclaim the pond by planting a colossal salt pan and thus contributing to the economic and social development of this depressed area on the edge of the city.

The result was a flourishing, virtuous and avant-garde industrial reality: an eco-sustainable and self-sufficient production plant around which a 'salt community' orbited with houses, schools and recreational facilities for the families of owners, managers and workers who lived together in the village of Macchiareddu.

After the war, in the 1970s the complex passed to SIR Rumianca and in 1984, following the energy and industrial crisis, it was assigned by law to Eni which, over time, started an industrial redevelopment and reclamation project through Eni Rewind - a company that provides integrated services in the field of environmental remediation - and which in 2017 entrusted the FAI with the enhancement of this cultural and landscape heritage.

A story that has now become a story in which to immerse yourself in the historic areas of the Management, Offices and Chemical Laboratory, restored to their original appearance, as they were in the 1930s.

A leap in time that is accompanied by large and evocative video projections in the workshop and in the former carpentry, dedicated to the history and functioning of the salt pans and their landscape where, finally, one enters on board a special convoy along an itinerary which winds its way between salty pools and white mountains of salt, immersed in an unusual and memorable setting populated by hundreds of pink flamingos (Ph.: Andrea Mariniello - ENI)

Opening times:h.9:30-13:30h.16:30-20:30

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