What we do?
We care about our tradition to promote harvesting of salt which has been passed on for over 4000 years and since then salt is produced in the same way with only the assistance of the sea, sun and wind. Solana Ston consists of 58 pools divided into 5 groups as the whole sat producing process has to go through five stages which last one to two months depending on weather conditions.There are nine pools for the crystallization process and all but one Mundo (world) are named after saints (Francis, Nicholas, Balthazar, Anthony, Joseph, John, Peter and Paul).
So we visited saltwork during the Festival of salt ,interacting with other students making pictures of salt .We also did the harvesting in the old way.Students joined the facebook page "Solana Ston Salinas",where we found all the relevant info abuot the event.Students learned that salt is produced by a process of sea water evaporation in the big shallow pools of the salt pans and the harvest and salt production takes place during the summer months, more precisely from April to October. From the nine crystelization pools you can harvest about 500 tons of salt annually. We bought some samples of flower salt and did the specification (chemical analysis )of salt back at school,finding it has the best proportion of Nacl (98,5-99,1).
This saltwork is a top class historical monument and is a very populatr tourist site
Why we do it?
The method of salt production has not changed over the centuries and in such environmentally friendly and healthy conditions guarantees maintanance of excellent salt quality which meets all the needs of today's modern times.We are proud to be the followers of a tradition and healthy environment!
