Today, Sicily runs on almost everything except salt ... It rose in telltale clumpy mounds, the mark of sea salt still holding a bit of the moisture of the ancient salt pans. When we put it on our ...

Fly over Trapani, where the shimmering Mediterranean meets ancient salt pans, historic baroque streets ... Powerful winds cause cruise ship chaos in Sicily, passengers fall into water Meghan ...

Stagnone, meaning “large pool,” is home to Sicily’s famous salt pans, first constructed by the Phoenicians some 2,700 years ago. It was one of the most unusual sites I’d seen in Sicily ...

Should you want to sample Sicily’s extraordinary gastronomic ... A stroll along the rocky paths that divide the silty salt pans, the sun dappling the water under an azure sky, brings to ...

salt-pans is not only extraordinary but it also ... He spent the years 1776 to 1779 travelling in Sicily, Lipari, and Malta, after which he published numerous, lavishly-illustrated travel books ...

Very often with the complicity of the guardians of the regional autonomy. The history of the salt pans of Cagliari, which have always been dedicated to the engineer Luigi Conti Vecchi, from whom ...