The main objective of the ECOSAL ATLANTIS project, "Ecotourism in saltworks of the Atlantic: a strategy for integral and sustainable development" is the development of joint, integral and sustainable tourism based on the cultural and natural heritage of traditional Atlantic saltworking sites.

The project focuses on three key activities designed to develop tourism in Atlantic saltworking sites: Heritage, Territorial development, Biodiversity and Nature tourism.

The project, led by the Provincial Council of Alava, has 12 partners from four countries in the Atlantic Area.

The Atlantic route

Many characteristics are shared by the traditional salt working sites of France, Spain, Portugal and the UK integrated in the ‘Traditional Saltmaking the Atlantic Route’ of the Ecosal Atlantis project. These include a vibrant common identity together with significant biological, economic and cultu ral potential in which the role of salt goes beyond a mere commodity and becomes a way of life.

Plan your route through these cultural lands capes of great beauty where the different traditional practices designed by salt wor kers to exploit water have resulted in unique places where flats, lagoons, channels and walls combine with the pure white of salt.

The rhythms of nature and human activity have resulted in this heritage which is now open to visitors with a view to enhancing the value of traditional salt production sys tems and halting their decline. Each one is unique, discover them.



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