Templar Salt (1kg)

Description

Salt from the Rio Maior salt mines

One of the most sea-loving characteristics of this mountainous region is the ease with which rainwater penetrates through the faults in the limestone rock, thus preventing the visible presence of hidden streams, which become underground. Some of these streams become salty as they pass through the rock salt deposit.

This deposit occupies approximately the area of Portuguese Estremadura, between Leiria and Torres Vedras, and was formed over millions of years.

The Rio Maior Salt Pans are the result of a whim of Nature. A deep, extensive salt mine with a saline spring, traversed by an underground current, feeds a well from which water seven times saltier than the Atlantic Ocean is extracted. The oldest known document dates back to 1177, but it is thought that the use of rock salt dates back to prehistoric times.

SALT 100% NATURAL

NO ADDITIVES, MANUALLY AND TRADITIONALLY PRODUCED