Description
Salt of the Templars – Natural Salt with Garlic from Rio Maior
A mixture of natural salt and garlic for use in food.
One of the most sea-loving features of this mountainous region is the ease with which rainwater penetrates through the rock faults. calearia, thus preventing the presence visible watercourses that hide, becoming underground. Some of these watercourses 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 Salinas de Rio Maior are the result of a whim of Nature. A salt mine from a saline spring, extensive and deep, crossed by an underground current, feeds a well from which water seven times saltier than that of the Atlantic Ocean is extracted. The oldest document that know dates back to 1177, but it is thought that the use of rock salt dates back to prehistoric times.
Supplier Name or Company and Address
Agricultural Cooperative of Salt Producers of Rio Maior, CRL
Main Street Marinhas do Sal, 2040-133 Rio Maior
SALT 100% NATURAL
NO ADDITIVES, MANUALLY AND TRADITIONALLY PRODUCED