SAL DE AÑANA

Salt Valley in the town of Salinas de Añana (Basque Country) produce one of the best salt varieties in the World: Añana Salt. Its quality is based on this fully traditional productions System and on the opinión of some of the best cooks in the world.

Salt Valley of Añana is a unique landscape subject to a recovery process that consists in thousands of plataforms or salt -pans, channels, Wells and strorage áreas. Añana Salt is the fruit of the natural evaporation of the brine from the valley´´s springs. The crystallisation process is based on three factors: the sun, the wind and the traditional techniques used by yhe salt - workers.

Cooks of prestige are the Añana Salt ambassadors value the quality and use it in their restaurants. they also help to disseminate the recovery and conservation os the Cultural Landscape of the Añana Salt Valley, recognized with the GrandnJury´s Award of the European Unión Prize for Cultural Heritage/ Europa Nostra Awards 2015/ GIHAS 2017

Añana Salt is classified as Slow Food Presidia, the máximum recognition that gives this international movement that promotes natural, ecological and quality products.