{"product_id":"escamas-atlanticas","title":"Atlantic Scales","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe Valle Salado de Añana, in Álava in the Basque Country, is the oldest active salt-production site in\u0026nbsp;the world. Continuous salt extraction has gone on here for more than seven thousand years — from\u0026nbsp;the Neolithic onward; in 902 the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña was already documented mining\u0026nbsp;salt at the valley, and in 1140 the town of Salinas de Añana was granted a royal charter by King\u0026nbsp;Alfonso VI partly because of the strategic and economic importance of its salt. The geology is the\u0026nbsp;inheritance: the valley sits on a vast subterranean salt deposit left by an ancient sea that disappeared\u0026nbsp;some two hundred million years ago, in the Triassic period. Rainwater percolates through the deep\u0026nbsp;salt and resurfaces as concentrated brine through four natural springs at roughly seven times Atlantic\u0026nbsp;salinity. The brine is channelled by gravity through pinewood aqueducts to hundreds of evaporation\u0026nbsp;terraces of dry stone, wood and clay, where the salt is extracted by sun and wind. No pumping, no\u0026nbsp;electricity. The site is a Bien de Interés Cultural, a UNESCO tentative-list World Heritage candidate,\u0026nbsp;and a FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. Atlantic Scales is the flor de sal of the\u0026nbsp;valley — the delicate surface crystals that form on warm, still days, harvested by hand into pyramid-shaped, snow-white grains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"zales-and-rego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57456675225983,"sku":"EP-2203","price":17.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/9439\/8847\/files\/escamas-atlanticas2.png?v=1777887260","url":"https:\/\/www.zalesrego.com\/en\/products\/escamas-atlanticas","provider":"Zales \u0026 Rego","version":"1.0","type":"link"}