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Conti Vecchi Saltworks
09100 Cagliari
This element belongs to the categories: Naturalistic areas of great interest, Wetlands and ponds
Opening hours:
Conti Vecchi Saltworks can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Monday)
The tour lasts two hours and includes a free tour into the historical buildings (approximately 1 hour), and a guided tour by train (1 hour). The tour by train starts every hour (last tour 90 minutes before closing time).
Opening times:
Conti Vecchi Saltworks can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Monday)
from 8 January to 2 March: closed to the public (open by reservation only for schools and groups)
from 3 March to 31 May: 10.00 am-6,00 pm
from 1 June to 31 August: 9.30 am-12.30 pm/ 4.30 pm-8.30 pm
from 1 September to 31 October: 10.00 am-6.00 pm
from 1 November to 7 January: 10.00 am-5.00 pm
Prices:
Tickets:
Adults 7 euros ( 8 euros from January)
Kids (4-14 years old) 3 euros
Students 5 euros
Families 20 euros
Free admission for FAI members, members of National Trust, residents of Assemini and employees of "Syndial" and "Ing. Luigi Conti Vecchi S.p.a.".
Provided services:
- Toilet
- Car park
The Saltworks are part of the Ramsar site of the Pond of Cagliari. They strech on a surface of 2700 hectars belonging to the towns of Assemini, Elmas, Capoterra and Cagliari, representing one of the most important and extended wet lands in Europe, with a high level of biodiversity. The area is also the perfect natural habitat for several bird species: in winter, more than 36.000 specimens live in the Saltworks. They belong to 50 different species, but the greater part of them are pink flamingoes.
In 1931, the engineer Luigi Conti Vecchi started here a business project with an innovative spirit of economical and environmental sustainability: reclaiming the marsh Pond of Santa Gilla and creating a Saltwork, to turn this underused land into a productive area. Nowadays, the Saltworks are still exploited: they produce salt both for chemical productions and for alimentary purpose, and are included in a larger industrial area owned by Syndial, a society belonging to Eni group which deals with environmental rehabilitation.
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