Añana Salt Valley

The Añana salt flats, 30 km from Vitoria are one of the oldest salt factories in the world, with more than 6,500 years of history. Its prized salt is completely pure, as it comes from an ancient sea of more than 200 million years. The Salt Valley in the town of Añana is currently one of the most spectacular and best-preserved cultural landscapes in Europe. Its value lies not only in its unique architecture or in its more than 6,500 years of documented of history, not even in its geological characteristics, its biodiversity or in its prized landscapes, but in the union in perfect harmony of all this in a privileged context. in the oldest town in Alava, and in what were waters of a vast sea 200 million years ago, stands the Salt Valley of Añana. A magnificent outdoor cultural landscape (monument) formed over more than 5,000 years. A unique and extensive network of wooden channels distribute the water to the most remote corners of the Salt Valley.