Excursion Salt park trolley with flamingos tour at Cagliari

An immense naturalistic area and an industrial archeology site inside a still productive plant tell the story of the salt enterprise with period installations, immersive projections and a journey through natural pools, mountains of salt and wildlife.

The longest-lived salt pans in Sardinia extend over the 2700 hectares of the Santa Gilla pond: for almost 90 years, man and nature have been working here in perfect synergy thanks to the far-sighted enterprise of Eng. Conti Vecchi who, at the end of the 1920s, carried out an ambitious project to reclaim the pond by planting a colossal salt pan and thus contributing to the economic and social development of this depressed area on the edge of the city. A story that has now become a story to immerse yourself in by walking through the historic environments of the Management, Offices and Chemical Laboratory, restored to their original appearance, as they were in the 1930s.

A leap in time accompanied by large and evocative video projections in the Workshop and in the former Carpentry shop, dedicated to the history and functioning of the Salt Pans and their landscape where, finally, you enter aboard a special convoy along an itinerary which winds its way between salt pans and white mountains of salt, immersed in an unusual and memorable scenery populated by hundreds of birds including pink flamingos.

Points of interests

points of interest seen on this excursion may include: Saline Conti Vecchi, Laguna di Santa Gilla, Trolley train ride