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By FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano

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Overview

    • Feast your eyes on bright pink flamingos against the stark white salt mountains
    • Learn about the historic value of "white gold" and daily life of a salt worker
    • Discover historical artefacts from the saltworks including documents and tools
    • Understand how engineers like Luigi Conti Vecchi drove the region's development
    • Take a train ride into Santa Gilla Basin to visit the salt flats and salt pans

Activity location

    • Cagliari
    • Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • FAI - Saline Conti Vecchi, Saline Conti Vecchi, 09032 Assemini CA, Italia | The saltworks are located in the industrial area of Cagliari called Assemini / Macchiareddu. Enter the industrial area and use the free parking inside. Leave your car there and then walk to the bookshop at the main entrance.
    • Assemini, Sardegna, Italy

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Cagliari: Conti Vecchi Saltworks Train Tour

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • Italian

This experience includes a self-guided tour inside the museum and a guided tour of the saltworks on the little train. It lasts about two hours.

Language options: Italian
Price details
€6.00 x 2 Youths€12.00
Total
Price is €12.00

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Guide
  • Inclusions
    Entry ticket to the Conti Vecchi Salt Flats
  • Inclusions
    Visit old buildings and watch two videos
  • Inclusions
    1-hour train ride inside the salt flats and naturalistic area
  • Exclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off

Know before you book

    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

  • Discover the “white gold” of the Saline Conti Vecchi on a scenic train ride through the salt pans of the Santa Gilla Lagoon, Sardinia’s most important wetland. Keep an eye out for pink flamingos in their natural habitat, admire the towering mountains of white salt and stroll through the salt pans. Along the way, learn about Luigi Conti Vecchi’s pivotal role in the region’s economic development and about daily life in Macchiareddu, the historic saltworks village. Don’t forget to snap a few photos before heading back to the museum, where your visit ends.

Location

Activity location

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    • Cagliari
    • Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • FAI - Saline Conti Vecchi, Saline Conti Vecchi, 09032 Assemini CA, Italia | The saltworks are located in the industrial area of Cagliari called Assemini / Macchiareddu. Enter the industrial area and use the free parking inside. Leave your car there and then walk to the bookshop at the main entrance.
    • Assemini, Sardegna, Italy