The municipality of Sant Josep de Sa Talaia will welcome your II Fair of the Salt. It will come to life on October 28 and 29 to spread the heritage and culture of the Ibizan salt industry among tourists and residents. An event that will feature various activities and will stage how this product was manually collected.
Salt Fair
It is a way of pay tribute and to remember all those people who work and who worked in the salt. An activity that has generated great wealth on the island for centuries. The Salt Fair it will be a date free and open to the public. It is organized by the Balearic Government, By the Consell de Eivissa and Sant Josep de Sa Talaia Town Hall.
A mandatory gastrocultural visit on the island
The activities included in this Salt Fair will be added to those already carried out in the Ses Salines d'Eivissa Natural Park. They will form a new offer for tourists and residents who want to know a little better the history of the island. The inauguration of the Salt Fair recovers the tradition of the bonfire in 'L'Era de l'Antic Munt de Sal'.
This marked the beginning of the collection of the product and served as a call to work for all the salineros on the island. As a central act, a recreación that will stage how they worked in a traditional way. The actors will be dressed as salineros, with the costume they usually wore. In those days, many were engaged in this tough profession.
They will also use the typical tools from the beginning of the last century. A task that it was not mechanized until 1955. Las Salinas They will also reproduce the traditional salt harvesting process. The start of the event will be with a 'fogueró'. How it was done in the past to call salineros to work.
A souvenir of the island's salt activity
La II Salt Fair will also host talks and exhibitions in 'The ship'. It is the old salt warehouse, taught by authentic salineros and historians to explain their experiences. As well as the importance that this product has had for the island since ancient times.
Also, the collecting salt in authentic gear and clothing. There will be a theatrical representation in the Sa Sal Rossa Tower, from where this product was monitored. Guided tours of the Natural Park, among other activities.
During the Fair, Attendees will also be able to know the uses of salt. It was used as preservative for bones, olives and fish. Also to taste even some bears with cabbage, traditional dish based on salted pork bones.
The folk group of Sant Jordi de Ses Salines The traditional dance will be performed and the ritual of the 'Salpassa'. At that time, the parish priest blessed the houses, leaving water and salt at the door for their protection.
A place to enjoy the scenery
El Ses Salines d'Eivissa Natural Park It is one of the most surprising places in the Illes Balears and a true paradise. Salt turns the landscape into a postcard. It's about a protected enclave since 2001, with an area of 2.838 hectares.
They arrive until Salt pans of Formentera, to which are added 13.000 marine hectares of It's Freus. This is the strait of about 6,3 kilometers that connects the two islands.
La Salt Fair it is a sample that tries to recover the importance of this industry. For centuries it was one of the most important in the Mediterranean coast and whose extraction continues today with traditional methods very similar. All this leaves us with pictures like his incredible white mountains of salt, almost unreal, that shape a unique landscape.
