Logo Logo Home salt Typology and extraction The Salt, historical notes Salt and health Certification Products Food Zootechnical Water softeners Road thaw Dishwasher Photogallery Request Contacts News The Salt, historical notes Although there may be someone who does not want gold, there has never been anyone who has not desired salt. Cassiodoro said in 523 AD Since time immemorial, salt has been a source of discord between nations always ready to go to war to win possession of the salt pans. Fundamental for the conservation of meat, fish, hides and for the survival of livestock, salt, grain of discord, sows war among populations and marks the destiny of entire civilizations The first known salt extraction plant dates back to prehistoric China. It was located in the northern Shansi province, near the Yuncheng Salt Lake, an area famous for the constant wars fought to gain control of the lake. Most of the Italian cities were built near the salt pans, starting from Rome, founded on the hills behind the salt pans at the mouth of the Tiber. Salt played a fundamental role in the construction of the Roman Empire. The first great Roman road, the Via Salaria, was built to transport salt to Rome and within the peninsula. Venice was the only Italian city that was not part of Roman history. Large producers but above all salt merchants, the medieval Venetians used the revenues obtained from the salt to subsidize the imports of cereals from other Mediterranean countries when the Italian harvests went bad. Providing salt to an ever-increasing number of countries, Venetian merchants expanded into the Mediterranean countries to secure the supply, control the salt flats and purchase them when they could. Venice, therefore, manipulated the markets by controlling production. Towards the end of the 13th century, to raise the price of the international market worldwide, he had all the salt flats in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt. No other state, with the exception of China, based its economy and policy on salt. The Aztecs militarily controlled the salt routes and sometimes denied their enemies access to salt. The Tlatochi had maintained independence from the Aztecs by abstaining from salt. The Spaniards acquired a good part of their power in Mexico by conquering the salt flats of the peoples they subdued. The great Mayan civilization became rich and powerful thanks to its control of salt production and its ability to trade, on a large scale, also salted products such as fish and hides. The first evidence of the Mayan salt production dates back to 1000 BC It was also used as a medicine: combined with marjoram and the leaves of the xul tree to control births; with epilepsy oil; with honey to relieve the pains of childbirth. In 1568 the Dutch, led by William of Orange, declared war on Spain because it did not allow them to access their own salt. The struggle for independence lasted 80 years. In 1759 the British understood that American trade did not respect the exclusively one-to-one relationship implied up to then but was heading towards independence. The Americans specialized in the production of salt to no longer have to submit to the economic whims of the motherland which responded with the imposition of punitive tariffs, taxes and more to discourage the trade of the colonies. The American war of independence (1763-1783) was being prepared, the longest ever fought until Vietnam. The naval blockade imposed by England in 1775 caused an immediate and severe shortage of salt. In addition to imposing a naval blockade, British soldiers isolated the Anglo-American colonies from their only sources of salt: New England and the south and then destroyed the salt flats. Bibliography: Sale A biography, Mark Kurlansky, ed. Rizzoli Distribution of Atisale Salt Timely and punctual delivery Read Saline Margherita of Savoy It is the most important maritime salt mine existing and operating in Europe today. The salt pan covers an area of 4,500 hectares of ... Volterra The salt by boiling is extracted from the Salina di Volterra in Tuscany, a salt from underground deposits and which refined ... Contacts To find out more, fill out the contact form. Some products Sea salt in cartons Washed Sea Salt Recrystallized sea salt Iodized salt Fine Dried Sea Salt Marino Iodato fine Sale Candor distribution Marino Iodato Grosso Fine Sea Salt Coarse sea salt Medium Dried Sea Salt Coarse Dried Sea Salt Centrifuged Washed Sea Salt Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook