Centro Arqueolóxico de Salinae

Om museet

The Roman saltworks of the Arenal were discovered in 1998, during works for a health centre on Calle Rosalía de Castro in Vigo. It is a marine saltworks using solar evaporation that operated between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD and was devoted to producing salt on a large scale. It is the only example of its kind to have survived and been put on display anywhere in the Roman Empire.

The health centre project was modified in order to preserve the site, which opened to the public in 2009 under the management of the Museo do Mar de Galicia and the Xunta de Galicia. The state of preservation of the basins makes it possible to understand how a saltworks operated and how salt was obtained at surface level.

The exhibition traces the history of the site through its stratigraphic sequence and the materials found, presents the properties of salt and the ways of obtaining it, explains the Roman industry of salted fish and fish sauces in Vigo, reconstructs the landscape around the saltworks and includes a selection of Roman recipes. A final section covers the evolution of the saltworks after Rome.

Højdepunkter

• The only preserved Roman solar-evaporation saltworks in the Empire, put on display
• Basins from the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD visible on the site itself
• Reconstruction of the landscape and ecosystem of the saltworks
• Exhibition on the world of salt and the Roman salted-fish industry
• Route adapted for people with mobility difficulties

Permanent udstilling

• La salina romana y el mundo de la sal – Exhibition on the discovery of the site, its two-thousand-year history, the operation of the Roman saltworks, the salted-fish and fish-sauce industry and the evolution of saltworks after Rome.

Grundlagt

2009

Ejer

Museo do Mar de Galicia (Xunta de Galicia)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

Free visit.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The visit to the archaeology centre is adapted for people with mobility difficulties.

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