ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION AREA “THE SALTÌ”

Among the estates surrounding the salt pans, there is a field of cultivation of uns 6.000 m2 , it is in this field that the installation of a Youth Camp with a double objective is decided: Promote and promote the installation and act as an economic engine for the association and the salt flats restoration project. The rest of the estates are a stream with an oak forest in a very good state of conservation (suitable for educational itineraries on the knowledge of the flora and fauna of the environment), and two kissing a mountain where we find an ecosystem of Mediterranean scrub represented and another of a cleared forest of oaks with an undergrowth of boxwood.

– In a first intervention IT HAS BEEN DONE the flattening of the farm into two terraces to be able to separate the security and camping areas thanks to a grant from 6.000,00 contributed by the General Secretariat of Youth of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The farm, of 80 m wide would be divided into one of 12 m wide for 75 depth where the parking lot would be located, and another 65m wide for 75 depth that would be used as a camping site and play area. This flattening will involve a significant movement of earth due to the great unevenness of the property, the restoration of the old stream that disappeared when the land was flattened to dedicate it to agriculture, so every time there is considerable rain, the water floods the farm and the construction of a bridge over the stream to give access to the western part of the salt pans. In order to be able to create work fields, and thanks to a grant from the Railways of the Generalitat the municipal drinking water has been brought in the salt pans and this year, 2006 we built a water pond as a fire station subsidized by the Department of the Environment through the collaboration and management of the A.D.F.. of the area. Also, thanks to the town council that has let us connect to an electrical outlet of their property and to a subsidy of 10.000,00 € contributed by the General Secretariat of Youth, we have been allowed to have electricity since the summer of 2006.

– In a second phase, the construction of a large building that would house two warehouses would take place, a kitchen, a dining room, i the sink area, showers and washrooms, with the corresponding aseptic melts. At the end of this phase, the field would be opened to the public with an area where tents could be pitched.

– In a third phase, several infrastructures would be built (bungalow type) to be able to accommodate a total of 125 persones, and trees would be planted in the tent area in order to provide shade, even though part of the forest that exists to the south of the farm is planned to be arranged as a shadow area from the start.

The three phases of the construction are planned to be carried out with the resources that the association can generate with its activities and with the aid that, both by the administration and by private institutions can be achieved.

We want this area to function as a cultural project, pedagògic i medioambiental, which can burn both the recovery and exploitation of the salt pans, ( either at an ethnological level or considering an industrial background) like the immediate environment, and the cultural and ethnographic heritage of the town (cultural elements, artistic, monumental, landscape, items of interest,…

HEM FET SALT

“2007” and!!! we managed to make SAL!!!

A week of intense struggle to be able to waterproof one of the old eras … now we can enjoy its fruit, a pinch of salt for each as a souvenir of the labor camp, and so much that it was worth it!!!!

“2009”

We are back for the second year to do it and the rain cancels it two days before the European Heritage Days

“2010”

this summer, we collect it and start presenting it to the public

“2011”

Bad summer for salt, the weather was not favorable and we collected half of last year.