Roman salting tanks under the Old Town, abandoned salt pans on the Ria de Alvor and the hand-raked flor de sal that survives in the eastern Algarve: the story of salt in Lagos.
Tag: Food & sea
The Gritty, Glorious Age of Canning: What Really Happened to the Algarve’s Sardines
For decades Lagos ran on sardines, brine and the call of the canning-factory siren. How the boom happened, why the fish nearly vanished, and what is really on your plate today.