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: History
The Octopus and the Layers: Why Lagos is Europe’s Best-Kept Secret
Under the cobbles of the Old Town sit Iron Age Lacobriga, a Roman fish-salting town, Moorish Zawaia and the harbour of the Age of Discoveries. A first walk through the layers of Lagos.
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.