Tradicional salt harvesting
The cultural heritage of Piran salt-pans embraces the centuries-old life and work of the salters on the NE coast of the Adriatic Sea. Of the once numerous salt-pans in the Gulf of Trieste, only those at Sečovlje and Strunjan have been preserved, due to which their testimonial value has become even greater, placing them to the level of ethnological, technical, historical, settlement and landscape heritage of exceptional concern.
The salt-pans' immovable cultural heritage encloses their salt-fields, channels and banks with stone walls, steps and sluices, salt-pan houses with their immediate surroundings, paths, bridges, pumps, etc.
The Strunjan and Sečovelje salt-pans are the only pans along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, where salt is made, with traditional methods in the entire process, through daily gathering in brine on the biosediment - the petola.