Give It a Try: Daily Salt Tasting in Hallstatt

Hallstatt is so much more than a small, tranquil village nestled at the foot of mighty mountains and on the shores of an enchanting lake. Hallstatt is also tradition, custom, and history. For thousands of years, the "White Gold" – salt – has been mined here. The picturesque lakeside town is so famous that an entire epoch was named after it – the Hallstatt period. For millennia, salt was the only way to preserve food for an extended period, and so the European-wide trade with the "white goods" from Hallstatt flourished for thousands of years.