Try It Out: Daily Salt Tasting in Hallstatt

Hallstatt is so much more than a small, tranquil town nestled at the foot of majestic mountains and on the shores of a magical lake. Hallstatt is also custom, tradition, and history. For thousands of years, the "white gold" – salt – has been mined here. The picturesque lake town is therefore so famous that an entire era was named after it – the Hallstatt period. For millennia, salt was the only way to preserve food over a longer period, and so the Europe-wide trade in the "white goods" from Hallstatt flourished for thousands of years.