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 an enchanting lake. Hallstatt is also customs, tradition, and history. For thousands of years, "white gold" – salt – has been mined here. The picturesque lakeside town is 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 for thousands of years the European-wide trade in the "white commodity" from Hallstatt flourished.