Give It a Try: Daily Salt Tasting in Hallstatt

Hallstatt is so much more than a small, tranquil town nestled at the foot of mighty 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 lakeside 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 for longer periods, and the trade in the "white goods" from Hallstatt flourished across Europe for thousands of years.