Tanques de Salga - Olhão, Portugal
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Torgut
N 37° 02.011 W 007° 48.710
29S E 605674 N 4099250
This are salting tanks which used to be part of a Roman farm on this location.
Waymark Code: WMMP5H
Location: Faro, Portugal
Date Posted: 10/18/2014
Views: 5
Nowadays these salting tanks - for fish and gerum production - are the only traces of a former Roman farm. There are a few remnants of storage spaces around. It is known that the owner of the farm was named Herannius.
The facilities are from the 1st Century AD and they were found in the 19th Century.
They are in a park with several attractions - birds observatories, walking trails, a water mill transformed in museum.
Admission Fee: 3 Eur
Opening days/times:
Unknown
Condition: Some remaining traces (ruins) or pieces
Most Relevant Historical Period: Not listed
Web Site: Not listed
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