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The Way of The Way of Salt Salt

The salt route was a path that once fed the salt trade. There is no single salt route and the various peoples of Emilia, Lombardy and Piedmont each had its own network of paths and connections to take the goods, mainly wool and weapons to the sea and recover the salt, then valued for food preservation.

link the Po Valley to Liguria or the French territories of Provence, allowed the sale of this precious material, which is essential for food and food preservation, difficulty in finding regions of the north far from the sea.

• The salt roads ran through the Emilian Trebbia Val di Taro.
• The Salt Road Lombard Staffora followed throughout the valley (province of Pavia), along the ridge that divides the valley Borbera (province of Alessandria) from Val BorECO (province of Piacenza) across the mountain to get Antola val Trebrbia to Torriglia, a meeting with the Path of Piedmont and Emilia and Genova easily reached from there.
• One of the ways of the salt Piedmont put in communication with the territory Saluzzo Dauphiné and Provence, France, through the tunnel of Buco di Viso.
• north-south axis using the Alpine passes and allowed Salt transiting through the Italian Alps to overcome: it is an example Stockalperweg that, Domodrossola, the Val di Bognanco, passed over the Simplon Pass and down to Brig in Valais (Switzerland).

History

After the fall of the Lombards by Charlemagne to the Holy Roman Empire formed the Imperial estates in order to maintain a safe passage to the sea; assigned these territories for the faithful families that dominated for centuries these feuds, controlling the valleys and ensuring, in exchange for taxes, the safety of convoys.

Where possible, the plain, they preferred to carry out transport by river to save costs, in large barges that arrived to carry up to 60 tons of salt load.

transport over rough terrain was carried on mules as the narrow and uncomfortable mule tracks that climb the slopes and valleys did not allow the passage of wagons.

Today the streets of the salt have lost their commercial value, have become a destination for hiking and trekking, winding in integrated and special natural interest.

In the Valais, to facilitate the transportation of salt was even built a canal, the canal Stockalper, in the Rhone valley.

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