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In La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos we can admire the charm of the rice fields flooded with water in the Ebro Delta, where they are now an inseparable part of the landscape.
In fact, the Ebro Delta is the third area in Spain with the most rice fields, some 22,000 hectares of cultivation, only surpassed by the banks of the Guadalquivir and the rice fields of Extremadura.
Furthermore, since 1992, this area has held the Ebro Delta Rice Protected Designation of Origin, recognized for its quality and uniqueness.
Rice from the Ebro Delta, with semi-long and round grain, is characterized by its quality and is only sold in the extra category.
It groups together six varieties, which are bay, bomba, fonda, montsianell, senia and tebre. All these varieties are produced exclusively in the municipalities of Aldea, Ampolla, Amposta, Camarles, Deltebre, Sant Carles de la Ràpita and Sant Jaume d’Enveja.
