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I took this photograph for La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos in the final stretch of the salt flats on Trabucador beach, in the Ebro Delta.
A beautiful sunset that almost seems from another planet, which I was able to enjoy with a group of lifelong friends. They say that throwing a coin into a pond brings good luck. We did it by throwing some stones into the Delta salt flats and contemplating a wonderful landscape.
The old salt mines of San Antonio are sites currently in disuse and have been included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. They are located right next to La Tancada and are the gateway to Trabucador beach.
Around 1970, the salt flats were abandoned and converted into a fish farm. Likewise, its successors are the Trinidad salt flats – located at the beginning of Punta de la Banya – and known as the most important in Catalonia.
At this point there is a magnificent viewpoint, the La Tancada observatory, where you can currently see various colonies of flamingos.
