The Margherita di Savoia Saltworks are to be found in the large Tavoliere delle Puglie plain on the Adriatic Sea. They are the largest Italian saltworks and one of the largest in the Mediterranean area. There was originally a large coastal lagoon known as lake Salpi on the site of these salt ponds and it was in the Neolithic age that man first started to exploit the phenomenon of evaporation in the large salt ponds found here. Ferdinand I of Bourbon built some structures around here in the early 19th Century and a few ruins still remain.
