A village of the Alto Vinalopó beside the lagoon that gives it its name; moved after the flood of 1751 and an independent municipality since 1837.
wine in Madoz 1850; wineries since 2009The wine of the town that fled the lagoon
Salinas was born beside a salt lagoon that gave the place its name and its salt, but in 1751 the lagoon overflowed and the village had to be moved a kilometre to the northwest. It became a municipality in 1837, when the seigneuries were abolished. Madoz's Dictionary, published in 1850, already lists wine among its products, alongside wheat, barley, oil, anise and almonds. Agriculture was the basis of the economy until the 1950s, and today vineyards still dominate the landscape together with almond and olive trees. In this dry-farmed country of old monastrell at some 500 metres' altitude, recent wineries are at work, such as Sierra de Cabreras, which has been making wine since 2009.
Alive today: Dry-farmed monastrell vineyards and wineries such as Sierra de Cabreras, Finca Collado and Rafa Cañizares