The stone walls are damns of the floodable alluvial terrace where the salt works facilities lie, a characteristic feature of Gerri's heavily humanised landscape.
These walls for channelling the river and protection of the banks where there are salt beds form part of the characteristic countryside of Gerri.
The stone walls are damns of the floodable alluvial terrace where the salt works facilities lie, a characteristic feature of Gerri's heavily humanised landscape.
Panoramic view of the retaining walls, whose structural base was of wooden trunks, with a salt-works hut in the background.
Detail of a retaining wall that rests on a set of strategically placed beams. These beams had an important anchoring function, especially at the beginning of construction of the breakwater, as they prevented the water moving or taking away the stones before they were well set in place by those added afterwards.
Today, the stone wall in the photograph protects the crops grown on the left bank of the Noguera Pallaresa river in areas that were previously salt beds.