Josep Miquel CONCA

The Valencian saltworks in the bases of the Early Modern

Les salines valencianes als albors de l’època moderna

Published in Life and Thought, Religiosity and Conflict, Pleasure and Crime on Both Sides of the Mediterranean (the Crown of Aragon and Acre)

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The Crown established a firm monopoly on salt in kingdom of València, a system that had at its base a series of saltworks that were to supply the entire kingdom. In this article, focused in reign of Ferdinand II the Catholic, I’ll analyse the disappearance of private saltworks, the structure and the improvement of the royal saltworks and the work they provided to the inhabitants of the kingdom.