Chiclana wine and salt interpretation center
The wine and salt interpretation center is the only interpretation center recognized in Spain with the “Q” certification of tourism quality (2022) In the museum category. Open to the public in 2016, It occupies an ancient wineries owned by the City of Chiclana and that belonged to the Primitive Bodegas Collantes. The building, built between 1962 1964 on Marisma land - like the entire neighborhood of Las Albinas in which it is located—, refers to a typical type of construction in the warehouses of the Jerez framework that facilitated a constant temperature and humidity. Inside, Three large areas have been installed, Completed with the Marín doll collection.
The first space, called "El Mar", It is a large central room for multiple uses. The second, SAL, It is divided into three rooms that show the history of chiclana saline farms from the Phoenician and Roman colonization until the end of the 19th and early twentieth century, time in which they reached their greatest apogee. They explain how artisanal salt flats, that today are part of the Natural Park of the Bay of Cádiz, They market an extraordinary virgin sea salt. further, works of art are exposed, panels, Photographs and tools, Together with various audiovisual resources.
The third area, destined for wine, recounts the viticultural culture of Chiclana, also of Phoenician origin, although it did not become a thriving economy until the 16th and seventeenth centuries, When he participated in trade with America. In this space it is narrated with panels, Photographs, Toe and audiovisuals the cultivation of the vineyard, as well as the history of Chiclana wineries, They are still artisanal and family. further, The raising and aging of the fine is explained - the wine that production still supports today -, The Moscatel and other generous wines, Like Cream, that make Chiclana's wineries, included in the Jerez-Xérès-Sherry Denomination of Origin.
The wine and salt interpretation center welcomes, Besides, a unique exhibition space in tribute to José Marín Verdugo (1903-1984), Creator in 1928 of the Marín doll factory. The company, that maintained its activity until 2014, He wore his dolls and the name of Chiclana for the five continents. "Spanish dolls for the world", As described by Fernando Quiñones.
