Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
(27 Aug 2026)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nin, Croatia - 21 August 2026
1. Piles of salt, the old city of Nin in background
2. Various of a truck pushing the salt into the pile
3. Various of a salt worker collecting salt and pushing it into a pile
4. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mario Salic, salt worker:
“The sun and heat suit us best. The hotter it is, the faster the sea evaporates and the faster the salt is produced.”
5. Various of a worker pushing salt into a pile
6. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mario Salic, salt worker:
“Yes, it’s hot, but there’s salt. I think this year will be the best.”
7. Various aerials of the salt fields ++MUTE++
8. Set up shot of Sanja Stamenic Ostric, marketing director, Nin Saltworks
9. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Sanja Stamenic Ostric, Marketing Director, Nin Saltworks:
“This year is excellent in terms of the harvest. We will have our maximum production of up to 5,000 tons because it was a sunny year and a sunny summer. To produce salt crystals by evaporating seawater, it takes at least 21 sunny days. If there is rain in the meantime, the process takes longer.”
10. Excavator tipping salt onto production line
11. Salt falling from the production belt into a vat
12. Pull focus from conveyor belt to workers in the background
13. Salt being bagged
14. Close of bag of salt moving on conveyor belt
15. Wide of salt worker lifting bag from conveyor belt
16. Wide of salt worker packing bags of salt
17. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Sanja Stamenic Ostric, Marketing Director, Nin Saltworks:
“These are old tools that are slowly being forgotten. Usually everything stays in factories, and this is an open-air factory. It’s nice when you can connect with what is produced, when you can feel it, touch it and smell it in the open air.”
18. Sign reading “Nin Saltworks Park”
19. Wide of visitors resting in a gazebo in Nin Saltworks Park
20. Visitors walking past piles of salt
21. Visitor touching salt
22. Visitors walking between salt pools
23. Wide of entrance to the Salt Museum
24. Set up shot of Angela Tartaro, retail manager
25. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Angela Tartaro, retail manager:
“People are not really aware of the importance of salt and its importance for our health. They are often surprised to learn that our bodies cannot function without salt. I mean, they know it, but when we bring it closer to them, it’s like a light bulb goes off in their heads: ‘Oh yes, that’s right, there’s salt in everything.’ Salt has been around throughout history and will be around long after we are gone.”
26. Wide of visitors walking in Nin Saltworks Park
27. Truck pushing salt onto a pile
28. Wide of salt storage
29. Visitors walking by the salt storage shed
30. Close of salt
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
Searing temperatures have boosted salt production in Croatia this year, with temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius.
One company on the Adriatic coast says it has hit maximum production.
STORYLINE
It looks like snow. White fluffy mounds are moved around by a bulldozer.
While in much of Croatia, this summer's heatwave has been a problem, there has also been an upside.
In Nin, on the Adriatic coast, it has delivered a strong salt harvest.
Salt production relies on seawater, sun and wind. The seawater is channelled into shallow pools, where it slowly evaporates, leaving behind salt crystals.
“The sun and heat suit us best. The hotter it is, the faster the sea evaporates and the faster the salt is produced,” says Mario Salic, a salt worker.
For Salic and his colleagues, this year's weather has been ideal for salt production.
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(27 Aug 2026)
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Nin, Croatia - 21 August 2026
1. Piles of salt, the old city of Nin in background
2. Various of a truck pushing the salt into the pile
3. Various of a salt worker collecting salt and pushing it into a pile
4. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mario Salic, salt worker:
“The sun and heat suit us best. The hotter it is, the faster the sea evaporates and the faster the salt is produced.”
5. Various of a worker pushing salt into a pile
6. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Mario Salic, salt worker:
“Yes, it’s hot, but there’s salt. I think this year will be the best.”
7. Various aerials of the salt fields ++MUTE++
8. Set up shot of Sanja Stamenic Ostric, marketing director, Nin Saltworks
9. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Sanja Stamenic Ostric, Marketing Director, Nin Saltworks:
“This year is excellent in terms of the harvest. We will have our maximum production of up to 5,000 tons because it was a sunny year and a sunny summer. To produce salt crystals by evaporating seawater, it takes at least 21 sunny days. If there is rain in the meantime, the process takes longer.”
10. Excavator tipping salt onto production line
11. Salt falling from the production belt into a vat
12. Pull focus from conveyor belt to workers in the background
13. Salt being bagged
14. Close of bag of salt moving on conveyor belt
15. Wide of salt worker lifting bag from conveyor belt
16. Wide of salt worker packing bags of salt
17. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Sanja Stamenic Ostric, Marketing Director, Nin Saltworks:
“These are old tools that are slowly being forgotten. Usually everything stays in factories, and this is an open-air factory. It’s nice when you can connect with what is produced, when you can feel it, touch it and smell it in the open air.”
18. Sign reading “Nin Saltworks Park”
19. Wide of visitors resting in a gazebo in Nin Saltworks Park
20. Visitors walking past piles of salt
21. Visitor touching salt
22. Visitors walking between salt pools
23. Wide of entrance to the Salt Museum
24. Set up shot of Angela Tartaro, retail manager
25. SOUNDBITE (Croatian) Angela Tartaro, retail manager:
“People are not really aware of the importance of salt and its importance for our health. They are often surprised to learn that our bodies cannot function without salt. I mean, they know it, but when we bring it closer to them, it’s like a light bulb goes off in their heads: ‘Oh yes, that’s right, there’s salt in everything.’ Salt has been around throughout history and will be around long after we are gone.”
26. Wide of visitors walking in Nin Saltworks Park
27. Truck pushing salt onto a pile
28. Wide of salt storage
29. Visitors walking by the salt storage shed
30. Close of salt
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
Searing temperatures have boosted salt production in Croatia this year, with temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius.
One company on the Adriatic coast says it has hit maximum production.
STORYLINE
It looks like snow. White fluffy mounds are moved around by a bulldozer.
While in much of Croatia, this summer's heatwave has been a problem, there has also been an upside.
In Nin, on the Adriatic coast, it has delivered a strong salt harvest.
Salt production relies on seawater, sun and wind. The seawater is channelled into shallow pools, where it slowly evaporates, leaving behind salt crystals.
“The sun and heat suit us best. The hotter it is, the faster the sea evaporates and the faster the salt is produced,” says Mario Salic, a salt worker.
For Salic and his colleagues, this year's weather has been ideal for salt production.
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