Las Salinas, or the salt fields, can be found in various places on the coast of Gran Canaria. The east coast in particular offers a particularly good environment for the extraction of salt, also in San Bartolome de Tirajana, Playa de la Taibaba. Here you can still find a part of a building where the salt used to be stored. The construction of the salt fields had started in the mid-17th century and was in operation until 1957.