Even today, old wooden salt drilling towers can be found in Schweizerhalle, in Riburg and in the spa gardens of Rheinfelden. They bear witness to the industrial past.
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Silk, salt and a short walk

Basel’s rise to a cosmopolitan city and a world-leading industrial center cannot be explained as a simple coincidence or sheer luck. The city’s ascent to economic pre-eminence, which would later culminate in the development of a world-class pharma hub, was also precipitated by the discovery of salt deposits in the early 19th century.

Text by Goran Mijuk, photos by Adriano A. Biondo and from the Novartis Company Archive

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