The Saline della Laguna salt pans of Lo Stagnone offer a truly unique landscape. Windmills, first introduced during medieval times, dot the horizon, a testament to how things were once done. One or two continue to function, pumping water through the sluice gates into or out of the various basins. Piles of harvested salt, neatly covered with terracotta tiles, lie between the road and the basins, drying in the sun and waiting to be dispatched. The salt mills consist of a truncated cone base, a red cupola and a wooden framework of six trapezoidal wings to which sails that rotate in the wind are fastened. Sicily, Italy.