DIE SALINEN
Since ancient times, during the first millennium and part of the second, the only way to conserve food was the use of salt. Salt meant richness and the owners of salt were never touched by famines and they never had to accept unfavourable exchanges (when the barter system was used in the place of money). All this explains the great interest around the production of salt and the richness of the producers and the salt merchants (but difficulties for the salt workers). Up to some decades ago, Cervia’s salt-works were a sort of open air factory. An important factory where the owners and the workers transmitted their know-how and skills from generation to generation. Still today the salt-works offer a curious and spectacular view even if the importance of salt is not the same as it was. It’s anyhow nice to look at the white cristals floating in the old sediment basins, looking at the aquatic birds flying around. It is surely a nice place to spend some hours in.