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MUSA - Cervia Salt Museum
by Museo del sale di Cervia
The MUSA - Salt Museum of Cervia is born from the passion and the desire not to disperse an important cultural heritage for and of the town. In the mid-1980s, Agostino Finchi, a former salt worker, together with a group of enthusiasts, recover the material connected with the history of the salt pan of Cervia. These include the tools, documents, and everything that could witness the historical route of the Cervia salt civilisation. With the material gathered, towards the late 1980s a permanent exhibition was set up inside the salt warehouses that bears witness to the activities of the salt workers and life in the salt pans. The people who run the facility are salt workers, therefore they can transmit directly their experience and cultural heritage. The Camillone salt pan is the open-air section of MUSA and remains the last of the artisan salt pans that amounted to 150 before the transformation. In the artisan salt pan, you can still breathe the climate of the manua
Episodes
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The Tower of San Michele
The tower dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel arose in 1691 together with the warehouse that is found on the same side of the port canal. It was designed as a tower to protect from incursions and assaults from the sea and to control the salt trade. First lighthouse of new Cervia, at the…
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The Circuit Canal
The canal, which meanders for more than 14 km on the perimeter of the salt pan, had and still has the function of drainage and water circulation. It is connected to the port canal where it unloads the excess sweet water. Difficult to cross, it was also a protection measure for salt smuggling.
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The Salt Warehouses
The ancient salt warehouses stored up to 23,000 tons of salt. Structures in bricks with powerful walls had to protect the precious good awaiting commercial distribution. They are interesting examples of industrial archaeology with an evocative structure similar to that of a cathedral with wide...
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The Places of Salt
The salt pan of Cervia has a thousand-year history that goes back to the time when salt production was the main activity of the town’s inhabitants and the salt had great economic value so much so that it was called “white gold”. Here is a tour of the “places of salt” and in the development of our...
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11 The family
Women played a very important role in the salt pans. The salt bed was managed by saltpan workers assisted by every member of their family. Women learned the art of making salt and, if their husbands died, they took over the management of the salt pan until their eldest sons reached working age.…
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10 Incursions of Corsairs
We often say that the San Michele tower of Cervia was built to protect the salt and the inhabitants from pirate raids. Actually, we should be talking about invasions of Corsairs. This plague was spread in the early 1500s and lasted until about the middle of the 1800s. Unlike pirates, Corsairs…
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9 Metals of the protohistoric and roman period
A number of metal items are an important testimony of the art of metal processing and the tastes of their owners. A bronze fibula in the shape of a leech is such an example. It can be dated to the protohistoric period, specifically to the Iron Age (8th-4th century B.C.), and was found in the area...
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8 Medusa and her story
The sculptural fragment with Gorgon was recovered in 1960 at a country home being demolished, by the master Rondano Dondini. It was preserved until 2013 at the primary school of Montaletto. Following conservative restoration managed by the restorers of the Superintendence, it was placed inside…
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7 Precious manoscripts on the history of the town
La “Istoria della città di Cervia”, an autograph manuscript by Giuseppe Maria Pignocchi, belonged to the personal library of Carlo Saporetti, a native of Cervia, scholar of local history and untiring researcher of the territory’s origins. A unique text of great historical value, a work of study...
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6 The mosaic carpets of the church of San Martino
The Church of San Martino prope litus maris was built around the mid-6th century a short distance from the ancient coastline, as its name suggests; nevertheless, there is no certainty that it was dedicated to Saint Martin from the beginning. The building of worship, facing East-West, was a Latin...
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5 The coat of arms of Pope Innocent XI
The marble coat of arms of Pope Innocent XI found a home in the open-air section of the museum in 2013. In 1691, he had promoted the construction of the first buildings of the industrial area of Cervia, dedicated to the storage and sale of salt, along the banks of the sea. This occurred before…
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4 The burchiella
A flat-bottomed boat suitable for navigating in shallow waters, used in the salt pans of Cervia until the 1960s to transport salt. The name comes from Venetian “burchio” with which it shares the flat bottom, the commercial use and, in some situations, towing from the canal bank. Venice has had a...
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3 Story of a found shipwrek
In 1956, during excavation work in a sand quarry at the height of the Adriatic highway, at the crossroads with via Nulla Baldini, a shipwreck was discovered. The local Superintendence and the Town of Cervia, with the support of Umberto Foschi, honorary inspector of the Superintendence and of…
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2 A new section comes to life
Opened on the 10th of May 2013, this section of the museum intends to complete the first museum itinerary realised in 2004. This adds another step to the cultural goals of the museum. The origins of the territory, the foundation of the new town, the development of farming, the sea with the salt...
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1 History of the salt museum of Cervia
The MUSA - Salt Museum of Cervia is born from the passion and the desire not to disperse an important cultural heritage for and of the town. In the mid-1980s, Agostino Finchi, a former salt worker, together with a group of enthusiasts, recover the material connected with the history of the salt…
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The MUSA - Salt Museum of Cervia is born from the passion and the desire not to disperse an important cultural heritage for and of the town. In the mid-1980s, Agostino Finchi, a former salt worker, together with a group of enthusiasts, recover the material connected with the history of the salt pan of Cervia. These include the tools, documents, and everything that could witness the historical route of the Cervia salt civilisation. With the material gathered, towards the late 1980s a permanent exhibition was set up inside the salt warehouses that bears witness to the activities of the salt workers and life in the salt pans. The people who run the facility are salt workers, therefore they can transmit directly their experience and cultural heritage.
The Camillone salt pan is the open-air section of MUSA and remains the last of the artisan salt pans that amounted to 150 before the transformation. In the artisan salt pan, you can still breathe the climate of the manua
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Museo del sale di Cervia
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