Via Romea Nord - The Sanctuary is located about 2km from the city of Cervia, on the Adriatica state road.
Not far from the ancient path of Romea and close to the vast pine forest, the Sanctuary dates back to the period of Venetian domination over Cervia, in the 15th century, when the Carmelite pilgrim Girolamo Lambertini, enticed by the solitary and wooded place, built a masonry aedicule to welcome a small image of the Virgin who mysteriously appeared, according to legend, on the trunk of a pine. A few years later, the modest chapel was to become a real church, consecrated in 1498.
The Madonna del Pino has a late Romanesque front, enriched by a portal in Istrian stone donated in 1557 by the Community of Cervia.
Inside there is a painting of the Madonna del Pino, from the Venetian school of the sixteenth century. The remains of the last bishop of Cervia, Federico Foschi, are also preserved.