Via Nazario Sauro - This is the fishing village, a picturesque city area on the right bank of the canal port, with its characteristic terraced houses, fishermen's boats, the fresh fish market and seafood restaurants.
Initially it was a neighborhood of huts and its inhabitants, called magna pes ("eat fish"), were considered foreigners, therefore marginalized by the salt workers and by the population who lived inside the quadrilateral. It was between the XIX and XX centuries that the reality of a village that grew up with the evolution of the canal port was consolidated, with its original being a tributary and emissary channel of the salt pans, an important infrastructure for the transport of white gold.
The world of Cervia's navy has followed the development of tourism in the locality. Grown thanks to the migrations of fishermen from Veneto (in particular from Chioggia), from the Po Delta area (Comacchio, Goro, Magnavacca) and partly from the southernmost cities of the Romagna coast, the Cervese navy included families of fishermen who they lived in the terraced houses of Borgomarina. The development of tourism, first in pioneering and then increasingly mass forms, has integrated the scarce income deriving from fishing.
The main custodian of seafaring tradition and culture is today the "La Pantofl a" fishing club association. In the ancient fishermen's village, the strong and ancient bond of the city with the sea is captured.
To renew this bond, the Feast of the Marriage of the Sea is celebrated every year on Ascension Day, the origin of which dates back to 1445 when Pietro Barbo was bishop of Cervia, who later became Pope Paul II.