Salina Camillone
Strada statale Salara (Salara state road) - La Salina Camillone is the only survivor of the 149 multiple collection salt pans (existing before the transformation of 1959, or the transition to industrial processing), still in operation thanks to the activity carried out by the Cultural Group Civiltà Salinara, whose volunteers collect the salt according to the ancient artisan method and with the tools of the past.
In the past, the Camillone was indicated with the number 89 and considered a medium-small salt pan, built on unstable ground due to the large amount of sand mixed with clay and because it is subject to veins of fresh spring water.
The salt pans of Cervia, unlike the other Italian salt pans, were worked with an ancient system datable to Roman’s period.
During the salifera season, each fund was assigned to a salt worker, who worked it with the help of all the members of his family, especially during the salt harvest period.
Just like a small farm, the salt pan needed the work of the salt workers and the unskilled work of the wives and children as quarrymen. That of the salt miners of Cervia was a real art, which was learned day by day to learn all the secrets of the correct movements of the water, the influence of the winds and to avoid damage to the production of the salt pan.
With the Armesa de sel ("Salt shed"), at the beginning of September, the salt workers recall when the salt, on burchielle pulled along the canal, was brought to the city to be stowed in the Salt Warehouses. In the Camillone, open-air section of Musa - the Salt Museum, the ritual of collecting salt is repeated from June to September, guided tours are organized and tourists are involved in becoming salt workers for a day.
The sweet salt of the Camillone obtained in 2004 the recognition of Slow Food presidium.