The Salina of Cervia is the southernmost station of the Po Delta Regional Park and is an environment of very high naturalistic and landscape interest, so much so that it is included as a Wetland of International Importance in the Ramsar Convention. Since 1979 it has become a Natural Reserve of the State of animal population. From a birding and botanical point of view, the environment is of extraordinary beauty and charm, populated by rare species such as Flamingos, Knights of Italy, Avocets and other protected species.

La Salina covers an area of 827 hectares, about 1600m away from the sea. The history of the city of Cervia is indissolubly intertwined with the history of its salt pan.
For the production of the precious "white gold" the city has often been the object of disputes, wars and aims of conquest in past centuries. Salt has also been the fundamental engine of economic, urban, social and cultural development, which has left a profound legacy in today's Cervia, which from an ancient city of salt has transformed into a modern tourist city. Born as Ficocle in the valleys close to the coastal strip, the city then became “Cervia Vecchia” until, in 1698, Cervia Nuova was built, a city of foundation, in a healthier area, near the sea. Like the city, the management of salt funds has also evolved. In 1959 the Salina was radically transformed: the multiple collection was abandoned, represented by small and numerous family-run salt mines, and moved on to the single collection of a modern type.
The 149 salt pans were radically transformed into a single large salt pan in which the salt was collected only once in a few dozen so-called "salt" tanks at the end of the summer, with the use of modern mechanical equipment. Today the salt collection is carried out by the Parco della Salina di Cervia Society, but the history is preserved in the existence of the Camillone, the only survivor of the old salt pans, managed by the volunteers of the Salina Civilization Group.