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of Cervia Municipality
The saltpan of Cervia has always been not only an important economic resource but also a precious naturalistic landscape.
Cervia's history has been bound to its "white gold", whose importance is testified by various documents. Cervia's saltpan has been a natural area for bird protection and reproduction since a cabinet order in 1979.
The Saltpan of Cervia is a naturalistic protected area of 827 hectares which has been preserved by maintaining the typical flora and fauna of humid zones not to be found in other types of natural environment. The water birds which habitually nest here are avocets, black-winged stilts, redshanks, black-tailed godwits, terns, kentish plovers, little terns, little ringed plovers, kingfishers, black-headed gulls, and herring gulls which nest here, as well as other birds such as great and little egrets, flamingoes, sandpipers, cormorans, spoonbills, ruffs and curlew sandpipers. There are over 35 species of waders and over 10 of ducks, such as mallards, Baikal teals, wigeons, pintails, shovellers, shelducks, garganeys, not to mention some wonderful specimens of wild gees that can be easily observed along the banks, as they fly in flocks in particular periods of the year above the saltpan pools. The typical saltpan flowers are well known for their beauty which attracts numerous species of butterflies, but also for their curative properties as well as their utilization in cooking recipes.
Accessible from the state highway Strada Statale n° 254 to Forlì, immediately after the crossing with state highway Strada Statale n° 16 Adriatica. Coach and car parking.
