Welcome
to the official
tourist information site
of Cervia Municipality
Saint Michael's Tower stands in Cervia's historical centre and dates back to 1691, before the founding of New Cervia, when it was built to defend the town from Turks and Saracens.
It was made of bricks and clay, it is square and massive with scarp walls which make it look even more solid and safer.
It was considered impregnable because of its few, small windows, and it was linked to the dry land through a drawbridge, that led straight to the entry, which was originally higher than the present one.
A tile with the image of Saint Michael defeating a human-featured devil, is evidence that the building was devoted to the Archangel.
Its 22.5-height housed four inner spaces, the underground, the kitchen-larder, the soldiers's dormitory and the imposing arsenal, which does not exist any more.
The tower was later used as the Finance Police Headquarters, with the task of protecting the Salt Storehouses with their precious content, the so-called "white gold". In these last years it housed the Town Library, now it hosts the Tourist Information Office of Cervia and, at the first floor, of CerviaAmbiente Foundation
Town centre. Bus stop "Viale Oriani" at m 150
Car and coach parking in Piazza Andrea Costa, at 50 m.
