Salt Collecters’ houses. There is also the possibility to have guided tours of the salt basins and the museum dedicated to the civilization of salt. Nowadays, Cervia, with its touristic resorts Milano Marittima, Tagliata and Pinarella, boasts a huge accommodation industry, hosting 4 million visitors a year. A wide range of touristic and commercial services marks Cervia’s reality: over 400 hotels, 181 restaurants and pizzerias, 199 bars, discos and dancing halls, plenty of shops and boutiques, which, in the different shopping areas are the traditonal destination for walking and shopping.

The Cervia Salt Basins Visitor’s Centre is part of the southern portion of the Po Delta Regional Park. The Salt Civilization Museum (in the 17th century the Salt Storage Room) and the ancient Camillone Salt Basin (a kind of open-air Salt Museum) attract tourists and school groups on guided tours every year. In Cervia resides the seat of the Cervia Environment Foundation (an internationally famous Centre for environmental documentation), which annually awards prizes to those people who have distinguished themselves in the environmental sector. Among those who have been awarded are Konrad Lorenz, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Piero Angela, Folco Quilici and Sting.