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in Roman epoch called Ficocle and rose to three or four west
kilometers of the actual city, to the limits of a great swamp,
southern layer of the Venetian lagoons.
On the dry land and on the emergent backs from the waters
it extended him a vast pinewood that connected him, beyond
the Wise river, with the pinewood of Ravenna, and some finds
confirm the presence of human installations beginning from
the III sec. A.C. |
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In the 709 Ficocle
he was entirely destroyed by the “esarca” Theodore
and the inhabitants, to be saved they were sheltered him in
the middle of the swamps, where then they built the new city
to which gave the name of Cervia, perhaps for him "acervi",
salt's heaps, or better for the bucks that then populated the
pinewood. The Legend wants the name to be due to a buck that,
to protect himself from the hunters would have knelt in front
of St. Bassano, bishop of Praises, and really Inspiring himself
to this legend the coat of arms of the commune represents a
knelt buck.
The fates of the city were tightly always tied up to those of
its salt pans, that it seems they go up again to the epoch etrusca,
when salt was still used as commodity of exchange to the place
of the coin.In the Middle Ages after a long period of wars,
the city was under the dominion of the Malatestas, gentlemen
Rimini, and in 1463 you/he/she was sold to the Republic in Venice,
desirous to have in Italy the monopoly of the commerce of the
salt, precious "white gold" because essential for
the maintenance of the foods; really to that period it is tied
up the party of the "Wedding of the Sea", that every
year is celebrated with great celebrations in the day of the
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Excluded the Napoleonic
parenthesis, the city was ownership of the Saint Center up to
1859. Not enjoying of a climate healthy pope Innocenzo XII to
the definite 1700 thresholds to demolish it and to reconstruct
it in the current position. The jobs were direct from Milanese
Ledger Heads and it were the architect Bellardino Perti to give
her characteristic eighteenth-century line.
Of this millennial history they remain testimony the Stores
of the Salt, the Tower of S. Michele and the quadrilateral of
the Historic Center, that were built between the end of Six
hundred and the beginning of the Seven hundred one today: in
this case history and tradition melt him with the modernity.
Today Cervia, with her tourist places, it is the ideal city
for an active vacation, introducing herself to the tourists
with a rich calendar of cultural initiatives, sporting, ecological
and of show, tied up to the history and the tradition and that
they animate above all the summer season. |
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