“Sweet” salt from Cervia

Il sale di Cervia | © Gruppo fotografico cervese

Our salt pans are a stunningly beautiful natural environment. Located at the southern end of the Po Delta Regional Park, it covers an area of 827 hectares, barely a mile from the sea. This is where we produce our salt, which has a distinctive sweet taste thanks to the absence of bitter chlorides. You will taste the difference immediately!

The characteristic sweetness is due to a number of natural factors, such as the local micro-climate, the combined effect of the sun and wind, and the properties of the Adriatic Sea. But most of all, it is thanks to the traditional production methods with multiple harvests by the salt workers, which today has been changed to the multiple basin method.

With these precise techniques, the salts in the seawater are separated, forming the purest possible sodium chloride.

Before becoming Cervia “Sweet” Salt, the crystals are washed and left to dry outside in big piles of white salt that you see everywhere on your way into as Cervia.

It is a premium coarse salt thanks to the way it is produced, which preserves the natural marine properties.

Would you like to try some for yourself? You can find it on sale in shops in the town, along with a great number of products that contain it.

If you like cheese, we recommend squacquerone, made in the Romagna region using the sweet salt. You will be amazed by its fresh, delicate flavour and its sweet aftertaste.

And if you have a sweet tooth, make sure you try Cervia chocolate made with the sweet salt.