EX CRAL Saline - Officine del Sale

EX CRAL Saline - Officine del Sale

The building better known as Ex Cral salt pans was designed and built together with Cervia Nuova, when it was decided to move the site of the city from the salt pans to the coast, between the end of the 1600s and the first decades of the 1700s. It was conceived and used as a factory, where women produced jute bags to contain salt. For some time it was just a warehouse, and from the 1960s it became an after-work recreational club. For many years the CRAL was a meeting point not only for salt workers but for many people from Cervia who went there for a game of cards or billiards, to catch up on the latest events in the city or simply to see familiar faces and have some fun. After years of abandonment, today the building has become a restaurant and café.