Cesenatico also had its salt pans. Restored unpublished map

The Mount Abbey Restoration Laboratory is completing the restoration of the unpublished Map of Cesenatico, a large map measuring more than four meters by two meters made by Antonio Farini and dated between 1778 and 1780. The map illustrates the territory of Cesenatico, testifying to the presence of the salt pans of the Camera Apolistolica Vaticana behind the coastline and of which no trace had remained.

The delicate intervention was entrusted by the Malatestian Library to Dr. Silvia Cecchini, who accomplished the dusting of the map, subjected it to an alcoholic deacidification treatment, renewed the brachette (the strips of paper that join the individual sheets of the map) and constructed false margins that frame the map ensuring its flattening.

“Originally the document belonged to the Historical Archives of the Municipality of Cesena and was found in 2019 within the premises of the State Archives of Forlì-Cesena by Renato Cortesi and Dino Manzelli in a very deteriorated state,” said Culture Councillor Carlo Verona. “The two researchers spearheaded the restoration together with the Biblioteca Malatestiana, which is currently in charge of the paper, involving as sponsors the Orogel Foundation (Fondazione F.OR.), the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena and Siropack of Cesenatico. The discovery of the find, which occurred almost by chance and at the hands of two lovers of local history, gives us back some almost completely unknown features of our landscape. Most people are familiar with the salt pans of Cervia, to which another map is dedicated, also kept at the State Archives of Cesena, but few know about the salt pans of nearby Cesenatico that were eliminated in the late 1700s by the Apostolic Chamber for practical reasons, resulting in an expansion of the salt pans of Cervia. ”Following the restoration,“ the councilor concludes, ”we would like to present this work to the territory, and that is why the municipalities of Cesena and Cesenatico are in contact to organize a public event of restitution.

Cesenatico also had its salt pans. Restored unpublished map

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