Romagna Riviera

The smell of sea salt clings to the pines along Cervia’s canal, where salt has been harvested since the 1200s. Just a 30–35 minute drive from Ravenna, the Romagna Riviera stretches out with laid‑back beaches, vintage bathing clubs, and fishermen’s cottages. Milano Marittima—planned in the early 1900s by the Palanti studio—pairs umbrella pines with modernist villas. Between two rows of sunbeds, the Adriatic murmurs. Summer bites early here, from late May, with spritzes on wooden piers and tiny wedge clams tossed into hot pans.

Collected from your Ravenna hotel, you travel in a Mercedes with the car on standby, hopping between lidos without hunting for parking. While your driver links Cervia, Milano Marittima, and Pinarella, you sit down to a fritto misto on the pier, step into the small Salt Museum, or book a front‑row lounger. In Romagna, with a private driver in Ravenna, the plan stays flexible: a swim, an espresso at Pasticceria Babini, then—if the light turns honey‑gold—a detour to the salt pans at sunset.