Libraries and archives Romagna'S Coast

Back in 1691, Count Michelangelo Maffei had an imposing building built, with a square shape, 22 meters high, called “Torre San Michele”. The building takes its name from the marble effigy dedicated to the Saint. Inside, the Tower was able to accommodate up to 300 soldiers. At the top of the structure, the banner of St. Michael the Archangel was waving. In 1862, after being also used as a Barracks, the Tower was abandoned; later, it was restored and transformed into the Municipal Library of Cervia.

Opened in 1619, at the bequest of Alexander Gambalunga it is the first public library of the peninsula. Suggestive are the two magnificent globes wanted by the first librarian Michele Moretti with the heavenly terraqueous dated 1622.