Christmas Nativity Scenes

Nativity scene on the water

Viale Nazario Sauro, Cervia
6 December 2025 – 6 January 2026

Life-size, set up on an old Burchiella, on the canal port in front of the Magazzini del Sale.
Brilliant figures covered in salt, creating suggestive plays of light.

Cervia Cathedral

Piazza Garibaldi 20, Cervia
6 December 2025 – 6 January 2026

Visiting hours 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

The nativity scene is composed of mechanical parts that allow the statues to move thanks to a hundred small mechanisms. The statues are made of wood and plaster and then decorated by hand.

Nativity Scene Church Madonna della Neve

Via delle Rose 38, Cervia
Visiting hours: 8 a.m. - 12 noon and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Some parts are mechanical and each year varies with a different spiritual theme.

MUSA - Salt Museum

Viale Nazario Sauro 24, Cervia
December 2025 – 6 January 2026

Visiting hours:

6-14 December: Sundays and holidays 2.30 - 7 p.m.
20 December 2025 - 6 January 2026: every day from 2.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Ticket entrance € 2,00 , reduced € 1,00

Three different nativity scenes are set up inside the museum:

• Salt Crib
  The scene consists of about fifteen figurines made with guided salt crystallisation in 1992 by Agostino Finchi.
  
  
• Salt workers' nativity scene
  The life-size statues of the Nativity in patinated terracotta were made in the 1980s by Paolo Onestini, a ceramist from Cervia. There are also figures of salt workers at work and figures of life in the salt works.
  
  
• Mechanical nativity scene
  An original nativity scene created by Mario Boselli depicting the places and characters of the town of Cervia.

Stella Maris Parish

Via III traversa, Milano Marittima

6 December 2025 - 6 January 2026

On the façade of the church, an artistic multimedia nativity scene with evocative multi-sensory animation reproducing images of scenes from the Nativity, the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi from Giotto to the present day. The scenographic installation was created based on a special artistic project, curated by the students of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Franciscan Friars of the Stella Maris Parish and the Pro Loco Milano Marittima.

Inside the church, a nativity scene depicts the Holy Family in an evocative atmosphere that invites reflection, realised in a simple but meticulous manner and with attention to detail, using mainly natural and local materials.

Pisignano 

Car park Secondo Fusignani, via Crociarone, Pisignano

December 2025 - January 2026

The scene is set on an old raft, inside a wooden hut wrapped in fishermen's nets and shells. The wood used was collected on the beach. In addition to the Nativity, there are many characters.

Sant'Antonio Church

Via G. Di Vittorio, Cervia

Nativity scene composed of several statues from the mechanical nativity scene originally displayed in the Suffragio church, which are made of wood and terracotta and dressed in cloth.