Rimini is the Italian capital of summer fun, but Rimini is not just sea and parties: from the shoreline to the hills there are the places praised in the songs of Dalla and De André and celebrated by Fellini's films, without forgetting the works of art and monuments. historians of ancient Rome among the best preserved in the world. Rimini is also the city of wellness, with the famous RiminiWellness fair and open-air gyms on the seafront.
Rimini offers a wide variety of itineraries and ease of movement to those who travel by bike through its network of cycling paths (over 135km of Bicipolitana, the metro line of bicycles), that along the coastline (Parco del Mare) to the city centre (Anello Verde) leads to the slopes of the hills, starting from the Cycling path Marecchia.
The ancient town of sailors and fishermen is very close to the historical city centre of Rimini. A historical location, full of charm and tradition and loved by Federico Fellini, where decorations and murals portray some of the most beautiful scenes of Fellinis movies and his life. You will get to the city by crossing the Bridge of Tiberius. The night life takes place in the centre, a real maze of roads and squares, with restaurants, small local wineries, and bars.
The Fellini Museum was inaugurated in 2021, a museum complex and the biggest museum dedicated to Federico Fellini and its poetic legacy. The Museum is divided into three sections: the Palazzo del Fulgor, where you will be able to go on a spectacular journey through Fellinis imagination, through a sequence of spaces divided into three floors and thanks to a series of visual and interactive tools; the second section is the Sigismondo Castle, a fortress of the Renaissance age where you will be able to explore an immersive path of multimedia installations that evoke fragments of Fellinis movie sets and shooting techniques, but also his collaborations and his relationship to the twentieth century of Italian history; last but not least the Malatesta Square: an urban area which acts as a connective tissue and creative fil rouge between the Castle and the Palazzo del Fulgor, here you will find some open-air installations.
This is the archeological area that narrates 2000 years of the history of the city. The most important discovery is the Domus of the Surgeon, an imperial residence that housed a medical taberna, here archeologists have found one of the richest surgical equipment with more than 150 instruments. Near the Domus, you can find the City Museum, where you will be able to admire precious works of art such as the paintings of the Riminis 14th century school, the Pietà by Giovanni Bellini, the pieces by Agostino di Duccio and by Ghirlandaio, the paintings by Cagnacci, Centino and Guercino.
The Malatesta Temple was commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta in 1450 and was designed by Leon Battista Alberti, one of the geniuses of Italian Renaissance. The temple, even if unfinished, is one of the most important architectural and artistic monuments in the entire world, and is essential to the history of European art and Renaissance. Inside you can admire Giottos Crucifix. The marble reliefs of the six side chapels are the work of Matteo de Pasti and Agostino di Duccio. The fresco by Piero della Francesca that represents the prince kneeling in front of San Sigismondo is situated in the last chapel on the right.