Explore Rimini

The Tempio Malatestiano is Rimini's cathedral, a Gothic Franciscan church remodelled from 1447 for Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini. Leon Battista Alberti designed its marble exterior, left unfinished around 1460; inside are chapels carved by Agostino di Duccio, a crucifix by Giotto and a fresco by Piero della Francesca.

The Fellini Museum is dedicated to the film director Federico Fellini, who was born in Rimini in 1920. Opened in August 2021, it spreads across the rooms of the 15th-century Castel Sismondo, the Palazzo del Fulgor with its cinema, and Piazza Malatesta between them, with film projections, drawings, costumes and installations.

The Arch of Augustus is a Roman gate built in 27 BC in honour of the emperor Augustus, marking the end of the Via Flaminia from Rome where it entered Rimini. It is the oldest surviving Roman arch in Italy; the brick battlements on top are medieval, and the adjoining city walls were demolished in the Fascist era, leaving the arch free-standing.

Castel Sismondo is the fortress-palace that Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, began building in 1437, with advice from Filippo Brunelleschi in 1438. Only the central core survives, without its outer ring of walls and moat; its brick towers face Piazza Malatesta, and since 2021 its rooms have housed part of the Fellini Museum.

The Ponte di Tiberio is a Roman bridge of five stone arches over the Marecchia channel in Rimini, begun under Augustus and completed under Tiberius between 14 and 21 AD. It carried the Via Aemilia and the Via Popilia into the town, survived a German attempt to blow it up in 1944, and has been closed to motor traffic since 2020.