CESENATICO

The “Leonardesque” Canal is one of the most attractive and photographed marine scenes of the Mediterranean, and i salso the lead of Cesenatico’s history. On the right-hand bank, going towards the sea, in the first stretch behind the St. Giuseppe bridge, there is the Floating Marine Museum, unique in Italy.
Walking along the quay you immediately come to Pisacane Square. The old centre of Cesenatico has an extremely anarchic toponimy: the Parish Church of St. Giacomo is situated along via Giordano Bruno; in the church there are two interesting paintings by Cagnacci.

In Pisacane Square there is one of the first statues ever erected in Italy (in 1885) to Giuseppe Garibaldi. Opposite , on the side of the Ponte della Piazza (Square Bridge), there are the remains of two ancient columns, probably of Greek-Byzantine origin, which were erected during the dominion of the Venetians in 1500.
On the corner of the left –hand bank of the port there is the natal house of Marino Moretti, a gifted poet who was highly ranked on the national panorama and died in 1979, at the age of 94.
Today the House of Moretti is an important cultural workshop dedicated to the literature of the twentieth-century.

Returning to Corso Garibaldi which goes along the right-hand side of the canal, there is the Municipal Library which, apart form other things, preserves a good copy of the drawings for the port of Cesenatico, with the Leonadrdesque Codex.

GATTEO (GATTEO A MARE)

There are many occasions for those who love to discover goog works of art.
In the square of Gatteo (the main town) on the right, there is a beautiful St. Rocco Church with its interesting, antique frescoes. Again in the square there are the ruins of the ancient Castle which has been restored recently.
In the quiet of the old churches- among which there is the St. Lorenzo Parish Church, again in the small centre of Gatteo- noteworthy eighteenth century canvases can be admired, for example the “Alms of St. Lorenzo” and the “Saints” from the Bolognese school.

Proceding from Gatteo towards smiling Gatteo a Mare, you can find a small but welcoming “beehive” of meeting places and proposals for turists: cars have been banned from Gatteo a mare, as the important urban decoration confirm (Viale delle Nazioni, Libertà Square), which during the summer months make the seaside resort a real pedestrian “island” ideal for a walk, a chat, an ice-cream or a coffee.

SAN MAURO PASCOLI (SAN MAURO MARE)

San Mauro a Mare, which has often been the “Blue Flag” of Europe for the cleanliness of its waters and enviroment, is 7 kilometres far from the main town of San Mauro Pascoli, in the immediate inland.
The name of the municipality is a peculiarity: Giovanni Pascoli, one of the most important poets of the cultural panorama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was born here.

It is the sweet thread of Pascoli’s poetry, which many people have memorised sat at their school desks, to beat out during the walks which lead from the main town to the sea.
At a short distance from the village there is La Torre, an agricultural house of the Torlonia family: here while the popolars of Rio Salto (do you remember “The dapple grey horse” ?) whispered, Giovanni Pascoli’s father, administrator of the Torlonia was killed, while he was coming home from Cesena market on that mysterious evening of the 10th August 1867.
In the main town, Casa Pascoli which has been a national monument since 1924 is really worth a visit. It is a small but interesting domestic museum, where the environments in which the poet spent his childhood have been preserved as they were when he lived there.

LA VALLE DEL RUBICONE

Just hearing the name makes you think of important historical moments like the passage of Caesar through Rubicone with the celebrated phrase “ALEA JACTA EST”. This valley, situated between the water courses of Rimini and Cesenatico, is the reason of a centuries-old dispute which still thrills the local historians: the descriptive vagueness of the ancient geographers and the continuous mutation of the plain, do not help them make clear definitions even today. In any case, this valley shows a beautiful landscape on the plain, and gentle, attractive slopes watched over by the ancient medieval castles..