Rimini's seafront, with its long sandy coastline and extremely calm waters, is my first time on the shores of the Adriatic Sea
To Rimini, it is purely a transit point, as the next day we are going to San Marino, which is only more than 30 kilometers away. Rimini is a famous coastal tourist city in Italy, but it was not the high season when I went, and it was a little cold. The impression of Rimini comes from a piece of music, Tchaikovsky's symphonic Fantasia Francesca da Rimini. The symphonic poem actually depicts a scene from Dante's Divine Comedy, a medieval tragic love story in which Rimini's ruler was the Maratesta family, whose Giovanni was lame and ugly, who took a fancy to Francesca and entrusted his handsome brother to keep courtship for him. Francesca fell in love with Paul at first sight, and only after marrying Rimini did she discover that her husband was Giovanni. Francesca had an affair with The Reserved, and was discovered by Giovanni, who killed the two men.
Rimini belongs to emilia-Romagna, so I have arrived in the fourth region from Rome. Last time it was said, driving from Perugia, arrived in Rimini until very late because of a wrong navigation setting. Get up the next morning and stop by the beach and town before setting off for San Marino. This time staying at the four-star Mercure Hotel was the best standard of the trip, but because it was low season, it was the cheapest. Anyway, it's also a sea view room. Located on the Adriatic Riviera, Rimini is characterized by a long sandy beach of 15 km long, which itself is also unknown. But in the last century, there was a five-time Oscar-winning director, Federico Fellini, whose films made the place famous all over the world.
This hotel is also a serious sea view room, open the window is the sea, because the weather is relatively cool, so the house is not expensive, like 100 euros up and down
Mercure Hotel, a four-star accor group, and a Mercure nearby, for similar prices
Rimini beach by the sea, the building in front of it is basically a hotel
Rimini's historic centre was heavily bombed during World War II, but now it's old, and it's too early to come here, with few tourists but bustling, and the market is bustling. The most famous building is the Tempio Malatestiano. The building was first the Church of San Francisco, and later the reconstruction was undertaken by Sigismondo Malatesta. As mentioned earlier, the rulers of Rimini in the Middle Ages were the Maratesta family. This Sigismondo is notorious for his debauchery throughout history. At that time, he asked the famous Florentine architect Alberti to convert it into the ancestral hall and cemetery of him and his mistress Atti. However, Alberti's architectural form was not completed, and Pope Pius II also expelled Sigismon from the church for murder, rape, incest, etc., and called the building a "temple of the devil worshippers". Today it is the largest church in Rimini, where the remains of some of the rulers of the Maratesta family are also stored, as well as the works of Piero de la Francesca (author of the Duke and Lady of Urbino, whom I mentioned in the previous article, painter of the early Renaissance).
The stay in Rimini is short, and since there is no time to experience the seaside leisure, it is necessary to rush to San Marino. In another day, it will cross to the Ligurian Sea on the other side of Italy.
This is the Maratesta Temple
This is actually an unfinished building, and the front gable is not built
The interior is relatively simple
On the simple roof, the altar hangs a statue of Jesus
In the chapel on the side, there are chubby little angels
I don't know what era of architecture, anyway, there are not many ancient buildings in the old city
The wet market was lively in the morning
In order to find a toilet, I went inside and remembered the former Xidan Vegetable Market
The seafood here should be good
It was found that Rimini's hair salons were almost all Chinese open
Quiet streets in the old town, a simple tour ready for the next stop