Cesena - Italy

Cesena (FC)

Emilia Romagna (Italy)

Cesena is a city with a beautiful old town with its characteristic shape scorpion has always been a meeting place for both citizens and visitors, as well as the scene of numerous cultural events and entertainment.
The atmosphere of Cesena derives its strength from the territory in which its roots, the friendly people and lively, which has managed to combine the agricultural vocation with modernity, the beauty of this city can breathe outside the old town, the hills in spring are embroidered flowering peach and cherry trees.
Brief History: The town has ancient origins, almost certainly Umbrian-Etruscan.
He also became a Roman of this period remains a valuable record of some centuriation best preserved of all.
After the rule of the Church, Cesena experienced a period of great splendor under the rule of the Malatesta family, to whom we owe the most important monuments.
- The Bibblioteca Malatesta, declared in 2005 by UNESCO Memory of the World with 340 retains a wealth of manuscripts;
- The Malatesta Fortress is one of the most impressive of Romagna;
- The Abbey of Santa Maria Del Monte, where in addition to paintings of great value and maintaining a collection of votive offerings, ancient tablets for grace received;
- Piazza del Popolo with the Fountain of Norther dates back to 1590 and built in Istrian stone;
- Teatro Bonci built between 1843 and 1846 dedicated to the tenor Alessandro Bonci Cesenate who challenged no less than Caruso at the Metropolitan in New York.
Other places of culture, civic art gallery, archaeological museum, museum of history of agriculture, museum of natural sciences.
Has recently been opened to the museum of mechanical music in the historic Villa Silvia edifice noble place on the first hills that long housed the poet Giosuè Carducci.
Activity Highlights: At the end of June, the Feast of St. John, In July, the sounds of the time, in August shows the Rock in September, the International Festival of street food, Cesena late October at the table.