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Rimini (/ ˈ r ɪ m ɪ n i / RIM-in-ee, Italian: ⓘ; Romagnol: Rémin or Rémne; Latin: Ariminum [3]) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rimini in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Ariminum (modern Rimini) was founded as an ancient Roman colonia in 268 BC, when the Roman Senate sent 6,000 settlers to the bank of the river Ariminus (). [27] Construction of the Ponte di Tiberio started during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus in 14 AD and finished under his successor, Augustus' adoptive son Tiberius, in 21 AD.
The arch was built in 27 BC, commissioned by the Roman Senate in honour of Augustus, who had become the first Roman emperor in the same year. It was built at the northern end of the Via Flaminia, [2] [3] a Roman road between Ariminum (modern Rimini) and Rome constructed in 220 BC by Gaius Flaminius, [3] [4] and at the start of Ariminum 's decumanus maximus (Corso d'Augusto). [11]
Rimini, a city on Italy's Adriatic coast, anchored the Rimini Line, a German defensive line which was the third such line of the Gothic Line defences. Rimini, which had been hit previously by 373 air raids, had 1,470,000 rounds fired against it by Allied land forces; by the end of the battle, only 2% of all buildings in the city escaped damage. [1]
A map showing the province of Rimini's major settlements before the transfers of Montecopiolo and Sassofeltrio. The province of Rimini (Italian: provincia di Rimini) is the southernmost province of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rimini, one of the "seven sisters" of the historical region of Romagna.
The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods) other lands and towns in Romagna and holding high positions in the government of cities in present-day Tuscany, Lombardy and Marche.
The Tempio Malatestiano (Italian: Malatesta Temple) is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450. [1]