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Rocca Malatestiana

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La rocca malatestiana di Cesena
La rocca malatestiana di Cesena

The Rocca Malatestiana (Malatestian Stronghold) is a fortress in Cesena, Italy. The current structure is the third fortress built in the place, near the ruins of the two previous ones, of late-Roman and medieval age. The fortress, one of the most imposing in Romagna, has a court and two central towers, called the "Male" and the "Female". The Museum of Agriculture, located inside the latter, offers visitors a complete picture of rural life in Romagna over different ages, while the "Male Tower" hosts a permanent exhibition of Malatestian Ceramics.

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Rocca Malatestiana
Via Cia degli Ordelaffi, Unione dei comuni Valle del Savio

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Rocca Malatestiana

Via Cia degli Ordelaffi
47023 Unione dei comuni Valle del Savio, Quartiere Centro Urbano
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Cesena Cathedral
Cesena Cathedral

Cesena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Cesena, Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint John the Baptist in the city of Cesena, Italy. It has been the episcopal seat of the present Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina since 1986, and was previously that of the Diocese of Cesena. The building of the cathedral, to replace an older one, was authorised by a papal bull of Pope Urban VI in 1378. The works started in 1385 and were paid for by the generosity of Andrea Malatesta, the lord of the city. The building was completed around the year 1405. The construction, in Romanesque-Gothic style, is attributed to the architect Undervaldo (probably Swiss). The campanile (bell tower) was built between 1443 and 1457 to designs by the Maso di Pietro and funded by Bishop Antonio Malatesta da Fossombrone (bishop of Cesena from 1435 to 1475). The same Bishop Malatesta was responsible for the building of the Bishop's Palace adjoining the cathedral, which was completed by his successor Giovanni Venturelli (1475–1486). After the radical rebuilding of the 1960s the only surviving original part of the structure is what remains of the door on the eastern side. Also dating from the Renaissance period is the Chapel of Saint Tobias next to the cathedral, now in use as the cathedral museum. However, the old hospital of the same name which gave assistance to pilgrims no longer exists. The façade of the cathedral was completed only at the end of the 15th century with works attributed to the Venetian architect Mauro Coducci (1440–1504). The mortal remains of Saint Maurus of Cesena (d. 946) are preserved here, in the Altar of Saint John, one of the greatest sculptures of Cesena produced between 1494 and 1505 by the Lombard sculptor Giovanni Battista Bregno da Osteno. Inside the cathedral a small painting on a copper plate by the Mannerist Livio Agresti depicting Saint John has been returned. In the Cappella della Madonna del Popolo ("Chapel of the Madonna of the People") are frescoes by Corrado Giaquinto dating from 1750, and the painting was personally crowned by the Pope Pius VI on 3 June 1782, the first occasion in papal history.

Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena
Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena

The collections of the Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena, in Cesena, Italy, contain works by: Antonio Aleotti (Argenta, doc. from 1494 – Cesena, 1527) Francesco Andreini (painter) (Cesena, 1697–1751) Allegory of Charity Portrait of Cardinal Francesco Locatelli Vincenzo Baldacci (Cesena, known from 1802 to 1813) Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Guercino) (Cento, 1591 – Bologna, 1666) St Francis receives stigmata Giovanni Battista Bertucci the younger (Faenza, 1539–1614) Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch, 1664 – Milan, 1736) Vittorio Matteo Corcos, (1859, Livourne -1933, Florence) Antonio Cardile, (Taranto, 1914 – Roma, 1986) Bartolomeo Coda (son of Benedetto Coda (Rimini, doc. from 1516 to 1563) Girolamo Forabosco (Venice, 1605 – Padua, 1679) Either Suicide by Sophonisba or Artemisia drinks the ashes of her husband Mausolo Bartolomeo Gennari (Cento, 1594 – Bologna, 1661) Costantino Guidi (Cesena, 1832–1899) Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Roma, 1987) Eberhart Keilhau, known as Monsù Bernardo (Helsingør, 1624 – Rome, 1687) Francesco Longhi (Ravenna, 1554–1618) Girolamo Marchesi da Cotignola (Cotignola, c. 1490 – Bologna, c. 1559) Giuseppe Milani (Fontanellato, c. 1716 – Cesena, 1798) Bartolomeo Passerotti (Bologna, 1529–1592) Portrait of young musician Enea Peroni (Cesena, 1810 c. – doc. to 1844) Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Venice, 1683–1754) Sacrifice of Iphigenia Antonio Pio (Cesena, 1809 – London, 1871) Agostino Plachesi (Cesena, c. 1725–1805) Francesco Raibolini, known as Francia (Bologna, 1450 c. – 1517) Madonna and child - Presentation at temple Giovanni Battista Razzani (Cesena, 1603–1666) Gasparo Sacchi (Imola, active c. 1517–1536) Scipione Sacco (Sogliano sul Rubicone, 1495 – Cesena, 1558) Giovanni Battista Salvi, (Sassoferrato, 1609 – Rome, 1685) Archangel Gabriel & Virgin receiving annunciation Madonna and child Sorrowful Virgin Praying Virgin Cristoforo Serra (Cesena, 1600–1689)