Everybody knows the most famous vacation destination in Europe.
But Rimini, or better ancient Ariminum, is also a city of art
with over 22 centuries of history. Rimini is a Roman city and
certainly not just any old city, but one of the most important
of ancient Rome. The official date of its founding is 268 BC
when the Senate of Rome sent 6000 colonists to establish a new
settlement there which took the name of the river Marecchia
(Ariminus). In the beginning it was a strategic settlement. Then
(90 BC) it became a “municipium”, and finally a blossoming city
of the Roman empire, with a grand forum (piazza Tre Martiri),
two central streets - the cardo maximus (via Garibaldi and IV
Novembre) and the decumanus maximus (corso d’Augusto) – and
triumphal monuments: the Tiberus Bridge and Augustus’s Arch. And
let’s not forget a rarity: the Surgeon’s Domus, a unique medical
clinic from the ancient Roman world, miraculously still intact
in 2011 AD. Among the great works decided upon by the Senate of
Rome, there are the