Rimini
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From Rimini's train station begins this guided tour of the city, where in Piazzale Cesare Battisti, you can make a quick stop at the Tourist Board Office and request a free map of the city.

From here, go through a small part of via Roma towards the Largo Martiri d'Ungheria, where you will find, one in front of the other on the left side, the Parco Alcide Cervi - an area which has street after street filled with restaurants and greenery, all the way up to the beach. On the right side, the Roman Ampitheatre, dating from the 2nd Century CE, remains as one of the most notable structures that shows the power of the city and how it once rivaled that of the Colosseum in Rome.

Passing through the inside of the Parco Cervi, amongst bronze statues by Arnaldo Pomodoro and play areas for children, you arrive in the midst of the former medieval gates that closed the city until the Renaissance, is the monumental Augustus Arch, the oldest monument in the city, that was constructed in 27 BCE with the purpose of presenting the city, solemly and formally to its important visitors, particuarly those who came to the city via the cia Flaminia, that actually terminated there and simply became one of the city's streets. The Augustus Arch and the Tiberius Bridge, both situated at the two extremes of the decumanus maximus, site of the current Corso d'Augusto, were the two entrances to the city, situated at opposite ends and crossing the most important streets of the Roman Empire: the via Flaminia and via Emilia. The arch is, without a doubt, a triumph of the Romans and an important monument of the central regions of Italy.

Walking forward from the Corso d'Augusto, a street filled with stores and shopping, you can easily find the forum of the Roman city, the present-day Piazza Tre Martiri, which is dedicated to three partisan, young men murdered by Nazi soliders at the end of the Second World War. The current piazza, recently restored, preserves the memory of the miracle of the mule and that of the fish of Sant'Antonio nel Tempietto, in a space dedicated to him, and also that Caesar actually maintained hold over this part of the city just after crossing the Rubicon in 49 BCE with his legionares before following then to Rome, a spot not located at the corner of via IV Novembre.

Just by following this last street and you find on the right-hand side the Duomo of Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano. The outer architecture, done in a brilliant white marble restored for the 2000 Jubilee, is a magnificent unfinished work designed by the famed Renaissance architect, Leon Battista Alberti, elements of rich decorative geometrically arranged, his classicism as broad remaking of the previous linear medieval church of

The exterior architecture, exalted by the brilliant white marble cladding recently restored in view of the Jubilee, is masterly work, although unfinished by the brilliant architect Leon Battista Alberti expressed that best, especially in portal and the tympanum with elements of rich, decorative, geometrically arranged design. His design is a remaking of the previous design of the medieval church of San Francesco. The interior of the Duomo, in its magnificent decorative Gothic décor, performs pomp, wealth and determination that the celebratory exaltation heraldic symbols contrasts greatly with the essentiality of the external facade. The interior (with a nave with six side chapels) features in Room of Relics a masterpiece by Piero della Francesca of Sigismondo kneeling at the foot of San Sigismondo. This fresco and the crucifix painted by Giotto in the early 14 Century are the most important relics of the artistic past of the city.

Returning to the Corso d'Augustus, you arrive at the central Piazza Cavour (in the heart of medieval and modern Rimini) and the Piazza della Fontana, which was known as the Piazza del Comune until 1862. Both constantly and repeatedly subject to restoration works and renovation.