FORLÌ-CESENA | EMILIA ROMAGNA

Discover Forlì-Cesena

The province of Forlì-Cesena in Emilia Romagna has about 400,000 inhabitants.
The province of Forlì-Cesena is divided into two districts, Forlì and Cesena, each with 15 municipalities.

Forlì is a richly cultural city located on the ancient Via Aemilia. Its major monuments are in Piazza Saffi where the beautiful Abbey of S. Mercuriale is located with its bell tower and cloister, also the Post Office Building, the Town Hall, the Civic Tower plus Palazzo del Podestà and Palazzo Albertini, both from the fifteenth century. 
Visit the Civic Art Gallery containing Antonio Canova’s Hebe, which became a symbol of the Romagna School. The 166 cm high marble statue depicts Hebe, cupbearer of the gods and daughter of Zeus and Hera.

Cesena lies in the Savio river valley. The beauty of the old town was mostly created in the period of the Malatesta family dominion. Cesena’s famous library is also from the Malatesta period.
The library was founded by Novello Malatesta, who wished to extend the twelfth and fourteenth-century collection located in the monastery of S. Francesco.
Novello Malatesta’s extended library also included a new building: the Libraria Domini, completed in 1452.
Also worth a visit are the Benedictine Abbazia del Monte, and the Malatesta fortress.

A jewel in the Cesena province is the small town of Longiano. Small, yet a town with as many as five museums! The Museum of Vintage Records contains the first recording from 1877.
Also visit the permanent collection of sculpture by Domenico Neri.
Roncofreddo in the Cesena hills can also be reached by bike from Longiano.
In the past Roncofreddo was surrounded by walls in the shape of a flattened ellipse, but there are few visible remains today. Visit the Town Hall with its Civic Tower, the Parish Church of S. Biago and the Malatesta Fountains just outside the town.
Another wonderful town is Terra del Sole. Worth seeing are the Governor’s Palace, the churches of S. Reparata and S. Barbara, the sixteenth-century fortress and the 2087 meter long town walls.