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Piazza Cavour, elegant heart of Rimini
Always been the political, economic and cultural center of the city
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What Piazza Cavour in Rimini looks like and where it is.
Always the political, economic and cultural center of the city, it housed the palaces of power, the marketplace and now also one of Rimini's museums. Piazza Cavour is a large rectangular space, enlivened by outdoor tables and crisscrossed by the ever-popular bicycles, Rimini's favorite means of transportation.
Why it is special: the architecture around the square
The square is closed at the end by the Galli Theater, inaugurated in 1857, to the right by the Palazzo del Podestà with its tall Gothic arches, built in 1334 but much remodeled in the early 20th century, when the custom was to remake the Middle Ages truer than the real thing, and by the adjoining Palazzo dell'Arengo, dating from the 13th century, with its luminous polyphors on the upper floor and the civic tower. Today the two buildings have become a museum under the name Palazzi dell'Arte Rimini and house the 14th-century fresco of the Last Judgment by Pietro da Rimini and the San Patrignano Contemporary Art Collection.
Don't miss: the old fish market and the pine cone fountain.
Opposite is an 18th-century building, the Old Fish Market, which with its beautiful geometries offers interesting photographic perspectives. In the center, the statue of Paul V reminds us that Rimini was long under papal rule. But the most beautiful thing in the square, in front of which it is worth stopping, is the Fontana della Pigna. It dates back to Roman times, as evidenced by the central drum holding the large pine cone, but was rebuilt in the 16th century respecting its original layout. Until 1912 it was the only one providing drinking water to the city.
Fun fact: Leonardo, the fountain and the hydraulic organ.
He saw it during one of his visits to Rimini, Leonardo da Vinci, who was struck by its beauty and by the different sounds that the water caused as it descended from the 15 pipes, so much so that he wrote in his notes "Fassi un'armonia colle diverse cadute d'acqua, come vedesti alla fonte di Rimini, come vedesti addì 8 d'agosto 1502." From this fountain perhaps came to him the inspiration for the construction of a hydraulic organ in which the water descending in differently shaped vessels would emit different sounds.
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