Rimini
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Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Clockwise from top left: view of Adriatic Sea and backyard in Rimini; view of Rimini Beach in the Lungomare area; Rimini theatre and Pope Paul V in Cavour Square; Tiberius Bridge, main monuments: Tiberius Bridge and Arch of Augustus; Arch of Augustus; and Malatesta Temple
Rimini's ancient harbour, portrayed in the mosaic of the boats from the domus of Palazzo Diotallevi
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta called the Wolf of Rimini, by Piero della Francesca, c. 1450, Louvre
View of Rimini, engraving by Georg Braun (1572)
Tempio Malatestiano
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The Tempio Malatestiano is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.
Doorway of the Malatesta Temple by Leon Battista Alberti.
The cathedral's nave, with crucifix in the apse veiled for Passiontide.
Sigmondo Malatesta, the Prince of Rimini, before St. Sigismund by Piero della Francesca.