Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 63 articles · 1,291 heritage places · 13 events · 29 itineraries · 5 road-books · 334 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
San Mauro Pascoli: the Torlonia estate where Giovanni Pascoli spent his childhood, and from which his father set out on 10 August 1867 and never came home.
Caryatids on the loggia, a woman head in a wreath over every window, a door chained shut and a garden gone to wood. We have not been able to name it: help us.
Filogenio Fabbri carved it and Rimini unveiled it in 1928. Broken up in 1954 and its horses scattered, it went back to Parco Fellini only in 1983.
Commissioned by a committee of war widows and orphans, won by Bernardino Boifava in 1923 and unveiled by the King in 1926 — after four years of argument over the naked hero.
The forum of Ariminum, the square that carried Caesar name for centuries, renamed for the three young partisans hanged here on 16 August 1944.
Six centuries of Rimini government round one square: the people palace of 1204, the podesta of 1334, the town hall of 1562, a 1543 fountain Leonardo admired and an opera house of 1857.
Luigi Poletti built it between 1843 and 1857; Verdi opened it with Aroldo. Bombed in 1943, the Teatro Amintore Galli reopened in 2018 after seventy-five years.
Barcelona: a pharmacy open on the Rambla since 1850, behind a green ceramic front of 1918 that still calls itself by the name of its founder.
Barcelona (1914): a closed pharmacy in the Raval whose mosaic shopfront, laid by Lluís Brú, still spells the name of the man who opened it in 1883.
NAVICARE NECESSE, cut across a brick corner in San Giuliano: the 1938 home of Rimini maritime school, whose teaching went back to 1827.
