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.
Leon Battista Alberti wrapped a Gothic friary church in the marble of a Roman triumphal arch and left it unfinished in 1460. It is still the cathedral of Rimini.
Three complexes stand empty in the band where the Adriatic colonie were built. Not one of them carries a sign, and we are asking readers which is which.
A villa that became a hotel instead of being knocked down for one, and a wrought-iron gate that outlived whatever it was made for. Neither has a name we could find.
Not grand, not famous, not listed: two small houses of the years between the wars, on a street named after a colonial war. Nobody has written about them.
In 1966 more passengers landed at Rimini than anywhere in Italy except Rome, Milan and Venice. For forty years it was also a front-line NATO base.
They called it the Stradone dei bagni. It is the street on which Rimini invented itself as a seaside town, and its villas are still the evidence — house by house.
A hundred years ago Viserbella was a stretch of dunes. A wrought-iron gate in full Art Nouveau whiplash survives from the villas that replaced them.
One storey and a gate onto the sand: the seaside house where Enzo Ferrari spent Sundays with Laura and Dino. The prancing horse on the wall today is not the original one.
A small white building shaped like a ship, moored at the end of Rimini port canal with its bow to the sea. Seat of the sailors association; its date is disputed.
Rimini spent twenty years digging its river a new mouth, from 1927 to 1942. In May 2023, when the floods took much of Romagna, the city was largely spared.
