Piazza Cavour Photo: Piazza Cavour

On Piazza Cavour, which is the cultural centre of Rimini, is the Teatro-Comunale. The theatre was opened in 1857 and the staging of Giuseppe Verdi's "Harold". During the Second world war the building was badly damaged. Leaving only its facade.

In front of the theatre on the square is the monument to Pope Paul V established here in the early seventeenth century. And there – even older Fontana (1543) "Bump" in the form of three concentric ledges, marble topped shot.

The Palace of Arengo was built at the beginning of the XIII century during the reign of Western sweets seem de Carbonize. Since time immemorial, the Palace was a symbol of a free city-commune and today it houses the city administration. In his long life, the Palace was rebuilt several times, but in 1926 the architect Gaspare Rastelli returned the building to its original appearance.

The brick facade is decorated with machicolations in the form of a dovetail. The main room of the Palace is the Sala del-Arango decorated with a fresco "the last judgment" of the fourteenth century of the artist's work from the school of Giotto. Carlo Goldoni was proposed to use the Palace as a theatre has been on the scaffolding and two century, there was the play of the famous playwright.

Next to the Palazzo del Arango is the Palazzo del podestà, built in 1330-ies. Arches and five small Windows adorn the facade of the Palace. And forked battlements, machicolations not only beautify the building, but are necessary in the defense, turning a graceful Palazzo into an impregnable fortress.

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