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Short story
 

Cesenatico was built in 1302 by "cesenati" and it became the port of Cesena.
But some years later it was destroyed by Uguccione della Faggiuola, Federico da Montefeltro and Bernardino da Polenta.
In 1328 it was reconstructed by Cecco Ordaffi and Ostasio da Polenta. In 1977 the Pope sold it to Giudo da Polenta, who gave it back in 1382.
Leonardo da Vinci disposed a river basin in the north and a closed canal in the south (The Mazzinari Vein) in order to regulate the tide.
Then Cesenatico became part of the government of Cesena
In 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Cesenatico with his wife Anita and with   his companions, who remained with him after the retreat of Rome, in order to reach Venise.

The place: what you can see

The harbour

Built in 1314 because of the urgent need of the town of Cesena to create an outlet for its own trade.
In 1502 Cesare Borgia conquered the town and called Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of finding a solution to the problem of sand bars silting up the harbour entrance.
An exact copy of Leonardo's design can be seen in the public library of Cesenatico (the original is preserved in the French National Library in Paris).
During the course of the centuries the village expanded around the harbour first as a fishing and a coastal trade center then as a well known seaside resort.

The maritime museum

This floating maritime collection is the only example of its kind in Italy. There are displayed eight exactly restored historic prototypes of the craft of the upper and middle Adriatic with their coloured sails.
The museum has been created as record of the old tradition of its fishing and short and medium distance maritime traffic. During Christmast's time there is a large characteristic crib on the boat.

The Moretti house

Birthplace of the poet Marino Moretti where his writings and books are preserved.
Now center of the study on Italian literature of the twentyth century.
Visit to be booked before.

The theatre

Built by the architect Candido Panzani and financed by the local voluntary founds, it has been opened in 1865 and damaged during the Second World War; completely restored in function since 1992.

The "conserve"
 

The cone shaped ice-boxes have been used between the 16th and the end of 20th century mainly for fish preserving.
There were numerous "conserve" along the Romagna coast. Cesenatico had about 20 of them, three have been reconstructed similar to the original as evidence of the culture and the way of life of the people of this fishing resort.
Every morning on the "Piazza delle conserve" flowers and vegetable markets.

The pillars

Probably of Greek-Byzantine origin, were built during the era of Venetian rule in the 16th century.

Statue of garibaldi

Erected in 1884. Cesenatico was the first Italian town to dedicate a monument to the national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi.

curiosity

Nantes Selvaggio thinks that the Riviera romagnola is successful because: "German people love to stay in a line also on holiday so that you can put 400 beach-umbrella, 100 deck-chair and 1000 people in 50 meters of beach."

These are all personal interpretations and they are too recent. We have to remember that Rimini, on the 21 of September 1944, was destroyed after 388 bombardments.

Few years later started the reconstruction and people in Romagna plunged themselves into dept in order to invent their tourism...
They signed many bills of exchange and they started to built some Hotels.

They slowly built Hotels, night, camping, restaurant, fast-food, and in particular the longest beach of the world, longer than the one of Long beach.

We can call it the Italian miracle...

We can also remember Maria Pagliarani, the boss of the Hotel Antonella in Rimini, who during the end of the forties, tired of being a nurse, planted a pole on the beach, opened a tent and offered it to the first tourist.
That was the beginning of the first dynasty of bathing-attendant who then became the first dynasty of Hotel keepers. There started the myth and the legend of our beach.

...the rest...

...the rest...of the story is recent: a tradition that continues year after year and that wrote and continues to write the story of the hospitality in the Riviera Romagnola

...familiarity and tradition, but also the will to better themselves, from father to son...