What to See in Cesena: Attractions & Sights

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Chiesa di San Domenico Churches
Cesena church built from 1706 over an older one, whose two cloisters survive.
Chiesa di Sant'Agostino Churches
Cesena church with an unfinished façade by Vanvitelli; Genga's altarpiece is now in the Brera.
Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena Museums
Cesena's picture gallery in the former San Biagio convent since 1984: from Guercino to Guttuso and Schifano.
Porta Montanara Castles
Fourteenth-century gate of Cesena near the Rocca Malatestiana, with an inscription by Renato Serra.
Parco della Rimembranza Nature · More places of interest
Public garden in Cesena on the Rocca Malatestiana hill: a tree for each of the six hundred fallen.
Chiesa di San Martino in Fiume Churches · More places of interest
Small single-nave church by the river Savio, rebuilt in 1505, with votive frescoes.

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Parco della Rimembranza

The Parco della Rimembranza is a public garden in Cesena, laid out in 1922 on the slopes of the Garampo hill, on which the Rocca Malatestiana stands.
What to see
The park has rare plants and picnic tables. At the entrance on viale Mazzoni stands the monument to the fallen of the Great War. An air-raid shelter was later built under the park.
The hill on which the fortress stands remained bare and without vegetation for several centuries, until at the end of the nineteenth century, after the demolition of the Borgo Chiesanuova, plans began for its layout. The park was inaugurated in 1924 and dedicated to the six hundred soldiers of Cesena who died in the First World War: a tree was planted for each of them.
Visiting
The park has an entrance on viale Mazzoni, in Cesena. The sources consulted give no opening hours and do not say whether the air-raid shelter under the park can be visited.
Our editors' tip
The park occupies the slopes of the hill of the Rocca Malatestiana: nearby is also the Porta Montanara, close to the fortress.
Chiesa di San Martino in Fiume

The church of San Martino in Fiume is a small religious building in the hamlet of the same name, part of Cesena, in the diocese of Cesena-Sarsina; church and village owe their name to the nearby river Savio.
What to see
The simple building has a gabled façade and a single nave. Artistically notable is the portal on the façade, which remained intact during the war: it is of Istrian stone and has an arched tympanum bearing the dedication to Saint Martin of Tours and the year of rebuilding. The interior is enriched by votive frescoes of the early sixteenth century, some painted by the Ferrarese painter F. Rossi; they show a Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot, Christopher, Martin, Roch and Sebastian, painted as ex votos for healing or protection from the plague that had spread through the Cesena area at that time.
The church stands on an earlier building, of which there is trace in a document of 1291, and was rebuilt in 1505 on the initiative of the canon Paolo Poliziano, taking on the appearance it has today, despite the restoration made necessary by the serious damage suffered in the Second World War.
Visiting
The church is in the hamlet of San Martino in Fiume, in Cesena. The sources consulted give no opening hours; for information one can refer to the page of the diocese of Cesena-Sarsina.
Our editors' tip
Look on the tympanum of the Istrian stone portal for the year of rebuilding, 1505: it is written there, next to the dedication to Saint Martin.