On the Via Emilia halfway between Bologna and the sea, Forlì has made exhibitions its trade: the San Domenico Museums, carved from a thirteenth-century convent, stage shows every year that draw all of Italy. The local genius is Melozzo da Forlì, the fifteenth-century master of perspective foreshortening.
Piazza Saffi, among Italy's largest squares, lines up eight centuries of architecture — from the Romanesque abbey of San Mercuriale to rationalist palaces of the 1930s, a twentieth-century heritage studied here without denial. All around, the Romagna of piadina and a riviera twenty minutes away.
Near Forlì
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
