| Imola | |
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| State | Italy |
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| Region | Emilia Romagna |
| Capital | Imola |
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Imola is a region ofItaly.
To know
It is the first territory of the Romagna coming from the east; always a place of border and interchange with theEmilia, however, he is proud of his Romagna roots.
Geographical notes
The Meat sauce extends to its western border, the Faentino to the east; Ravenna is Romagna Apennines they surround it to the north and south. The Santerno river characterizes the area.
Background
Caterina Sforza stands out in the history of the Imola area. She was a proud and combative castle woman who strenuously opposed Cesare Borgia when the son of Pope Alexander VI attacked and seized one of the cities of Romagna to create her own state. Imola, Dozza and the neighbor Forlì they had been given as a dowry to Caterina by her father Galeazzo Maria Sforza, lord of the places when her daughter married Girolamo Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.
Territories and tourist destinations
Urban centers
- Imola - It is the capital city of the area, an industrial and agricultural center of great importance, where it is held between August and September Santerno Fair, an important review of the local production of industry, crafts and agriculture. It is also very famous for the motorcycle races held on its circuit.
- Dozza - On the first reliefs, it is a medieval village that has been preserved intact with its Rocca di Caterina Sforza. On the walls of the houses there are frescoes that several contemporary painters competed in. .
How to get
By plane
- 1 Bologna airport (G.Marconi), Via Triumvirato 84, ☎ 39 051 6479615.
- 2 Rimini Airport (F. Fellini).
- 3 Parma airport (G. Verdi), Via Emilia - Golese locality, ☎ 39 0521 951511.
By car
the A14 Adriatica crosses the territory; nearby the branch for Ravenna.
- The via Emilia, parallel to the motorway
the A14 Adriatica crosses the territory; nearby the branch for Ravenna.
- The via Emilia, parallel to the motorwayOn the train
The station of Imola it is on the railway line of the major communications between the north and south of Adriatic Italy.
How to get around
What see
- Rocca (to Imola). Built in 1259 it was then remodeled in the fifteenth century in the imposing forms that we still see today. In the center stands a square keep; at the corners four cylindrical towers. It houses a collection of ancient weapons and one of medieval ceramics and majolica.
- Cathedral (to Imola). It stands out in its square in the medieval quarter of the city. Its construction lasted for many years between the end of the thirteenth century and the end of the twelve hundred, only to be expanded again in the fifteenth century. The facade is from the nineteenth century. It preserves a valuable wooden crucifix from the fifteenth century in the second chapel of the right aisle; the first chapel on the left houses a baptismal font of the Tuscan school of the early sixteenth century.
- Rocca (to Dozza). It has crenellated walls and a Renaissance loggia that derive from the reconstruction of the fifteenth-sixteenth century. Its rooms preserve furniture, tapestries and paintings of the eighteenth century Torelli. It is the seat of the regional Enoteca and the Museum of rural civilization. There is also the Picture Gallery of the Painted Wall, a collection of sketches by the artists participating in the competition Painted wall which has endowed the town with numerous frescoes on the facades of the houses.
