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23 unusual facts about Rimini


Alexandros Jakupovic

On the challenger level in doubles, he has 2 semifinals, in July 2008 in Rimini, Italy, with Spaniard, Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras and in April 2009 in Athens, Greece with fellow Greek Konstantinos Economidis.

Alfredo Escalera

Escalera and Argüello had a rematch, on February 4, 1979, in Rimini, and Escalera held a small lead on the judges' cards after 12 rounds.

Communion and Liberation

An annual week-long cultural festival known as the "Meeting for friendship among peoples", held in Rimini, Italy in August, organized by CL beginning in 1980 has grown to be a major Italian cultural event, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Evgenia Vlasova

In that same year, she entered the Queen of the Song international competition in Rimini, Italy singing Musyka dusha moya (Music of my soul).

Forum Popilii

In 1073 during the episcopate of Pietro, Peter Damian went to Forlimpopoli to reform ecclesiastical disciplines, and on this occasion is thought to have delivered a sermon on St. Rufillus, which Vecchiazzani, an historian of this city, claims to have discovered at Rimini in the Library of St. Jerome.

Giovanni Malatesta

He is chiefly famous for the domestic tragedy of 1285, recorded in Dante's Inferno, when, having detected his wife, Francesca da Polenta (Francesca da Rimini), in adultery with his brother Paolo, he killed them both with his own hands.

Giovanni Malatesta (died 1304), known, from his lameness, as Gianciotto, or Giovanni, lo Sciancato, was the eldest son of Malatesta da Verucchio of Rimini.

Giovanni Tani

The principal co-consecrators was Bishop Francesco Lambiasi bishop of Rimini and Archbishop Francesco Marinelli archbishop emritus of Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo in Vado.

Godbluff

The 2005 reissue added live performances by Van der Graaf Generator of two songs from Peter Hammill's album The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974), recorded at a concert at L'Altro Mondo, Rimini, Italy.

House of Malatesta

The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as (in different periods) other lands and towns in Romagna.

His hunchback son Giovanni Malatesta is chiefly famous because he murdered his wife Francesca da Polenta and younger brother Paolo in 1285, having discovered them in adultery, and the murder is recorded in Dante's Inferno.

Julian Goater

Goater achieved a gold medal at the World Duathon Championships (2001) in Rimini, picking up another gold in Australia in 2005.

Maksymenko Igor Volodymorovych

: June 2011 – acquired the title of winner of the World Cup in kickboxing (WAKO «Bestfighter» — 2011), which was held in Rimini (Italy).

Mark Kaylor

In 1980, Kaylor won the British Amateur Boxing Association Championships and went to the European Junior championships in Rimini, Italy.

Mazzanti

The name Mazzanti is found in all parts of Italy, with large concentrations in Emilia-Romagna (especially near Rimini) and Tuscany (near Florence and Lucca).

Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav's older brother enlisted in the Galicia division ended up in Rimini at the end of the War and emigrated to Australia.

Paolo Barnard

His discoveries, published on Barnard's website, led to the organization of the first Italian meeting on Modern Money Theory, held on February 25th-27th, 2012 in Rimini.

Remini

Golden Bull of Rimini - a non-Papal decree in 1225 by Frederic II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, assigning conquest & Christianization of the Preuss on the Baltic coast to the Order of Teutonic Knights

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini

Shoya Tomizawa

It was reported that Rimini's state prosecutor, Paolo Giovagnoli, would begin an inquest that might involve criminal proceedings against as yet unnamed individuals.

U-20-class submarine

-- laid down date --> She was commissioned on 1 September and initially patrolled off the Italian towns of Rimini and Ancona.

United States Army North

The Germans reestablished their line across Italy at the level of Pisa and Rimini.

Valentina Monetta

A graduate of the Giovanni da Rimini school in Rimini, Monetta became self-taught in piano and voice from an early age and developed an especial affinity for jazz and R&B music.


A.C. Rimini 1912

On 9 September 2006, Rimini gained the national news after having gained a shocking 1–1 home draw against Juventus F.C., with Argentine attacking midfielder Adrián Ricchiuti scoring the equaliser, despite a sending off for Rimini midfielder Domenico Cristiano soon after the 1–0 Juventus lead.

Alessandro Serpieri

Alessandro Serpieri (b. in San Giovanni in Marignano, near Rimini, 31 Oct., 1823; d. Fiesole, 22 Feb., 1885) was an Italian scientist known for work in astronomy and seismology.

Battle of Rimini

Operation Olive the offensive by 15th Army Group in Italy in August to September 1944, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Rimini.

Benedetto Coda

Apart from his activity in Rimini, he also worked for several centres in Romagna and the Marche (Faenza, Ravenna, Cesena, Pennabilli, Pesaro and Urbino), in many cases, together with his sons (Bartolomeo, Francesco and Raffaele).

Cattolica Airfield

Cattolica Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which was located in the vicinity of Cattolica (Provincia di Rimini,Emilia-Romagna); about 230 km north-northeast of Rome.

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil

Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil is the title of three paintings by Ary Scheffer, all oils on canvas showing a scene from Dante's Inferno of Dante and Virgil viewing Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta in Hell.

Francesco II Ordelaffi

In 1350 Francesco conquered Bertinoro, Meldola, Fontanafredda and Ghiaggiolo, but had to face the opposition of the strong Papal general Gil de Albornoz, supported by the Malatesta of Rimini, as well as another excommunication.

Giovanni Battista Spínola

early in his life he served as the governor in Benevento in 1711 and the governor in Rimini in 1717-1719.

Guido I da Polenta

However, Guido and Guido Riccio soon were at war, and Guido allied with the Malatesta of Rimini in order also to counter Guido I da Montefeltro who had conquered Forlì and Cervia.

La Spezia–Rimini Line

The La SpeziaRimini Line (sometimes also referred to as the MassaSenigallia Line), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it.

Malatesta

The House of Malatesta, an Italian family which ruled over Rimini from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century

Misano

Misano Adriatico, a town in the Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna

Orfeo Bartolini

Bartolini left his home in Rimini, Italy on March 17, 2003 and set out on by motorcycle for India, where he planned to visit the tomb of Mother Teresa.

Paolo Vietti-Violi

Among those national: Tor di Valle Racecourse, Capannelle Racecourse in Rome, Merano, Agnano, San Siro, Monza, Florence, Grosseto, Bologna and Rimini.

Pasquale Amati

Pasquale Amati (1716–1796) was an Italian antiquary, born at Savignano di Romagna (now Savignano sul Rubicone), and educated at Cesena, Rimini, and Rome.

Relief

The revival of low relief, which was seen as a classical style, begins early in the Renaissance; the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini, a pioneering classicist building, designed by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450, uses low reliefs by Agostino di Duccio inside and on the external walls.

Rimini railway station

It was opened, in the presence of the then Prince Umberto of Savoy (later Umberto I of Italy), on 4 October 1861, together with the rest of the Forlì–Rimini section of the Bologna–Ancona railway.

The station provides interchange with local bus routes serving the urban and surrounding areas, including the Rimini–Riccione trolleybus line.

Roger Joseph Boscovich

He agreed to take part in the Portuguese expedition for the survey Brazil and the measurement of a degree of arc of the meridian, but was persuaded by the Pope to stay in Italy and to undertake a similar task there with Christopher Maire, an English Jesuit who measured an arc of two degrees between Rome and Rimini.

Royal Malta Yacht Club

In 1968 the first Middle Sea Race was sailed, and in 1987 was the start of the Rimini-Malta-Rimini race.

Santarcangelo

Santarcangelo di Romagna, a town and comune in the province of Rimini (Emilia-Romagna), Italy

Spring break

Mykonos, Umag, and other European party destinations such as Ibiza, Mallorca, Rimini, Lloret de Mar, Siófok, Crimea, and Sunny Beach are increasingly getting popular for international spring break guests.

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.