The territory of Rimini Riviera has two precious jewels: the coast
from Bellaria lgea Marina to Cattolica, and the hills inland. Everyone
knows the 40-kilometre coast and the many and outstanding visitor attractions
of the Riviera, but fewer people perhaps are familiar with the
hill country. The landscapes, villages, castles and fortresses
of the
twenty municipalities which, like natural
balconies, overlook Rimini Riviera deserve to be better-known. This is the territory of the
Malatesta Seignory, so named because every corner bears visible traces of the House of
Malatesta which dominated the area from the Middle Ages
to the
Renaissance.