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Cesenatico is a port

Port

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town with about 20,000 inhabitants on the Adriatic

Adriatic Sea

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coast of Italy

Italy

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. It is located in the province of Forlì-Cesena

Province of Forlì-Cesena

The Province of Forlì-Cesena is a province in the Emilia–Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Forlì.It has an area of 2,377 km², and a total population of 371,318 . There are 30 comuni in the province, see Comuni of the Province of Forlì-Cesena...

in the region of Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna

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, about 30 km south of Ravenna

Ravenna

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. Cesenatico's port canal was surveyed and drawn by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...

at the request of Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia , Duke of Valentinois, was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal. He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia; Giovanni Borgia , Duke of Gandia; and Gioffre Borgia , Prince of Squillace...

, as part of his plans to fortify the nearby town of Cesena

Cesena

Cesena is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, south of Ravenna and west of Rimini, on the Savio River, co-chief of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. It is at the foot of the Apennines, and about 15 km from the Adriatic Sea.-History:Cesena was originally an Umbrian...

History

Cesenatico was founded in 1302. It was considered part of the city of Cesena

Cesena

until it was incorporated at the beginning of the 18th century. Its port and canal were built in 1500, with the canal originally planned to reach Cesena

Cesena

, some 15 km inland. At the request of Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia

the canal was later surveyed by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

. It is often claimed erroneously that da Vinci designed the canal. In 1722 James Francis Edward Stuart

James Francis Edward Stuart

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(the 'Old Pretender' to the British throne) stayed in Cesenatico's Capuchin

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

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monastery

Monastery

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Main sights

Today Cesenatico is a popular tourist

Tourism

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resort. It is home to the Marine Museum (Museo della Marineria), where historic fishing boats are displayed in the canal.
The town also features a 118 m high skyscraper

Skyscraper

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, which for a few years was among the thirty highest buildings in Europe.

Notable people

Cesenatico is the hometown of cookbook author Marcella Hazan

Marcella Hazan

Marcella Hazan, maiden name Marcella Polini, is an Italian cookery writer who writes in English. Her cookbooks are credited with introducing the public in the United States and Britain to the techniques of traditional Italian cooking...

, the soccer player Giorgio Ghezzi

Giorgio Ghezzi

Giorgio Ghezzi , nicknamed "Kamikaze", was an Italian football player.Born at Cesenatico, he started his career at Rimini and Modena, then played at Internazionale as goalkeeper for 7 years, from 1951 to 1958, for 191 total matches...

, and cyclist Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely considered one of the best climbers in professional road bicycle racing...

(to whom a monument is dedicated here). It is also home to a historic Catholic church where regular mass services are held.

Events

Cesenatico hosts every year the final stage of the Italian Mathematics Olympiad, a mathematical battle of wits between the best 300 high school students in Italy. It is usually held in the week-end following the first Thursday of May.

Cesenatico holds the Annual "Marco Pantani Nove Colli" cycling road event across nine of the Apennine foothills in May of each year. Other events associated include the Nove Colli Off Road and Junior Event in September each year.

Frazioni

Bagnarola, Borella, Cannucceto, Sala, Valverde, Villalta, Villamarina, Zadina.

Sister cities

The town is twinned

Town twinning

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with: Aubenas

Aubenas

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, France Delfzijl

Delfzijl

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, Netherlands Schwarzenbek

Schwarzenbek

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, Germany Sierre

Sierre

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, Switzerland Zelzate

Zelzate

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, Belgium

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