The Train Mussolini Wanted and No One Remembers: the Rimini-San Marino Railway
The Train Mussolini Wanted and No One Remembers: the Rimini-San Marino Railway Summer 1932. The holidaymakers getting off at Rimini station stop and stare. In front of the tracks is something they’ve never seen before. It’s not the usual steam train with its smoke and screeching. It’s an electric railcar. Polished. Brand new. And it’s […]
Porta Galliana: Rimini’s Secret Gateway Hidden for Centuries
Porta Galliana: Rimini’s Secret Gateway Hidden for Centuries Three metres and twenty-five centimetres below street level. That is the distance separating the Rimini you walk through every day — the one of scooters, morning coffees at the bar, tourists glued to their GPS — from another city entirely. Buried. Forgotten. Guarded by a Gothic arch […]