Slow urban canal with arbours here and there on pilework and the houses stan upright taking place for hand”.
I marinate Dark-skinned in his poetry, “The house where I have been born”, he describes his and today my country, Cesenatico.
His history is other only the history of the maritime call that the city of Cesena made build in the first decade of 1300.
In the Adriatic sea the ports are numerous canal and almost all, in the essential lines they resemble each other, can vary the dimensions, the depths, but there you are no great differences and in the greatest part of the cases they are porticcioli quite faraway at the most ancient urban centre. The port of Cesenatico is instead of the principal axis around which it rotates the country:
the houses aligned on his shores, almost Venetian foundations, with the perpendicular walks to them.
In 1502 Caesar Borgia gave task to Leonardo Da Vinci of transforming, the humble seafaring village in the porticciolo that exists still today identically in his original project.
Cesenatico was conquered by the Serene Highness Republic of Venice, then to the papal domination, but the connections of the of Romagna marine village with the lagoon veneta were never interrupted.
In fact the Veneto, Chioggia above all, there came the first fishermen who settled here. Beforehand for some months in the year, during determinate fishing countries, then firmly, so that it anchors today many surnames they are clearly of origin veneta. Another important personage for my small town is a Garibaldi, who in 1849 did a short stop in city to stock up and to make resting his by now dying dear Anita, today the most important holiday is still dedicated to him, and it unwinds on the first Sunday of August:
the Palio of the abundance between the wards of the city, an original challenge between the youth and less young than the city that is challenged in the slope of a slippery pole put on the port and that they fall ruinously on water between the general hilarity!!! After the unity of Italy, Cesenatico was living on fishing and in 1863 it was counting 786 fishermen about 5725 inhabitants. The fished fish was kept in the iceboxes or preserves that other were not that profound was filled with ice or snow. Today there can still be visited 3 of 20 original iceboxes.
There came to the first ones of 1900 the fashion of the “baths of sea” and so let's have arrived to our days!!!!.
The daily life of this city without square unwinds still today long the quays of the port canal, where there are useful the boats of the modern flotilla with fishing, the nets on the fishing boats, the knots of long mooring the bollards and the ancient fish shop anchors in activity. The soul of the civic life is long the port canal, where there appear the characteristic restaurants and trattorias, famous for their seafaring kitchen.
The Port holds canal 1983, in his most ancient stroke, The floating Museum of the navy of Cesenatico the single one existed in Italy, constituted by ten traditional boats of the Adriatic one that, in summer, are equipped by the multicolours “sails to the third” is decorated by you with the symbols that were identifying the families of the fishermen.
Some boats possess also decorations a time used to propitiatory reason, and that held during the Christmas period The floating Crib that arranges the seafaring traditions and the religious life of the city.
In this section there are shown to you traditional boats of the high one and Adriatic middle one what they attended the port after the disappearance of the Latin sail and before the Advent of the motorisation their names are Fishing boat, Trabaccolo with fishing, Battana, Mouse, Trawler and Trabaccolo with transport.
On the port risalente is also the parochial Church in 1350 about dedicated to San Giacomo and San Cristoforo where there can be seen two paintings of Francesco Andreini, of the school of the Curs.
And then the wide beaches, the park of East where a time was cultivating hemp and grapes and what to short the terme, the pine wood Zadina will see rising with an extension of 5 hectares of farnie, ilexes, elms, the Gardens to the sea, the sporting installations and the aquatic parks.
The interesting places in the neighbourhoods Cesenatico are huge … it is possible to choose to go towards the historical Cesena with the wonderful Library Malatestiana, Holy Leo, Verucchio, Holy Archangel, Torriana and Montebello, or to follow naturalist itineraries inside the National Park of the Woods Casentinesi of the Mountains Falterona and Campigna to horse between Tuskany and Romagna.
To follow the coast towards North for the precious Ravenna or towards South in the chaotic, solar and vivacious Rimini without forgetting the historical Republic of San Marino, the most ancient in the world!
On the seashore of the port canal tens of restaurants appear, what they maintain the ancient seafaring tradition lives also in the kitchen, preparing tasty plates based on the freshest fish.
Refined premises, but also trattorias and taverns, are a goal of a true and own "pilgrimage" enogastronomico during every month of the year and they have done from Cesenatico one of the capitals of the Italian kitchen.
The kitchen is rich and tasty. The dough prepared with foil done to hand and drawn with the rolling pin for rule of art, is the queen of the typical kitchen of the place. Between the soups famous in broth the toes, fillings of ricotta and cheese and the passatelli, whose mixture is formed by eggs, cheese, grated bread, muscat peel of lemon and walnut. The pastas combine preparation simplicity with tasty juices. The tagliatelle, the strozzapreti kneaded with flour of wheat, salt and it waters and drawn to foil spessa cut to tapes rolled up between the hands and broken to the length of some centimetres.
Typical seconds of meat are the wether, the sausage, always accompanied at the by now mythical piadina done with flour of wheat, water, salt, lard and a pinch of bicarbonate, thin pull with the mattarello is made cook on the text of terracotta, which allows the uniform cooking it. On the coast and then particularly to Cesenatico, the risotto with the vongole, the cuttlefishes with the peas, the blue fish, the squills and the sauce. They are added to the simple menus but extremely tasty the sweets: the English soup, the doughnut, the bustrengo kneaded with honey and pieces of fruit, the savour, jam based on must of grapes, to whom they are added fruit of season, almonds and walnuts.
The fish, resource of great importance for the civic economy, is also a protagonist of three great manifestations, which recall each year visitors' thousands:
Blue like the Fish (in March) gastronomic review for the exploitation of the blue fish, considered a poor fish, but of great nutritional value and the very tasty meats.
Great Rustida of the Fishermen (August 14) traditional rendezvous of August holiday, in whom the fishermen prepare big is grilled by you of fish to offer to tourists and residents directly on the port canal.
Autumn The fish does holiday to Cesenatico a whole week-end dedicated to the ichthyic products, resource of great importance by the civic economy, with tastings of plates of the seafaring kitchen, sale of fresh fish, exhibitions market.
That to say about other, I would want to remember Mark Pantani, great athlete and unlucky young man who has won everything but the not biggest battle, that one of the life.
To Cesenatico they breathe still his victories, but also the sadness of having lost it so sadly.
So much let's have loved him that already has his monument that civic we have wanted in order that it is always remembered, like a hero of other times!!!!
This is my Cesenatico!! …. there I hope to have broadcast the wish of knowing it and to visit it also only for a few days ….e it is never known of remaining to us, as so many people have done.
Or because they have met the love on the beach or in disco, or only because they have fallen in love with this enchanting and quiet country!!!!!!
Let's wait for you!!!
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