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MONUMENTS PROVINCE OF RIMINIMONUMENTS RIMINIPiazza Tre MartiriPiazza Tre Martiri is the heart of the city of Rimini (Historical centre). It almost corresponds to the ancient Roman forum of Ariminum. Before the end of World War II, it was called Piazza Giulio Cesare in honour of Julius Caesar, who, according to an ancient tradition, took up quarters with the Legio XIII at Rimini and, in 50 B.C., held in the forum the famous speech to enlist volunteers in his army, as the Suggestum Caesaris - an inscription standing in the square and containing the presumed speech of Caesar – recalls. In 1933, on the occasion of Rome’s natal day, Benito Mussolini presented the city of Rimini with a bronze statue representing Julius Caesar. The statue still stands in a corner of Piazza Tre Martiri. In 1944, the three partisans Adelio Pagliarani, Luigi Nicoḷ and Gino Cappelli were captured near a clandestine base and hanged by the neck in Piazza Giulio Cesare on August 16th of the same year. Consequently, after the end of World War II, Piazza Giulio Cesare was called Piazza Tre Martiri in honour of those three partisans, named Tre Martiri, i.e. three martyrs. On the edge of Piazza Tre Martiri stand, among numerous beautiful historical edifices, the imposing Palazzo Brioli-Garampi, divided by the Clock Tower, and the Church of the Minims of St. Francis from Paola. It is also worth seeing the small Temple to St Antony, erected in Piazza Tre Martiri on the spot where St Antony of Padua performed the miracle of the mule.
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