Gemmano

 

The surrounding countryside is largely unspoiled and rather unusual with its luxurious wild vegetation mixed in with the cultivated fields, offering a different view around each corner.

 

A unique heritage of the Province of Rimini, and important at a regional and national level, are the Grottoes of Onfero and the nature reserve which surrounds them.They are interesting to explore and both easy and fun to visit. 

 

The most uncontaminated and unusual nature of the Dominion of the Malatestas we find it to they Gemmate and in the earths that are to his feet. The hills are various, luxuriant of wild vegetation that contends space to the cultivated fields, so moved by to always introduce behind always different sceneries to every curve and new lights to every time and season. A true treasure for the lovers of the environments where the signs of the man are few and the country it is still owner.

 

And as if it was not enough there are the Caves of Onferno and the natural Reserve that it surrounds her: an unique patrimony in the Riminese, of regional relief and for many aspects national, interesting to know how much easy and amusing to visit. For the one who loves the green they Gemmate it is an ideal destination, a place where the excursion the vacation in the country they have indeed a particular taste.

 

Legend wants that the name they Gemmate you derive from Gem in hand. You narrates that a soldier etrusco has been killed by the Romans while it was bringing a ring the fiancèe. Then the origins of the name could derive from the Roman epoch.

 

On the slopes of the hill there are not still rests of the Romanesque civilization brought to the light. From finds and documents it results that the place since then he was individualized as "deep geminum." Subsequently the commune belonged to the Malatestas and therefore to the Pontifical State up to the unity of Italy.

 

On the three hills that dominate the town territory you/they were built the castles of Onferno, Marazzanos, Gemmate, of which today the ruins still exist partly restored. Legend wants that Giving Alighieri, after having stopped from the count Ugolino of the Faggiola while it was running away from Florence to go to Ravenna, the valley of the Basin going down, is sheltered in the caves carsiche of Onferno (in origin called Hell) and to the same he is inspired for writing the hymn.

 

The territory gemmanese has also been important battleground in the Second World war with the passage of the front in the '44 and the staving in of the Gothic Line from the Allies.