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Malatesta Temple <\/strong>(Tempio Malatesta or Duomo<\/strong>) is an authentic jewel of the Italian Renaissance<\/strong>. It was commissioned by Sigismondo Malatesta around the middle of the 15th century to perpetuate his family’s and his own glory. It was Leon Battista Alberti<\/strong>‘s first architectural work. It was begun in 1447 and, even though it was never finished, it remains a great manifesto of Renaissance architecture.<\/p>\n

Alberti transformed the pre-existing church of San Francesco into a work of shocking novelty<\/strong>. The reference to the classical style is evident in Alberti’s intervention: the great arch of the fa\u00e7ade, inspired by the Arch of Augustus and bearing, on the frieze, the Latin inscription ‘Sigimundus Pandulfus Malatesta Pan F,V. Fecit Anno Gratiae MCCCCL”; the arches on the sides recalling the Tiberius Bridge; the 7 sarcophagi honouring the memories of illustrious poets, philosophers, scientists and distinguished citizens of Rimini, which are placed in each of them; the strongly plastic solution of the volumes constitute the typological characteristics of the new spatial concept of Humanism.<\/p>\n

The entire building stands on a podium crowned by a band on which many Malatesta heraldic elements<\/strong> can be seen: from the actual family coat of arms (with the chequered band) to that with Sigismondo’s personal coat of arms (S and I), alternating with shields with the four-petal rose and the elephant.<\/p>\n

Inside of Malatesta Temple, particularly noteworthy are the Chapel of the Angels<\/strong> (or of Isotta), which contains the sepulchral ark of Sigismondo’s wife, Isotta, and Giotto’s Crucifix<\/strong>, painted on a panel in 1300; Piero della Francesca’s fresco<\/strong>, painted in 1451 and depicting Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta genuflecting before St Sigismondo; the tomb of Sigismondo himself, located to the right of the entrance; the Arch of the Ancestors, where Sigismondo wanted to place the bones of his ancestors and descendants; a large canvas by Vasari<\/strong> depicting St Francis receiving the stigmata.<\/p>\n

Malatesta Temple is now the Cathedral of Rimini<\/strong>. It is dedicated to St Columba, like the old city cathedral, demolished in the early 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22928,"template":"","poi_category":[90],"yoast_head":"\nMalatesta Temple, a jewel of the Italian Renaissance - Visit Rimini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malatesta Temple is an authentic jewel of the Italian Renaissance. It was commissioned by Sigismondo Malatesta Lord of Rimini in 1447\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malatesta Temple, a jewel of the Italian Renaissance - Visit Rimini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malatesta Temple is an authentic jewel of the Italian Renaissance. It was commissioned by Sigismondo Malatesta Lord of Rimini in 1447\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Rimini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-10T11:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tempio_malatestiano-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/\",\"name\":\"Visit Rimini\",\"description\":\"Un nuovo sito targato WordPress\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tempio_malatestiano-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tempio_malatestiano-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Tempio malatestiano\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/\",\"name\":\"Malatesta Temple, a jewel of the Italian Renaissance - Visit Rimini\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-27T08:18:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-10T11:06:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Malatesta Temple is an authentic jewel of the Italian Renaissance. It was commissioned by Sigismondo Malatesta Lord of Rimini in 1447\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"item\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/point-of-interest\/the-malatesta-temple\/#webpage\"}}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/punto-interesse\/14662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/punto-interesse"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/punto-interesse"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"poi_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitrimini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi_category?post=14662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}