The museums comprises a rich collection of original documents, photos and objects that helps visitors to better understand the events connected with the rising of fascism, the 2nd World War and the resistance in the Imola’s area.

20th Century Exhibition of the Resistance
via F.lli Bandiera 23
tel. 0542.24422
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.cidra.it

The site offers full access to the disabled

Opening hours:
Tuesday & Thursday 8.30am-12.30pm & 2.30pm-4.30pm; Saturday 8.30am-12.30pm
upon appointment Dott. Orazi Marco cell. 349.4292866

Closed from 1st to 31st August included

Admission free

360 gradi
via Donizetti 27
tel. 0542.1880924

Opening hours:
12.00am to 2.00pm & 6.00pm to 10.00pm (Friday and Saturday 6.00pm to 22.30pm)

Closing day: Tuesday
Period of opening: all year round except from 5th to 20th August 2024

Menù: pizza, spaghetti, hamburger
Places: 40
Services: accessible to the disabled, adjacent parking, credit card accepted

Walking through the streets of Imola, or better yet looking at a map or an aerial photo, one immediately has the sensation not of a town made up of a mass of roads and buildings which have slowly risen, but of a well planned urban structure rationally organised and characterised by two main orthogonal roads (via Emilia, via Appia and via Mazzini) which cross in the centre of the town (near the Town Hall). From these main roads a series of side streets extend at right angles, therefore creating regular blocks.

This antique planning is a Roman territorial project about 2000 years old. The urban planning of today’s town is still based on the Roman Forum Cornelii, which was founded in the II century BC along the important via Aemilia.

The Imola International Academy Foundation “Incontri con il Maestro” is a school of advanced piano performance specialization, located in the beautiful setting of the Rocca Sforzesca, a mediaeval fortress in Imola.

Founded in 1989, with the aim of helping young musicians to grow and develop their talent, the Academy has attained worldwide fame thanks to the excellence of its teaching philosophy, which has resulted in over 100 first prizes in the most prestigious international piano competitions having been won by its students; no other piano school can boast of such an achievement.

During the last several years the school has also, in addition to piano, offered tuition in fortepiano, flute, violin, violoncello, chamber music, composition and conducting.

Imola International Academy Foundation “Incontri con il Maestro”
piazzale Giovanni dalle Bande Nere 12
tel. 0542.30802
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.accademiapianistica.org

Not accessible to the disabled

Acquario
viale Marconi 127
tel. 0542.42360 – 333.8987921

Opening hours:
12.00pm to 2.30pm & 6.00pm to 10.30pm

Closing day: Monday
Period of opening: all year round

Menu: chinese cuisine
Places: 50
Services: accessible to the disabled, adjacent parking, credit cards accepted

Al Parco kiosk
via Romagnoli 15
tel. 348.6910573

Opening hours:
9.00am to 3.00pm

Closing day: Saturday & Sunday
Period of opening: all year round except from 13th to 15th August 2024

Menù: piadina (unleavened bread), fried piadina and fried food in general, sandwiches, salads,drinks, coffee
Services: accessible to the disabled and adjacent parking

Amici Miei
via Emilia Levante 23 – Località la Selva
tel. 0542.609174

Opening hours:
12.00pm to 2.30pm & 6.30pm to 12.00am

Closing day: Wednesday at dinner
Period of opening: all year round except from 22nd July to 11th August 2024

Menù: local cusine, fish & pizza
Places: 50
Services: accessible to the disabled, adjacent parking and credit cards accepted

After studying Fine Arts in Bologna, Montevecchi taught in Imola for some time. He never quit the Academy’s rich milieux by attending courses and keeping in contacts with his colleagues for most of his life. Owing to his troubled personal life he had to try his hand at several skills, depending on the clients’ requests, such as painting on ceramics, bas-rilief, interior decoration, poster designing, thus leaving aside portrait painting, in which is excelled thanks to his very elegant but incisive stroke.

Since a very young age he expressed his passion for colours and paintbrushes, even though he favoured humble handicrafts.

This strange beginning, along with his family origins – his parents were farmers – are the elements where his main themes can be traced back to – subjects related to the simple tasks of working the fields. Throughout his works the painter praises the sacrifices made by the farmers, the difficulties and hardships they had to face and the dignity and simplicity with which they faced life and how the beauty of nature was their reward.

He was a famous socialist political figure and since a young age was a protagonist of the struggles which eventually brought him in prison and to exile but nevertheless developed his political ideals and extended his contacts far beyond the town of Imola.

He was a charismatic leader, author of a text entitled “Letter to the friends of Romagna”, printed in 1879 where he urged to abandon armed fighting and to start democratic negotiations. In 1882 he won the elections as the first socialist member of the Italian Parliament and in 1889 he became the first socialist leader to head the town council. His remains are in the cemetery of Imola, with a dedication on a plaque by Giovanni Pascoli.

From the very start in 1946 Andrea Raccagni’s works were the result of a restless and non-conformist personality.

His first paintings were due to the influence of the pre-informal and later rational-geometric and finally surrealist currents; these experiences helped him develop his own personal artistic expression, aimed at exploring – by means of an endless variety of materials – the clash between rationality and irrationality, light and darkness, hence the great enigma of life.

Andy & Flò
via Lughese 24
tel. 0542.640109
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.andyeflo.it

Opening hours:
12.00pm to 2.30pm & 6.00pm to 11.00pm

Closing day: Monday
Period of opening: all year round except from 16th to 30th September 2024

Menu: pizza, fish and savoury snacks
Places: 80
Services: accessible to the disabled, adjacent parking, credit card accepted

Anonima Fornelli
via Emilia 38
tel. 0542.24755 – 347.3158607
e-mail: [email protected]
web: www.anonimafornelli.it

Opening hours:
from Monday to Friday 12.00pm to 3.00pm & 7.00pm to 11.00pm
Saturday 7.00pm to 11.00pm

Closing day: Sunday
Period of opening: all year round except from 12th to 18th August 2024

Menù: Italian cuisine
Places: 34 (50 in summertime)
Services: accessible to the disabled in Summer (dehor), adjacent parking, credit cards accpeted

He was a well-known doctor from Imola. An excellent student of the prominent Doctor Marcello Malpighi with whom he divided the curiosity and passion for the sciences during a period when the church imposed limits on these studies. He became a University professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Bologna and today is remembered as the founder for the basic theories for the study of the anatomy and physiology of the ear.

The impressive lateral towers are all that remains of the 15th century gate, built by the sons of the craftsman Giorgio Fiorentino, which replaced the former gate of the Piolo.

When it was still standing, a central arch joined the two towers and the nearby square had a rising bridge.

Appia Gate Towers
via Appia corner via Galeati