Bertinoro

History

Main sights

• The Rocca, built around the year 1000. It is now home to the Museum of Holy Arts and a section of the University of Bologna.
• The Communal Palace, built in 1306 by Pino I Ordelaffi.
• Colonna delle Anelle. It is a column in white stone with 12 rings erected in 1300 by the noble families of the town to show their hospitality. Each one of the rings corresponded to one family, when the foreigners arrived in the town and tied the horse bridles to a ring they selected their host.
• The Cathedral, built in the 16th century.
• The Pieve of San Donato, in the frazione of Polenta. It became famous as the object of a poem by Giosuè Carducci. It has maintained parts of the original late 9th century edifice.

  Culture

People

• Obadiah ben Abraham, also known as "The Bartenura" after the town, or "RAV-רע"ב," an abbreviation for "Rabbi Ovadia Bartenuna" was a 15th-century rabbi and commentator of the Mishnah.

  Twin towns

• Ale, Sweden
• Kaufungen, Germany
• Budești, Moldova