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Tempio Malatestiano

Rimini, Italy · built 1401

The Tempio Malatestiano (Italian for Malatesta Temple) officially Cathedral Basilica of Santa Colomba is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Originally named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450. Santo Colomba refers to Columba of Sens.

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