Forlì (Latin: Forum Livii) is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì, of the humanist historian Flavio Biondo, of the famous physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
The Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was born near Forlì as were his daughter Edda and his son Romano.
Forlì is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena.
The surroundings of Forlì have been inh...
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Forlì (Latin: Forum Livii) is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì, of the humanist historian Flavio Biondo, of the famous physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni.
The Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was born near Forlì as were his daughter Edda and his son Romano.
Forlì is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena.
The surroundings of Forlì have been inhabited since the Paleolithic: a site, Ca' Belvedere of Monte Poggiolo, has revealed thousands of chipped flints in strata dated 800,000 years before present, which indicates a flint-knapping industry producing sharp-edged tools in a pre-Acheulean phase of the Paleolithic .
According to legend, the city of Forlì was founded in 188 BC by the consul Gaius Livius Salinator, who confronted Hasdrubal Barca and vanquished him at the banks of the Metaurus River (207 BC). The old city was destroyed in 88 BC during the civil wars of Gaius Marius and...
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