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	The name of the Cattolica today evokes a modern tourist resort, full of life and entertainment, destination for young and not so young who spend carefree summer holidays between the beach and the renowned local citizens; a place of today, bright and contemporary. Despite this appearance, Cattolica hides behind its modern guise, an unsuspected past, dating back to Roman times. Its founding date, according to tradition, dates back to 200 BC, for the Empire, who saw this created a first settlement. historical and archaeological remains dating back to the first century BC let you know that the Cattolica was, from its very beginning, a transit town for many travelers and Bologna, they reached Rome and pe pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Loreto and San Pietro.</div>
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	Origin of the name</div>
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	The name of Cattolica origin would instead most recent: it is assumed that it was in 359 AD, at the time of the council of Rimini, the area north of the town was called Cattolica, in reference to the dispute between on the one hand bishops faithful to the Arian heresy and the other Cattolica ones; the latter, who took refuge in the area where today rises Cattolica, begot the name.</div>
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	the beginnings</div>
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	The true date of birth of the city, as in historical terms it is difficult to determine exactly the origin of a center, would traditionally August 16, 1271, the day when the inhabitants of Focara castles trasfeririono in the current Cattolica, submitting to the power of Rimini. Since then the Cattolica became the object of continuous disputes between the aforementioned Rimini, the state of San Pietro, the church of Ravenna and the Lords Malatesta, who managed to maintain control over the city until at least 1504.</div>
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	destination of hikers</div>
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	In the Cattolica Middle Ages dimost&ograve; again worthy of that tradizone, born already from Roman times, the city accommodates for the many travelers who passed by that area for trade, travel and pilgrimages. A vocation that seems the city has never lost over the centuries and millennia. Suffice it to recall, for example, that in 1500, in Cattolica there were more than twenty taverns, ancient and picturesque gatherings of modern and far more numerous local that today inhabit.</div>
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	Cattolica seaside resort and tourist</div>
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	It was not enough, however, it is a while useful and popular travel stop for travelers, to become what Cattolica &#39;today. In fact, to see increasing the number of visitors it was not until the nineteenth century, when the city began to develop tourism of sea bathing. Since then, thanks to the construction (in 1861) railway axis Bologna-Ancona, Cattolica became a destination for tourists, local or otherwise, that here began to build their summer residences and resort.</div>
