The Fortress of Forlimpopoli was built by Cardinal Egidio Carrilla de Albornoz in the second half of the fourteenth century. It is one of the many monuments that can be visited, upon reservation, in the city that gave birth to the famous gastronome Pellegrino Artusi, author of the manual "Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well".
The fortress, one of the best preserved in Romagna, dominates with its imposing bulk the old town and the main square named after Giuseppe Garibaldi. It has a quadrangular plan with mighty round towers and is surrounded, on the eastern and southern sides, by a moat. It houses the Town Hall of Forlimpopoli, the Cinema-Theatre "Giuseppe Verdi" – the theatre of the "Passatore" gang’s feat on the night of 25 January 1851 – and, on the ground floor, the Civic Archaeological Museum "Tobia Aldini" which collects finds from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Roman period up to the Renaissance period.
