A suggestive virtual walk into Sismondo Castle discovering the extraordinary Fellini world.

Castel Sismondo virtually opens its doors for a video walk inside the exhibition dedicated to Fellini in the year of his birth centenary, to allow the public to visit its rooms, even from a distance.

Marcello and Anita welcome us immediately inside the Trevi Fountain in the sequences of the film "La dolce Vita". It seems as if Anita invites  us to cross the screen and virtually enter into a close up exploration of Fellini’s imagination.

The story continues inside the room dedicated to the Fulgor Cinema, with the history of Italy as protagonist. The cinema becomes a time machine and shows, through emblematic  images of the 1900s, how Fellini fed on newsreels, advertising and documentaries to stage his films and in turn how  the country's television landscape was influenced by Fellini's creative power.

Then the fortress of emotions... with the close-ups and the strength of its actor faces, from Giulietta Masina to Claudia Cardinale, from Anita Ekberg to Marcello Mastroianni rather than Roberto Benigni. Close-up faces of the great Fellini’s actors that accompany us in the creation of this great mythology of the twentieth century cinema.

The virtual walk continues among drawings, Casanova stage costumes, documents, manuscripts, such as  the Book of Dreams and Nino Rota notebooks, with the intuitions and ideas that came from his collaboration with Fellini.

This virtual walk is part of the program of online activities ‘stRIMINIng’ proposed by Rimini Municipality in collaboration with Visit Rimini, to collect and share, on the net, cultural and artistic contents of the city during this period of forced but necessary 'withdrawal'. In such a difficult moment of the health emergency, the exhibition, which had opened for the celebrations of Fellini's birth centenary on 14 December at Castel Sismondo, is now closed in compliance with decrees against Covid-19, but this video allow the public to visit its rooms, even from a distance.

We hope to see you at the Federico Fellini International Museum which will open in December 2020 inside the Rocca Malatestiana, the Fulgor Cinema and around the area  that connects the two buildings.