Panorama view of the upper Valconca valley.
At Coriano, there are the remains of a castle with scarp walls, curtain walls with brackets and a doorway crowned by the coat of arms of the Sassatelli family from Imola who held the feud of Coriano from 1528 to 1580. There are also visible remains of an ancient drawbridge. The internal access to the fortified polygonal area is of more ancient origin and has a tall archaic tower over the doorway which still flaunts part of its battlements. The castle has been almost completely restored recently and now houses an Antiquarium (small museum) containing artefacts , objects and fragments of pottery, which came to light during the restoration work. Nearby you can also visit San Clemente, a place that in recent years underwent interesting restoration work and a upward revaluation of the castle and moat surrounding. The city walls around the village and the two pentagonal fortified towers remain largely intact even today. The castle gate structure still shows the contact points for the large beams that held the drawbridge. On the surrounding walls, the swallowtail battlements that once crowned the walls can still be discerned under the superstructure built later. The little village has two clock faces to tell the time: an old, stone one (from the 13th century) and a more recent ceramic one made by Riminese artist Giò Urbinati. Both are found at the top of the “citizens’ tower”.
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