Consecrated in 1813,[1][2] the Monumental Cemetery of Rimini is the final resting place of several prominent Riminese figures, most notably filmmaker Federico Fellini.

[3] Rimini's municipal government considered siting the new cemetery at the suppressed Convent of St Mary of Graces [it] on the Covignano hill,[3] but the proposal was unpopular.

The square immediately inside the cemetery walls features two triangles of smooth porphyry divided by a diagonal.

[6] To the south, the cemetery is bounded by the Bologna–Ancona railway, leading Fellini to describe it as one of the "least gloomy places in the city, due to the joyful presence of the train that passes nearby".

[6] Under commission from Rimini's municipal government,[7] Arnaldo Pomodoro sculpted Fellini's funerary monument by the cemetery's entrance.

[2][8] Known as La grande prua (The Great Bow),[8][9] the monument is an inverted bronze double-triangle, affixed by a narrow point to the ground.

[7] Fellini is buried with his wife, actress Giulietta Masina, and their son Pierfederico, who died a few days after birth.

The monument was designed by architect Pier Luigi Foschi and artist Vittorio d'Augusta,[15] and resides by the cemetery's entrance, in symmetry with La grande prua.

[17][18] Unveiled in September 2015,[19] the funerary monument of Riminese photographer Marco Pesaresi was designed by Jader Bonfiglioli,[2][19] and consists of a sarcophagus of rough natural travertine slabs, on which sits a steel cross with a Plexiglass sheet on the left arm as a symbol of the Holy Shroud.