Wender·Vista
Rimini
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileItaly
on the Adriatic coast, in Emilia-Romagna

Rimini

— — a Roman bridge and a long, flat sea.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“A small Roman city on the Adriatic, founded as Ariminum in 268 BCE and still walked daily across the Tiberius Bridge, finished in 21 CE. Federico Fellini was born here in 1920 and built much of Amarcord from its winter streets and seafront hotels. The beach runs roughly fifteen kilometres south to Riccione; the old town sits inland of it, around the Tempio Malatestiano.

from the studio
Rimini
— bring it home

Rimini, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

— about Rimini

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

Rimini sits on the northern Adriatic in Emilia-Romagna, where the Marecchia meets the sea, roughly 110 kilometres south of Venice and 120 kilometres east of Florence by road. The Romans founded Ariminum in 268 BCE as a coastal anchor on the Via Aemilia and the Via Flaminia. The modern province has a population of around 150,000, swelling each summer with Adriatic resort traffic. The flat sandy beach runs roughly fifteen kilometres south to Riccione without break.

— informed by Wikipedia — Rimini
— the stone

Two Roman monuments still anchor the old town: the Arch of Augustus, dedicated in 27 BCE at the southern end of the Via Aemilia, is the oldest surviving Roman triumphal arch; and the Tiberius Bridge, completed in 21 CE, still carries traffic across the Marecchia today. Inland of them stands the Tempio Malatestiano, an unfinished fifteenth-century church reworked by Leon Battista Alberti for Sigismondo Malatesta from 1453, with interior sculpture by Agostino di Duccio and a Crucifix attributed to Giotto.

— the season

Rimini lives in two seasons. The Adriatic resort season runs roughly from late May through early September, when the beach concessions open and the seafront promenade fills nightly. October through April the town empties back to its residents: the streets of Federico Fellini's childhood and the long misty seafront of Amarcord. Fellini was born in Rimini in 1920 and is buried in the Cimitero Civico; the Fellini Museum opened across the Castel Sismondo and the Palazzo del Fulgor in 2021.

— where
Italy · Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna
— elevation
5 m · 16 ft
— position
44.0594° N · 12.5683° E
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
25 km SW
San Marino
microstate hilltop capital
10 km S
Riccione
Adriatic resort town
50 km N
Ravenna
Byzantine mosaic city
70 km SW
Urbino
Renaissance hill town
N
Rimini
San Marino
Riccione
Ravenna
Urbino
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Rimini — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

Dedicated in 27 BCE, it is the oldest surviving Roman triumphal arch. It marked the end of the Via Flaminia at the city's southern edge and remains in its original position, still standing as a city gate.

Yes. Federico Fellini was born in Rimini on 20 January 1920 and used the town as the setting for Amarcord (1973) and elements of I Vitelloni (1953). He is buried in the city's main cemetery.

Rimini's continuous sandy beach runs roughly fifteen kilometres south to Riccione without a natural break. Most of it is divided into numbered bagni, the beach concessions that rent loungers from late May through early September.

A fifteenth-century church that Sigismondo Malatesta commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to remodel from 1453 onward. It contains sculpture by Agostino di Duccio and a Crucifix attributed to Giotto. The marble façade was left unfinished at Sigismondo's death.

Frequent trains from Bologna Centrale reach Rimini in roughly an hour. The Federico Fellini Airport on the southern edge of the city handles seasonal European routes; Bologna's larger airport is the backup off-season.

Yes. The Republic of San Marino lies roughly 25 kilometres southwest and is reached by a Bonelli Bus service from Rimini's railway station in about fifty minutes. It is the closest of the European microstates.

— about the piece in your home

It carries well for that recipient. The Tiberius Bridge and the long flat coast are images locals recognise first, and the Fellini reference reads for anyone who has watched Amarcord. A Small or Medium ships safely overseas.

The piece sits well in Coastal-modern, Old World Italian, and Mediterranean rooms. The sandstone and Adriatic-blue palette grounds against pale plaster, terracotta tile, and weathered wood; the bridge silhouette anchors a long horizontal wall.

The current Italian-coastal direction favours real-place specificity such as Rimini, Amalfi, and Sirmione over generic Mediterranean blue-and-white. The Tiberius Bridge and the long Adriatic line read as a particular town, not a stock motif.

Above a standard three-seat sofa, the Large reads at the right scale. For a longer wall, a four-tile Mural extends the coast line further. A console table takes the Small or Medium well.

Yes — choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish for those rooms. Both shed water, resist scratches, and clean with a damp microfibre. The Glossy finish belongs to dry display walls.

A soft microfibre cloth and clean water. The colour is infused into the ceramic surface and does not lift. Skip ammonia-based glass cleaners, which can dull the thin protective finish over time.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece comes from Reid Wender's single curated studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. No licensing, no third-party prints; the eye and the hand are the same across the whole atlas.

— if this one stayed with you

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— a collection

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painted slow.

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