Forlì

Sister cities

• Foggia
• Aveiro
• Elektrėnai
• Szolnok
• Peterborough
• Bourges
• Płock

History

The surroundings of Forlì have been inhabited since the Paleolithic: a site, Ca' Belvedere of Monte Poggiolo, has revealed thousands of chipped flints in strata dated 800,000 years before the present era, which indicates a flint-knapping industry producing sharp-edged tools in a pre-Acheulean phase of the Paleolithic. Forlì was founded after the Roman conquest of the remaining Gallic villages, about the time the Via Aemilia was built. With no clear evidence, the exact date this occurred is still under debate, though some historians believe that the first settlement of the ancient Roman Forum was built in approximately 188 BC by consul Gaius Livius Salinator (the same that fought Hasdrubal Barca and vanquished him at the banks of the Metaurus River in 207 BC), who gave it the Latin name Forum Livii, meaning "the place of the gens Livia". Others argue the town may have been founded later, during the time of Julius Caesar. In 88 BC, the city was destroyed during the civil wars of Gaius Marius and Sulla, but later rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius. After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the city was incorporated into the realms of Odoacer and of the Ostrogothic Kingdom. From the end of the 6th century to 751, Forlì was an outlying part of the Byzantine / Eastern Roman power in Italy known as the Exarchate of Ravenna. During this time the Germanic Lombards repeatedly took the city – in 665, 728, and 742. It was finally incorporated with the Papal States in 757, as part of the Donation of Pepin. against a Guelph allied force, including Florentine troops, at Civitella on 14 November 1276; and at Forlì itself against a powerful French contingent sent by Pope Martin IV, on 15 May 1282, in a battle cited by Dante Alighieri (who was hosted in the city in 1303 by…

Most-observed species

• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  473
• Eurasian Kestrel

  Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  376
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  343
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  299
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  296
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  296
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  253
• Cattle Egret

  Bubulcus ibis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  238

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2026-03-26
  6 km NNW of Montale, Italy
• M 4.3 — 2026-01-13
  1 km NNW of Fornace Zarattini, Italy
• M 4.6 — 2026-01-13
  2 km N of Fornace Zarattini, Italy
• M 3.7 — 2024-02-17
  5 km SSE of Modigliana, Italy
• M 4.1 — 2023-10-28
  2 km SSW of Bagnolo di Po, Italy
• M 3.9 — 2023-10-25
  0 km S of Ficarolo, Italy