The Museum of the Queen of Cattolica is located in one of the oldest areas of the city, once the ancient Fort of year 1200, which stood along the axis of the Via Flaminia. The walls itself of the museum date back to 1584 when the building, built along the Via Flaminia, housed the ‘”Hospital of the Pilgrims,” ​​one of the many taverns along the old road that continued towards Rome, and crossed by many devout pilgrims. The hospital was annexed to the former Church of the Holy Cross, also called the church of the Hospital by virtue of its guesthouse, that now houses the Municipal Gallery, which exhibits the most significant testimony of the history of Cattolica. In the sixteenth century the Hospital consisted of one room and a kitchen, which served as an inn to refresh the travelers, and of some rooms where were two dormitories, each with ten beds, one for men and one for women; the Hospital of the Pilgrims remained active until 1839, when it was turned into barracks for the police of the Papal States. The papal barracks became civil in 1931, and hosted the Carabinieri Corps until 2000, when the building was completely restored into the Museum of the Queen. Here has been conveyed the collection that was part of the Museum of Cattolica, first located in the Town Hall and later at the Multipurpose Cultural Centre (where library and media center are). Both floors propose two different aspects of the city’s past: on the first floor is the archaeological section with finds from the Roman period that tell of the daily life of the early settlements, between the first and second century AD, through cooking utensils and other small objects; the second floor is dedicated to the Fishing Marine, where there is an exhibition of boat models of various sizes and from different historical periods that tell about construction and navigation techniques and about great characters of history. As in the case of the City Museum of Rimini, the Museum of the Queen of Cattolica could not house everything, so we find the remains of a Roman house exhibited at the Covered Market Square. Staying in the heart of the historic city center, just a few steps from the Museum of the Queen and the Municipal Gallery, is also what remains from the ancient Malatesta Fortress of Cattolica, built in 1491 during the rule of the Malatesta Family to control smuggling maritime trade and to offer protection to the local population in case of incursion by Turkish pirates. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was home to the Captain of Cattolica and was also equipped with a bell, a fundamental tool to alert the population in case of danger. It was owned by the aristocratic Farnese Family of Urbino for several years and now private property not open to the public.