The clever people of Rimini
The Statue of Pope Paul V in Piazza Cavour is the main focus of a cute story that goes back to the Cisalpine Republic created in 1797 by Napoleon Bonaparte, which was in fact a subject to France.
The people of Rimini really feared that the Pope's monument would be destroyed by the French authority. So they came up with the idea to cut the Pope's tiara (hat of authority) and replace it with a mitre (I guess bishop's hat?). That's how Pope Paul V was made to be San Gaudenzo, the patron saint of Rimini :-)



market on Piazza Cavour