Preparation has long been underway for the 25th annual Verucchio festival, curated once again by Ludovico Einaudi, the internationally renowned Italian pianist and composer. The festival is one of the highlights of the summer in Romagna, and is well worth a visit from Rimini. Verucchio, located strategically on a hilltop overlooking the sea, is an [...]
Archive for April, 2009
A sneak peek at the 25th annual Verucchio Festival
Monday, April 27th, 2009Touring inland around Rimini
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009One of the first things to hit any curious tourist visiting Rimini, is how beautiful and hidden the inland area is. So much of the publicity material for the city – justifiably – concentrates on the kilometres of beachfront, the hotels, discos, and fun of the coastline, while neglecting to mention that there’s a completely [...]
Rimini Libera – Celebrate the 25th of April
Thursday, April 16th, 2009Italy’s national festival of liberation, on the 25th of April, is celebrated with style in Rimini with events organised by A.N.P.I (the national partisans’ association) under the banner ‘Rimini Libera’ (Rimini Free). It’s a festival that celebrates the uprisings that brought an end to the Nazi-Fascist rule in Italy in 1945. It’s a festival with [...]
New restored print of Fellini’s Amarcord
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Some good news: there’s a new re-mastered print of Federico Fellini’s masterpiece Amarcord, winner of the 1974 Oscar for best foreign film, as well as a Golden Globe and various other prizes. The film is perhaps the most personal of all Fellini’s works, and centre’s very much on his youth growing up in Rimini during [...]
Good start to the summer season, as Rimini’s hotels fill for Easter
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009All things considered – a worldwide financial crisis, and a pessimistic weather forecast for the Easter weekend – the kick-off to the summer tourist season went well for Rimini this last weekend. About 800 of Rimini city’s hotels were open for the first big weekend of 2009′s season, and occupancy rates were between 50-70%. The [...]
Luca Toni features in the Emilia-Romagna PR campaign in Germany
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Luca Toni, born in the town of Pavullo nel Frignano (in the province of Modena) has been recruited, like other famous sports symbols Ferrari and Ducati, by his region Emilia-Romagna to help publicise the region abroad. Toni, who is in his second season at Bayern Monaco, has been recruited specifically to attract German tourists to [...]
Rimini’s new look, by Alessandro Bergonzoni is unveiled
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009It’s where art, tradition, and solid business sense meet – the Rimini manifesto, or advertisement. Each year a different artist is selected to design a poster that goes up in various parts of Italy (and now, of course, also online) to advertise Rimini’s summer season. Past artists have included Rene Gruau (whose work features [...]
Update on the Abruzzo Quake
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009The death toll in the Abruzzo earthquake has sadly risen to 207, with rescue work continuing. Further tremors were felt throughout the day in the Abruzzo region, with a new strong quake(5.2 richter scale) occuring at roughly 8.00pm (GMT +1) this evening. Some smaller quakes were felt in both the Umbria and Marche regions. If [...]
TV ad promoting the Riviera’s amusement parks
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009One of the big attractions of Italy’s adriatic riviera is that it itself lots of attractions all grouped within a small geographical area – and in particular it has an amazing collection of amusement parks, acquariums, and fun fairs all in or nearby Rimini. Realising the value of this, the provincial tourist board have launched [...]
Rimini undamaged by Italian Earthquake
Monday, April 6th, 2009A heavy earthquake has hit in Southern Central Italy, killing up to 90 people as buildings collapsed in the L’Aquila, the regional capital of Abruzzo. We’ve been swamped by mails here at Visit-Rimini.com by people worried about the safety of their loved ones travelling in and around Rimini, and we’re happy to report that though [...]
Rimini Fiera figures up by 12%
Monday, April 6th, 2009Encouraging news from Rimini Fiera, which has just announced figures showing a growth in profits of roughly 13% in the last two years. The massive state of the art trade exhibition centre hosts a variety of famous international trade fairs including Rimini Fitness, Pianeta Birra and others. Every year the fiera hosts up to 40 [...]
Lucio Dalla – another artist inspired by Rimini
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Rimini has long held a special place in the Italian imagination. Since at least the 1960s it has become, perhaps more than any other coastal resort town, the city associated with the summer, with nightlife, with excitement. It’s not surprising then that so many Italian writers, musicians, and film-makers have been drawn to the city [...]
Rimini Polo Cup
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009On the one hand it seems like the most surreal thing you’d ever see – not surprising given that it takes place on the beach within viewing distance of Federico Fellini’s beloved Grand Hotel – while on the other, once the competition is in full swing, it seems perfectly normal to watch thoroughbred horses galloping [...]
Anyone in Rimini taking part in the 4am project
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009Karen Strunk is a freelance photographer who lives in Mosely, Birmingham in the U.K. With a photographers eye she was struck, returning home after a night out, by the beauty of the cityscape at 4.am in the morning. She started taking photos of the city at that time of the night, and started showing them [...]
From April Fools to April Fish
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009It’s that time of year again, when it’s fully acceptable to do your utmost to make your friends/colleagues look ridiculous by playing pranks on them. April Fool’s day is celebrated with just as much vigour in Italy as elsewhere, though the tradition is known as the pesce d’Aprile (April Fish) rather than the english April [...]
