As you walk along the lungomare of Rimini, you’ll see that many of the sidestreets carry the names of films by Rimini’s Maestro Federico Fellini – including Via Amarcord, Via Roma, and the wonderfully suggestive Via le Notti di Cabiria. The street signs are accompanied by the original movie posters, making it worth a stroll [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Rimini’s Changing Street Names
Thursday, August 27th, 2009The Gambalunga Library gets a video guide
Monday, August 24th, 2009There’s an interesting project,over at iGuidez.com run by an Irishman, Michael Phillips, that aims to produce high-quality video-guides for geo-tagged sites of cultural interest. The project has over 600 videos, spread out through Italy, Cuba, Cyprus, Ireland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (it’s aim is to become a global leader), and now Philips has added [...]
Rimini dominates the Italian headlines
Monday, August 24th, 2009It’s that time of year again – August, and the traditional ‘Rimini Meeting’ which sees some of the highest-profile politicians/leaders/thinkers on both the national Italian and International stage come to the Adriatic Riviera capital to speak to large audiences on a wide range of themes. It’s a media bonanza, and so it’s no wonder that [...]
The treasures of the adriatic
Friday, August 21st, 2009Theres’s a great video, produced by Emilia-Romagna turismo, which lets you see some of the wide range of fish found in the Adriatic (one of the reasons you can eat so well in Rimini!). The video, treasures of the adriatic, is – sadly – only in Italian (why, oh why don’t they go that little [...]
Serie A football resumes this weekend
Friday, August 21st, 2009It’s a tired but true observation that to understand Italy and the Italians, you have to at least take a passing look at football and its place in society. Whether you subscribe to the theory that the game was actually invented in Italy – either as calcio fiorentino or the ancient Roman game of Harpastum [...]
The Acts of the Apostles – in Romagnolo!
Thursday, August 20th, 2009For anyone who’s interested in Rimini and local traditions, and speaks/reads Italian, there’s no better place to head to online than www.cristella.it, the site of local blogger, journalist, and publicist Maria Cristina Muccioli (alias Cristella). Her blog is full of great snippets of dialect, stories and traditions that help to remind you how unique a [...]
Escaping the ‘afa’ – head to the beach
Thursday, August 20th, 2009It’s another scorching hot week here in Italy, and with temperatures in and around 37° throughout Emilia-Romagna and northern Italy, one word that you’ll see constantly referred to is ‘afa’. There are lots of different etymological theories relating to the term ‘afa’. One is that it derives from the greek ‘apto’ via the late latin [...]
Learning from the Adriatic Riviera – Winter Olympics city Sochi sends officials to Rimini
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Sochi, The host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics, has sent a team of officials to Rimini to learn the lessons of tourism on the Adriatic riviera. The resort city, on the Black Sea coast of Russia, in the Krasnodar Krai district has been twinned with Rimini since 1977, and as part of the continuing [...]
3d trailer for Avatar, the new James Cameron film, to be shown in Rimini
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009The trailer for James Cameron’s new film, the eagerly awaited science fiction epic Avatar will be debuted this Friday, the 21st of August – and Rimini will be one of the very few places where you’ll be able to see the 3d version, at the IMAX cinema in the Befane shopping complex. Cameron, the Canadian director [...]
Remembering Rimini’s Partisans
Monday, August 17th, 2009Last night hundreds of Riminesi gathered in the beautiful surroundings of the courtyard of the church of San Agostino for an open-air concert in memory of Rimini’s three martyrs, Mario Cappelli, Luigi Nicolò, Adelio Pagliarani, after whom Piazza Tre Martiri is named. On the 16th of August 1944 the three were executed by hanging (they had [...]
German Lotto Tourists Arrive in Rimini
Monday, August 17th, 2009A while back we published a post about the Lotto fever sweeping Italy, as its Superennalotto jackpot had not been won since January. Rimini was the city with the most number of tickets bought for the draw at that time. Since then the jackpot has just grown in size, and now stands at €130 million [...]
Rientro – the Exodus in reverse
Sunday, August 16th, 2009With sore heads after a great Ferragosto party (here in Rimini there was loads going on all night!), many people are already on the roads for the great’rientro‘ – that unhappy moment when Italians start heading back from their coastal or mountain holidays in August back to the city and work. For tourists it’s something [...]
Rimini Mayor officially welcomes guests for Ferragosto
Friday, August 14th, 2009On Friday morning Rimini’s mayor, Alberto Ravaioli, kicked off the celebrations for Italy’s biggest summer holiday weekend, Ferragosto, by publishing an official welcome note to the thousands of holidaymakers who have arrived in the Adriatic Riviera’s capital. “Dear friends, happy Ferragosto and welcome to Rimini. There’s no more beautiful or enjoyable place in the world to [...]
Branding Rimini
Friday, August 14th, 2009Anyone who’s been into Rimini’s tourist office lately can’t help but have been impressed picking up the handy and beautifully designed pocket-sized information booklets. In particular the snazzy logo on the back, which morphs the town’s name into an elegant looking sun-lounger. Now the news coming from the assesore al turismo, the local comune officer [...]
Rimini holds steady as a holiday destination – against the national trend
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009The holiday sector, like all others, is in a downturn at the moment. Italy, one of the world’s most visited countries thanks to its food, culture and climate, has itself suffered a drop of somewhere between 6-7% in visitors this year, leading to fears about job losses in the tourism sector. Rimini, though, bucks the [...]
Ferragosto – an Italian Holiday
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Ferragosto, the 15th of August, is one of Italy’s most important and most cherished holidays. It has its origins in antiquity, and has changed and evolved over the centuries, but as Gianni Di Gregorio’s wonderful film Pranzo di Ferragosto illustrated so powerfully, the Italian who finds him/herself working or away from family on this summer [...]
Jovanotti and Tiziano Ferro for Pio Manzu Conference
Monday, August 10th, 2009The Pio Manzu conference, held each year in Rimini, has announced some of the panellists for this year’s workshops, on the weighty theme of ‘Nomad Power – Values, Illusions, Aspirations of Errant Youth‘. The conference this year has a particularly interesting line-up, given that amongst the collection of high profile sociologists, business leaders, politicians, scientists, [...]
The beach strike is on again – details
Saturday, August 8th, 2009So, it’s been on-off all week, as the lifeguards on the Adriatic riviera threatened strike action for this Saturday (and next saturday, part of the Ferragosto weekend). On thursday a note was issued by the governmental commission which oversees strike action, suggesting that the strike would be called off. A solution had been found. Yesterday, [...]
Obscured by Clouds – the tears of San Lorenzo
Saturday, August 8th, 2009In Romagna, and Italy in general, the night of August the 10th is known as la notte di San Lorenzo, the night where, looking up into the night sky you can see the ‘tears of st. lawrence’, or ‘shooting stars’ depending upon where you are placed on the romantic/mystic axis. The weather forecast this year, [...]
Beach strike for 8th and 16th of August called off
Thursday, August 6th, 2009News just in that the proposed strikes by lifeguards on the 8th and 16th of August have been called off after an intervention by the governmental commission with responsibility for overseeing strike action. A press release from the Commissione di Garanzia dell ’attuazione della legge sullo sciopero announced with little detail that the strike action [...]
