San Leo has made official what many people have been saying for years: it has joined the club of ‘I Borghi più Belli d’Italia‘ (the most beautiful small towns of Italy). More appropriate than joined, is perhaps admitted, as this is a small and exclusive list of towns throughout Italy that meet some specific requirements [...]
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San Leo joins the most beautiful small towns of Italy
Sunday, October 4th, 2009European Heritage Days events – Rimini
Saturday, September 26th, 2009All across Europe there are events planned as part of the European Union initiative ‘European Heritage Days’, and Emilia-Romagna is no exception – in fact, as Emilia-Romagna Tourism reports, there are over 200 different events taking place across the region this weekend under the banner of ‘Italy, Treasure of Europe’ Rimini, in particular, has a [...]
Rimini screens world broadcast of ‘The Age of Stupid’
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Rimini is just one of the many cities worldwide that will be linking up with New York this evening to show a special Global Premier screening of the new film The Age of Stupid, directed by Franny Armstrong – whose documentaries include McLibel (credited with helping effect a sea-change of opinion about the American fast-food [...]
When Robert Plant Rocked the Rimini Meeting
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Leafing through the latest edition of monthly Italian music magazine XL, I chanced upon a Rimini story that raised a smile. It dates back to 1993, when ex-Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant was touring to promote his album Fate of Nations (an under-rated album which includes the wonderful 29 Palms, plus guest appearances from Clannad’s Máire [...]
The Leahcim Noskcaj Syndrome
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Leafing through the light-hearted ‘alieni a Rimini‘, a visitor’s guide to Rimini which explains some of the more mysterious traditions and customs of the Romagnolo resort town, I came across the curious but readily identifiable Leahcim Noskcaj syndrome. It’s a syndrome which afflicts up to an estimated 70% of the Rimini population, and is characterised [...]
Romagna Mia – discovering a region through a song
Thursday, September 17th, 2009How many songs can you think of that have linked traditional music – in this case the Liscio of Romagna – with artists and personalities as diverse as Gloria Gaynor, Jovanotti, Laura Pausini and Pope John Paul II? There’s only one, that I know of, and it’s the 1954 classic Romagna Mia by the Secondo [...]
Sydney Lummet to be awarded the 2009 Fellini Prize
Saturday, September 5th, 2009Sydney Lumet becomes the fourth director to receive the Fellini Prize, an annual award presented in Rimini by the Fellini Foundation to both honour the world’s most important film directors, and at the same time comemorate the late great Federico Fellini. Lumet, who started his career as film director back in 1957 (with the classic [...]
The 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Oscar winner proposes new look for Fellini Cinema
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Cinema in Rimini, the birthplace of the late-great Federico Fellini, in terms of the physical buildings used to project films, has undergone much the same dramatic shift as seen in cities across the western world. Local cinemas with individual styles and idiosyncracies have been replaced by the big out-of-town multiplexes – giant anonymous screens where [...]
5 recent great Italian films you may have missed
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Last year’s Cannes film festival spotlighted Italian cinema with two big films in competition, Paolo Sorrentino’s biopic of Giulio Andreotti Il Divo and the international hit adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s crime book Gomorrah . Two great films that have hadsome of the international success they deserve. Every year, though, there are plenty of top-notch Italian films that [...]
Watch out for the Garbino
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Yesterday was a strange day weatherwise here in Rimini. The day started off well, with a relatively blue sky and sunshine. Temperatures hot, but not particularly humid. Classic july weather then. The first sign of trouble comes around lunchtime, when a large family lunch becomes tense (or tenser than usual – to an outsider, a [...]
Go wine tasting on the beach
Thursday, June 11th, 2009One of my favourite events of the summer is taking place tomorrow evening on the Rimini beach front (from #9 through to #28). It’s the P.assagi di Vino event, organised by local wine producers, where you can stroll along the beach and taste some of the very fine wines of the region. There’s nothing like [...]
Federico Fellini’s bookshelves
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Although it’s become almost de rigeur online, through networks like Facebook, to let people know what you’re reading, the practice of examining someone’s bookshelves to try to get a glimpse of their personality has always been popular. Stroll into someone’s house, and on their bookshelves you’ll get an open display of their curiosities, passions, and [...]
A sneak peek at the 25th annual Verucchio Festival
Monday, April 27th, 2009Preparation 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 [...]
