As if you needed proof that eating spinach is good for you, Popeye – the world-famous cartoon character who’s better known in Italian as braccio di ferro (literally iron arm) – celebrates his 80th birthday this year, and as part of the festivities there’ll be a special show dedicated to the character today at Rimini’s [...]
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Popeye celebrates his birthday in Rimini
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Over 2 million estimated at this year’s Notte Rosa
Monday, July 6th, 2009Rimini returns to normal, or at least as ‘normal’ as it gets during the summer (where there are festivals and events planned from June through to September), after Saturday night’s Notte Rosa festival – and some of the statistics are coming in about the night. An incredible 2 million people (according to the Resto del [...]
Rimini gets the blue flag – again
Friday, May 15th, 2009For the eigth year running Rimini has been awarded the blue flag. The blue flag is a mark awarded by the Foundation for Environmental Education, to recognise various elements including cleanliness of beaches, quality of bathing water etc. The award was initially a French initiative, born in 1985, to single out beaches and bathing spots [...]
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 [...]
