Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Sydney 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 […]
Tags: fellini foundation, fellini prize, sydney lumet
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
For tomorrow, at least, the small but pretty town of Bertinoro – some 52 km from Rimini, up in the hills between Forli and Cesena, becomes holder of that most coveted prize – the most hospitable town in a region, Emilia-Romagna, famed for its hospitality. What gives it the right to claim such a title? […]
Tags: albana wine, bertinoro, galla placida, local festivals, traditions and customs of emilia-romagna
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Perhaps it’s not surprising that few people, up until recently, have heard of the small sovereign (though unrecognised internationally) state of the Isola delle Rose (Rose Island) – or to give it its official title, in esperanto, Insulo de la Rozoj. It’s foundation and eventual destruction – at the hands of Italian military engineers – […]
Tags: adriatic riviera, esperanto, isola delle rose, rimini 1968
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
Theres’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 […]
Tags: adriatic fish, diving in the adriatic, dolphins in the adriatic, paguro, rimini mare, seafood, the adriatic
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
For 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 […]
Tags: rimini blogs, romagnolo dialect
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
It’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 […]
Tags: afa, italian etymology, italian weather terms, summer on the riviera
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Sochi, 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 […]
Tags: rimini - sochi
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
A 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 […]
Tags: bild, german tourists, golden bull of rimini, lottery tourists, superennalotto jackpot
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