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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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The 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 […]
Tags: imax, rimini befane, rimini cinema
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Last 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 […]
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Ferragosto, 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 […]
Tags: ancient festivals, ferragosto, ferragosto at rimini, italian folklore, italian holidays, pranzo di ferragosto, vittorio gassman
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Cinema 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 Local cinemas with individual styles and idiosyncracies have been replaced by the big out-of-town multiplexes – giant anonymous screens where […]
Tags: amarcord, corso d'augusto, dante ferretti, federico fellini, fulgor cinema, rimini cinema, rimini film
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Last 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 […]
Tags: Carlo Verdone, Da Dieci a Zero, Ferzan Özpetek, films in rimini, Gianni Di Gregorio, italian films, luciano ligabue, Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Venice International Film Festival
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Yesterday 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 […]
Tags: garbino, rimini traditions, rimini weather
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
One 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 […]
Tags: pagadebit wine, rimini gastronomic tradition, rimini wines, sangiovese wine, strada dei vini, trebbiano wine, wine tasting
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
It’s going to be a great summer for music in Rimini, with a whole range of Italian and International artists announcing concerts in the Riviera between June and September. Perhaps the most exciting news is that Morrisey – who is a festival headliner in Italy – will be performing the only Italian shows of his […]
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