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The Ice Cream Olympics!

Friday, September 5th, 2014

The Gelato World Tour – described as the Ice Cream Olympics, returns for its grand finale to Rimini this weekend! The competition, promoted by Carpigiani and SIGEP, set off around the world with heats in Australia, Dubai, Italy, the US, Spain and Germany to pick 24 finalists to discover the best artisan ice-cream maker for […]

Rimini preferred seaside resort for most Italians

Monday, July 14th, 2014

The travel site Trivago routinely publishes stats from its user base, to give an idea of trends and popularity of resorts. In its latest set of data it confirms that Rimini is the number one seaside resort chosen, for july and august, by visitors from 10 out of 17 regions in Italy. Italians from Abruzzo, […]

An Eataly for Rimini?

Friday, June 27th, 2014

Oscar Farinetti, the President and founder of the massively succesful slow-food sponsored Eataly food stores, has suggested that he’ll be opening an Eataly in Rimini in the near future. Talking to journalists during a recent stay, where he sampled the delights on offer at the very succesful Al Mení festival, Farinetti declared “For some time […]

Valentino Rossi presents the official 2014 San Marino & Riviera di Rimini Moto GP poster

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014

#MotoGP @ValeYellow46 Rossi presents poster for the 2014 GP di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini pic.twitter.com/HZ7YHy7t2Z — MotoGPâ„¢ (@MotoGP) June 13, 2014

RiminiWellness 2014 Kicks off 30th May

Friday, May 30th, 2014

The 9th edition of the huge RiminiWellness event kicks off on may 30th through to June 2nd at Rimini Fiera. This annual event attracts visitors from all over the world, both professionals involved in the wellness and physical activity business, and the general public. The event is packed with exhibitors showing off the latest in […]

San Leo joins the most beautiful small towns of Italy

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

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 […]

European Heritage Days events – Rimini

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

All 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, 2009

Rimini 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 […]

Rimini dominates the Italian headlines

Monday, August 24th, 2009

It’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 […]

Learning from the Adriatic Riviera – Winter Olympics city Sochi sends officials to Rimini

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 […]