Wandering around Rimini’s Turquoise beach club, the weekend of the famous Notte Rosa festival this year, you might have spotted a group of lads somersaulting over packing crates on the beachfront. Amidst all this, you might have seen a super-hero float by as well! And all in the name of ‘Parkour’, but what the hell […]
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 […]
The talk elsewhere in the last week has been about the awarding of the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro, and the embarassing failure of the Obama backed Chicago campaign. Elsewhere, because here in Romagna Olympics fans are thinking further down the track – four years further, to be exact, and the competition to […]
Reports appeared in local papers this week that the annual Giro d’Italia, one of the most prestigious cycling competitions in the world, is set to include, for the first time since 1999, a stop in Cesenatico, Â near Rimini – hometown to arguably Italy’s most famous cyclist, the late Marco Pantani (nicknamed il pirata – the […]
It’s a tired but true observation that to understand Italy and the Italians, you have to at least take a passing look at football and its place in society. Whether you subscribe to the theory that the game was actually invented in Italy – either as calcio fiorentino or the ancient Roman game of Harpastum […]
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 […]
Europe’s second largest lottery jackpot looks set to grow as yet again no-one managed to pick the 6 winning numbers in Italy’s SuperEnnalotto prize draw. The draw which happens on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays has been building up to fever-pitch over the summer. The last jackpot win was back in January! Now the prize for […]
It was 25 years ago, this year, that – according to Claudio Fantini – volleyball came out of the indoor sports centres and onto the beach in Italy, via the glamorous beaches of California. Fantini, in fact, is the man who claims to have introduced beach volleyball to Italy – and there are few that […]
The Fiat 500, or Cinquecento as it’s known, is much more than just a car. It’s a piece of history – and one that’s not so dissimilar to Rimini. They are both succesful products of the post-war economic miracle in Italy, they’re both much admired and imitated, and both have gone through peaks and troughs […]
Are you like me, without a clue as to what tchoukball may be? Well, there’s a good way to find out more, by heading down to the internatioal tchoukball beach festival , being held on the beach in Viserba on the 9th and 19th of May. Tchoukball is a relatively knew sport, developed by a […]
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