As I walk through the gate of the 600-year-old Castel Sismondo in Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, I’m enveloped by a muttering voice. No, the voice isn’t my own internal monologue saying, “um, what is this trippy place,” though it does add to that sentiment. Instead, the voice sputters trains of thought in Italian, with notes and scripts from the...

The tour of the Castles of Emilia Romagna will allow you to discover is an Italian region where you can find many fortresses and castles that will allow you to make a wonderful journey through time. You should know that every province in the area has a rich heritage of fortresses, fortifications and ancient noble houses. These testimonies of the pa...

Visit Rimini and discover what to do like a local in the city of the Italian cinema maestro Federico Fellini. With the help of some insider tips, of course! You'll soon realise that it's a continuous discovery. In summer, the famous nightlife that enlivens the clubs and crowded beaches on its endless seafront makes it an irresistible magnet for any...

The renaissance of Rimini. So much for the 80s stink and party remembrance. The legendary town on the Adriatic has quietly given itself a facelift. Italy's next trend destination. The whole story... A full load of glitz and glamour and the darker side of fame. Rimini has experienced everything you can experience as a holiday resort. From an exclusi...

Rimini in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy may not appear regularly on travellers' must-see lists, being on the eastern Adriatic Sea, a far less photogenic coastline to that of the Ligurian Sea to the west, where the crowds gather on the chi-chi Riviera. But Italians love it for wide, placid-water-lapped stretches of sand that are home to a pleth...

Rimini has always been in the heart of the many tourists who, every year, populate the Riviera Romagnola during the summer. Famous throughout Europe for its kilometre-long stretch of sandy beaches, the Romagna city really has a lot to offer for an unforgettable summer holiday. The litorale riminese counts many bathrooms equipped with every comfort...

It can’t be denied—the late Italian film director Federico Fellini certainly enjoyed the finer things in life, and he loved to make movies about those finer things. There was the operatic, tearjerker La Strada (1954), which follows the life of a young girl sold to a circus by her mother, and 8 ½, which blended the line between fantasy and reality w...

Rimini, in the Emilia Romagna region, never ceases to amaze, and even less so does the church of Saint Agostino. The treasure chest of the fourteenth-century Rimini school of painting, where extraordinary cycles of frescoes disappeared for centuries reappeared only after the earthquake of 1916, forcing art historians to rewrite their pages, has rev...

The Adriatic Riviera (the coastal area on the Adriatic Sea near Rimini) as we know it today, was born in the climate of well-being and euphoria that characterized Italy from the end of the Fifties through the beginning of the Sixties, when the middle class generated mass tourism and the summer holiday took on the meaning of “escape” from everyday l...

Italy celebrates Federico Fellini by opening a museum in his honour in the north-eastern city of Rimini where the great Italian film director was born in 1920. The Fellini Museum opens on 19 August, via bookings on its website for holders of the covid Green Pass, with free guided tours on the weekend of 20-22 August from 10.00 to midnight. The muse...