Mare d’Italia

Rimini is on the Adiratic Coast, about 200 miles south of Venice, 70 miles south-east of Bologna, and 30 miles south of Ravenna

By Car: from Bologna or Cesena, take highway A-14 or SS9 (Emily Way) heading south towards Ancona. From Ravenna or other beach towns go south on SS 16 (Adriatic highway). Rimini is a major touristic destination on the Adriatic, so there are easy to follow signs in all towns of Romagna and beyond.
By Bus: buses connect Rimini to Ravenna, Cesena and other towns of Romagna. During summer, there are weekly or daily buses to Rimini from major Italian and European cities. Not that we recommend it, but you can hop on a bus in Varsaw, Poland, and get off in Rimini, in front of the beach.
By Train: the railway line goes from Bologna to Rimini and Ancona, there are hourly trains from Bologna and Milan or from Ancona. Trains from/to Bologna usually stops also in Forli, Cesena and Faenza.
By Air: Rimini has a small airport (code RMI) with daily flights to Milan, London and Eastern Europe. Some airlines do not offer travel during the low season (winter).

The most typical excursion from Rimini is San Marino: Europe’s oldest and tiniest republic, it is 20 miles south-west of Rimini and well connected to the city. No visa or passport required. You can find more information about San Marino on this site, here

.There are notable hill towns a few miles inland from Rimini: Verucchio, Gradara, San Giovanni in Marignano, all a short car ride from Rimini. Gradara has a beautiful castle built in the 1200s.

Santarcangelo di Romagna lies about 10 miles north-west, on the Emily Way, and it’s a traditional small Romagna town. The ancient fortress built on top of its hill, the modern town at its feet, where public parking is available, and a good walk to reach the clock tower visible from far away. A few great hostarias offer delicious local food and wines. The most typical product from Santarcangelo are hand-stamped linens. You can visit the ancient Marchi studio where they are still traditionally made. Other workshops still remain in operation throughout Romagna, in other small towns.

Rimini is an old coast town built and fortified by the early Roman emperors, their works still enduring time and marking the city: the stone Tiberius bridge across the river and the arch of Augustus that ideally separates the old town from the modern developments

During the middle of the nineteenth century, the practice of sea baths started, and many people, mostly young and liberal, were going to Rimini from other parts of Italy and from other countries

Shortly after, the first cabanas and beach establishments were built, and changed forever the face and destiny of Rimini.

Nowadays, Rimini is a symbol of beach vacations and entertainment for most Italians and Europeans.

 

The second largest town in Romagna (with a population of about 125,000 people), Rimini is also an important economic hub for the area, a market and a meeting point for farmers, artisans, especially shoe-makers, and other industries.

Situated at the end of the Emily Way, the town is close to beautiful hills where old castles and a whole different small nation (San Marino) are built.

 

In Romagna, when people think nightlife, they think Rimini. While most of the locals don’t actually go there very often, it is like the hub of nightlife, comparable to what Hollywood Boulevard is in L.A.. All that you can find in smaller beach communities, the restaurants, the bars, the arcades, the pubs, the shops, is multiplied by the size of Rimini’s beach walk and by its fame and popularity. Long traffic lines in summer weekend nights are common, when people from all over Italy and beyond flock to town.

The neighborhoods and villages at north and south ends of the center (Marina Centro) are more like the smaller beach communities of Romagna, more family oriented and quiet. The central beachfront boulevard (Lungomare Augusto) and its parallel street one block inland (Viale Vespucci) is a burgeoning area with countless pubs, arcades, restaurants, disco-pubs and bars. Some are open all night long, some open at dawn, so you can actually party 24 hours a day. Despite all that, it is almost always a safe area and plain fun.

Most Rimini’s discoes are on the hills west of the town, so you need some transportation from the beach areas. Some discoes offer shuttle service, and there’s the Blue Line: a double-decker free bus connecting several discoes to the main water front area.

 

Rimini’s Town Hall, circa 1400.

Tiberius Bridge, the beginning of the Emily Way

Augustus Arch

The Malatestan Temple

Fountain of the four horses on the beach front

The monumental Grand Hotel of Rimini

Entrance to Rimini’s beach

Kids playing soccer on the sandy beach

Intense bocce ball playing on the beach.