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A Riccione, andavo in villeggiatura quand'ero ginnasiale... Allora, quando, con intima gioia, il gelato lo prendevo tutti i giorni, tutto era piu' assoluto e piu' eterno. Le giornate erano lunghissime, delle entita' dorate di vero valore e di vera durata: il periodo delle vacanze era un periodo della vita... A Riccione ho avuto la mia prima avventuretta... lei era un'allieva ballerina...

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Channeling 2024 will take place in Riccione, a famous Italian seaside resort in the Province of Rimini, Emilia Romagna. The city stretches along the shoreline and has a busy harbor.

Since the 1930s Riccione has been a main destination of summer tourism on the Adriatic Riviera and one of the best known seaside resorts in Northern Italy. After World War II, it was frequented by famous people, such as Pele', Mina, Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio De Sica, and many others.

Every two years, a festival called the Festival Del Sol takes place.

The main streets of Riccione, viale Dante and viale Ceccarini have numerous night spots, bars, and hotels and they are the best place for shopping and eating during the day. The seafront is a long boulevard, shaped by a road and a bicycle lane, that reaches up to the town's end going along the sea.

The meeting venue for the period of September 8-13, the Hotel Corallo is placed in Viale Gramsci 113 - 47838 Riccione, Italia, phone: +39 0541 600807 - info@corallohotel.com -. The conference hall, where all week working sessions will be held, is placed at the hotel.

• How to reach Riccione
• Weather
• Eating in Riccione
• A bit about Riccione
• Ravenna and surroundings

By car: Riccione is on the Adriatic coast, in the south of Emilia Romagna, it can be reached by car via the A14 motorway (Riccione exit). The A14 connects Riccione to the rest of Italy: it is easily reachable from Rome and the south, and also from the north by following the Bologna and Modena motorway interchanges. To see distances, travel costs and traffic conditions in real time, go to: www.autostrade.it

By train: The railway station is downtown and links Riccione to all the other Italian cities. Information are available on Trenitalia website: www.trenitalia.com - or, for the international online timetables, SBB CH railway company 

By plane Three nearby international airports - Federico Fellini in Rimini, Guglielmo Marconi in Bologna, Raffaello Sanzio in Ancona Falconara,  connect Riccione to the most important cities of Italy and Europe.

By taxi: any information about fares on the following website: https://www.taxi.it/riccione/ - phone number:  +39 0541600559

Riccione has a semi-continental climate. Winters are quite cold, while summers are hot and sunny, a little stuffy but tempered by the breeze. Precipitations are equally distributed during the year, even though there is a maximum in autumn.

The best time to visit Riccione is from the beginning of May until the end of September, during this period, you will experience pleasant weather with a nice average temperature and limited rainfall. The highest average temperature in Riccione is 29 C in July and the lowest is 9 C in January. With a water temperature of around 22 C (71.6 F), the sea in Rimini is warm enough for swimming from July to September, while in June it is still a bit cool.
September in Riccione is the time of the velvet season. Italians are returning to the cities, but foreigners are taking their place. Therefore, the resort's beaches are still full of people. The heat is slowly receding, the temperature remains above +20 C, which is quite comfortable, but at night it can be fresh, a sweater will be appropriate.

Romagna people love to eat well, and place great importance on their local food and wine. Emilia Romagna is the region with the largest number of typical products. Restaurants in Riccione are famous for their excellent local cuisine, based on both meat and fish. You will find restaurants throughout the old centre and also by the sea, where you can sample traditional Romagna food and wine at any time of year. Here you can enjoy handmade pasta such as: ravioli, lasagna, strozzapreti (traditional local pasta) and tagliatelle with delicious sauce; wonderful grilled fish or fish soup, rabbit porchetta garnished with minced lard, salt, pepper, garlic, pork belly and fennel.

Rabbit porchetta is usually cooked following the recipe of ‘porchetta’, but there are also other ways, like cooking it in a casserole or simmered with Superior Sangiovese PDO red wine.

But the undisputed star and the most classical food is Piada also called piadina, a thin flatbread. Fragrant and genuine, only few elements are needed to prepare it: flour, salt, water, and lard.  The best way to enjoy this food is to eat it with Squacquerone di Romagna PDO cheese, a fresh creamy local cheese, or with cold cuts (we recommend you to choose Mora cold cuts, which are made from the meat of a local dark little pig) and stewed vegetables.

The inland area produces excellent extra-virgin olive oil, tasty salamis and typical local wines such as Sangiovese, Trebbiano and Albana or Cagnina.

Viale Ceccariniis the hearth of the town, it leads from the railway station to the sea with fashion boutiques and brand stores, and a vast range of cafes and restaurants. It ends to the pedestrian sea promenade furnished with fountains, flower beds and wooden benches.

Liberty Style villas speak about the history of the town: Villa Mussolini on the seafront, Villa Franceschi (seat of the Modern Art Gallery), and other beautiful examples of Art Nouveau architecture situated downtown.

The tourist information center is located inside Palazzo del Turismo, the building dates back to 1938 when it opened as the first place on the Adriatic coast dedicated to tourism advertising.

The harbour is a special place for enjoying the sea at sunset or at dawn, seated in a cafe or in a fish restaurant, or simply on a bench.

Going upward from the seafront along viale Ceccarini you'll find: the theatre Spazio Tondelli, the green oasis of the Cicchetti Arboretum, the old borough of Riccione Paese with small shops, the public library and the museum both located inside the Centro culturale della Paesa.  

Up on the hill you can visit the Agolanti Castle built between 1324 and 1343 by the Agolanti Family.

Ravenna in the northern Italian province of Emilia Romagna, is a small town, you can easily walk everywhere, it has a very relaxed provincial atmosphere, yet it is full of restaurants and interesting places to visit. It is a famous Italian tourist destination mainly for two reasons: the tomb of Dante and the byzantine mosaics but there’s definitely more.

Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire for a very short time, during its fall, and then it was conquered by the barbarians. Then, in AD 540, the Byzantine emperor Justinian turned Ravenna into the westernmost pillar of the Byzantine Empire..

This is why there are so many churches and buildings with the most beautiful mosaics. Eight of Ravenna’s Christian buildings from the Ostrogoth period, featuring Roman and Byzantine mosaics, are a Unesco Heritage Site. The most important of them are: the Basilica di San Vitale, the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, the Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo and the Basilica di Sant’Apollinare in Classe but all eight of them are definitely worth seeing.

In addition, Ravenna preserves the remains of the Father of the Italian Language Dante Alighieri, and keeps his memory alive throughout the year with important dedicated events.

The art of eating well in Ravenna has strong roots that sink into the typical peasant knowledge of Romagna: simple and genuine products draw on local and traditional flavours and smells, conquering even the most difficult palates.Piadina, cappelletti al ragù, passatelli in broth and caramelized figs with Squacquerone cheese are some of the typical dishes of the city. And don't forget a good glass of Sangiovese Superiore. Piadina is a very thin flatbread prepared in Romagna (the area that includes the provinces of Rimini, Ravenna, Forlì, and Cesena) since the Middle Ages. The original recipe requires white flour, lard, salt, and water but there are vegan options too. It is normally served stuffed with just about any ingredient but the most traditional one is with squacquerone (a fresh and easily spread cow cheese) and rucola.

The territory surrounding Ravenna offers many possibilities made of beautiful landscapes, a rich artistic and cultural heritage, history and tradition. Everywhere you go, it’s hard not to find unique realities. In the hinterland, among the towns nestled on the hills of Romagna, one above the others stands out: it’s Brisighella, acknowledged as one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. From Brisighella, proceeding south towards the countryside is Faenza with its refined art of ceramics, and then Lugo and Bagnacavallo. Northwards, crossing some of the most beautiful wet areas of the Po Delta Park, you can reach instead the extraordinary town of Comacchio. South of Ravenna, on the other hand, the attention goes to Cervia, famous for its hospitality and its salt pans. But remember to stop in Mirabilandia, one of Italy's largest amusement parks, a meeting point for families and youngsters. Just on the other side of the street, moreover, is the zoological park Safari Ravenna, a zero-impact natural area where you can see and study animals up close.