Fifteen kilometers of Adriatic beach, Fellini's hometown, and a 2,000-year-old Roman heart most beach crowds never find.
Riviera Romagnola • Roman Gateway • Fellini's Town
Explore → Get Early Access90 min from Bologna by train
Numbered bagni from Marina Centro south
Beach plus a real old town
Museum and Grand Hotel of his films
Rimini pairs fifteen kilometers of Adriatic beach with a genuine Roman city: a bridge from Tiberius's reign still carrying traffic, Fellini's dreamscapes, and piadina from beach kiosks. Summer machine, year-round soul.
Ariminum was Rome's Adriatic gateway (the Arch of Augustus, 27 BC, is Italy's oldest surviving Roman arch), and in 1843 the first bathing establishment opened, inventing the Riviera Romagnola and, arguably, the Italian beach holiday.
Federico Fellini was born here and put Rimini's fog, sea, and grand hotel into Amarcord: the Grand Hotel is now a national monument, and the Fellini Museum spreads through a castle. The Tiberius Bridge has carried traffic for 2,000 years.
A Roman surgeon's house under glass, and the instruments the fire preserved
The Malatesta fortress, now home to the Fellini Museum
The old town square: medieval palaces, the theatre, the fish market
The car-free seafront park: boardwalk, sport, and the sculptural lights
The town's benchmark gelato, made in Rimini since 1947
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