Events May 2011

events 2011 on the Riviera of Rimini

May

Events 2011 on the Riviera of Rimini

May 29.04 − 01.05.2011 Bellaria Igea Marina piazza del Popolo Il Pinzimonio. The colours and flavours of tradition Days dedicated to food and wine to rediscover the colours and flavours of our local products. With food stands serving local specialities, entertainment and music.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 343808 www.comune.bellaria−igea−marina.rn.it 29.04 − 02.05.2011 Coriano San Patrignano, via San Patrignano 53 Squisito! Chefs, products, recipes, wines.

An Italian itinerary 8th edition: Simply Quality. For four full days, courses on the culture and economics of food and eating, great chefs ready to reveal the secrets of their cuisine, the best products of Italian gastronomy, the most innovative and curious food experiences and itineraries, accompanied by top wines from every Italian region, meet the a public of enthusiasts and specialists from the food and catering sectors.

A delicious journey that raises awareness of small top−quality productions that need to be supported and processing techniques that need to be rediscovered proposed by the Slow Food presidia, whilst the stands in the Artisan Village offer an overview of the best artisan producers of Italian food and a selection of curious specialities and in the Street Food Route visitors can sample delicacies and buy them.

For those who enjoy drinking well, a visit to the Vineyards Bottled section is a must and offers a packed programme of tastings, seminars and opportunities for discussion and debate with some of the leading Italian producers.

Open: Friday 3.00 pm − 11.00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am − 11.00 pm, Monday 10.00 am − 6.00 pm.

Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 362111 www.squisito.org squisito@sanpatrignano.org 01.05.2011 Casteldelci in Giardiniera Feast of 1st May A traditional appointment with what was once a livestock and mountain produce market. Today it

features a meeting of horse riders that come here from all over central Italy. There’s an opportunity to take fascinating horse rides that end with the Western Festival in Rimembranze Park. Food stands offer visitors the chance to try typical products and local recipes.

Open: 7.00 am − 6.00 pm Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 915423 www.comune.casteldelci.pu.it 01.05.2011 Saludecio Village of Cerreto Cerreto Carnival The event commemorates the Carnival festivals traditionally held in Cerreto Castle (an outlying village of Saludecio) during Lent. This is a country−style Carnival with floats that recall grotesque local stories. With food stands and folk music.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 869701 www.comunesaludecio.it 04 − 10.05.2011 Rimini 105 Stadium, piazzale Pasolini 1.c Under−14 Fencing Grand Prix Italian Championship for under−14s from all over the country. Around 3,200 athletes will take part in the disciplines of foil, sabre and épee, giving life to what will undoubtedly be thrilling matches.

Open: 8.45 am.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 782371 www.stadiumrimini.net 06.05.2011 Rimini Novelli Theatre, via Cappellini 3 Concert by Davide Van De Sfroos Davide Van De Sfroos finished in the top six at the Festival of Sanremo 2011 with “Yanez”, a song in laghée dialect (Lombard) about Malaysian pirates enjoying their retirement on the Riviera of Romagna. Originally from Monza, thanks to this song the singer managed to stand out and was one of the favourites for victory on the final evening.

The musician is also artistic director of the “Gioventù Ribelle” project, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Youth to celebrate the Unity of Italy. It is a theatre and music tour that celebrates the feats of the young people who brought about the unification of Italy.

Open: 9.00 pm Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 704292 www.teatroermetenovelli.it biglietteriateatro@comune.rimini.it

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06 − 08.05.2011 Misano Adriatico Misano World Circuit race track, via Daijiro Kato, 10 Porsche Tricolour Shield An automobile race. A great show is guaranteed by the institution of specialist trophies like the Cayman Cup, reserved for Porsche Cayman cars, the GT Open Cup, a series of endurance races that has enjoyed considerable success over recent years and Formula Club, an amateur trophy that gives Porsche owners and enthusiasts the opportunity, for the first time, to try out their road vehicles on a race track in total safety.

Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 618511 www.misanocircuit.com infomisano@misanocircuit.com 06 − 08.05.2011 San Leo centre Loving Italy An initiative promoted by Legambiente, an Italian environmentalist group, to raise awareness of the quality products of our land: typical produce, traditions, flavours and culture, landscape and biodiversity, artistic heritage and new technologies. With visits to companies on the territory, exhibitions, tasting and sale of local products and guided visits to the old town centre including religious areas, municipal tower and fortress.

Free entrance.

Info: 800 553800 www.san−leo.it 07.05.2011 Santarcangelo di Romagna Supercinema Theatre via Marconi, 1 Crossroads 2011. Santarcangelo in jazz Now celebrating its 12th edition, this itinerant jazz music festival is a stimulating musical journey through the many and varied souls of contemporary jazz, taking into due account some important historical experiences of this music genre.

Uri Caine Solitaire with Uri Caine at the piano.

Open: 9.15 pm.

Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 356281 www.crossroads−it.org/eventi.htm 07 − 08.05.2011 Rimini Viserba, beach from bathing establishment 24 to 35, Rico's Cafè, Playa Tamarindo, Marina Grande Beach Tchoukball International Festival An international event in which the players of this emerging sport, similar to handball (the court is the same size and there are 9 players per side),

challenge each other. The formula of the festival best reflects the values of the Tchoukball Charter where competition, always real and spectacular, comes more from the desire to play and have fun than the desire to win. The festival has now become the most famous and largest beach tchoukball event in the world.

Info: +39 0541 738115 www.riminiturismo.it beach@tchoukball.it 08.05.2011 Mondaino Istituto Comprensivo, via Fonte Leali Latinus Ludus A national Latin competition for high schools.

23rd edition of this event that the town organizes in honour of Mondaino−born Sebastiano Sanchini, tutor of Giacomo Leopardi. The prize−giving ceremony (Certamen Comicum) will be held on 5 June.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 981674 www.latinusludus.it info@latinusludus.org 08.05.2011 Pennabilli Green Market An appointment with exhibitors from all over Romagna and the Marche who set up their colourful flowerbeds in the central square and nearby streets.

Annual and perennial indoor and outdoor plants, for orchards or terraces, transform the town into a lush exhibition of Italian and overseas nursery production.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 928659 www.pennabilliturismo.it 08.05.2011 Saludecio old town centre 49th Festival of Roast Sucking Pork and typical products A village festival that sees the streets of the town transformed into an authentic “gastronomic itinerary” dotted with a vast assortment of stalls where roast sucking pork rules over a court of equally delicious local specialities. Visitors can also visit the colourful street market packed with crafts, plants, fancy goods and clothing. In the morning, arrival of the procession from Tavullia: a tradition that has been renewed since the mid−nineteenth century as an exchange of favours between neighbouring parishes, one in Romagna and the other in the Marche. With music, food and wine.

Open: 9.30 am − 9.30 pm.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 869701 www.comunesaludecio.it

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08.05.2011 Torriana old town centre Asparagus Fair A festival organized by the Pro Loco Association of Torriana−Montebello to celebrate this tasty spring vegetable. Street market selling local produce such as asparagus, broad beans and peas. Games and food stands with local specialities.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 675207 www.prolocotorriana.it 12 − 15.05.2011 Rimini Rimini Exhibition Centre, via Emilia 155 Thermalia. Thermal Tourism Exhibition Held at the same time as RiminiWellness, this is a new event that centres on the tourism offer of Italian and European spa centres as well as everything that revolves around the world of thermal wellness: treatments, beauty products and thermal cosmetics. The part dedicated to professionals presents the “Thermal Tourism Exchange” targets select and specialist tour operators. Also dedicated to those in the business is the scientific programme with seminars and workshops that study the most recent themes and trends in the sector and the new thermal tourism scenario. In the part open to the general public, it is possible to visit the exhibition and directly test out the wellness treatments offered by the stands representing the various participating thermal spas.

Open: 9.30 am − 7.00 pm.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 744111 www.thermalia.it 12 − 15.05.2011 Rimini Rimini Exhibition Centre, via Emilia 155 RiminiWellness Fitness, wellness and sport on stage for all fitness and wellness enthusiasts: operators and visitors are invited to take part in 4 days jam packed with events inside and outside the exhibition centre.

The formula is the same as that already consolidated in previous editions, divided into Pro and Fun events to guarantee continuity and progress.

Open: 9.30 am − 7.00 pm.

Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 744111 www.riminiwellness.it riminiwellness@riminifiera.it 13 − 15.05.2011 Misano Adriatico Misano World Circuit race track, via Daijiro Kato, 10 Motorbike Speed Italian Cup Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 618511 www.misanocircuit.com info@mototemporada.it 13 − 15.05.2011 Riccione Federal Squash Centre, via Forlimpopoli Italian Individual Absolute Squash Championships Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 790894 www.sportariccione.it 14 − 15.05.2011 Montefiore Conca centre CiocoRocca: A village worth eating Street markets, music, shows and… confectionery served outdoors for two days.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 980035 www.comune.montefiore−conca.rn.it 14 − 15.05.2011 Santarcangelo di Romagna centre Balconies in Bloom A gardening competition in which the leading role is played by the flowers that transform the streets and squares of the centre into a huge garden filled with stalls, refreshment points, confectionery and shows, exhibitions, cultural initiatives, competitions and animation.

Open: 8.00 am − 8.00 pm.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 624270 www.iatsantarcangelo.com 19 − 22.05.2011 Bellaria Igea Marina Igea Marina, Beky Bay beach area, viale Pinzon City of Bellaria Igea Marina National Meeting.

Sand volley 4x4 18th edition of this spring men’s and women’s beach volleyball event traditionally held every spring.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 343808 www.kiklosprogettobeach.it 20 − 22.05.2011 Bellaria Igea Marina Borgata Vecchia The Dancing Village 19th edition: the roots of popular music. Meetings, exhibitions on traditional cultures, musicians and storytellers move around the streets and courtyards, transformed into inns where local families cook traditional dishes.

Open: 3.00 pm − midnight.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 343746−7 www.comune.bellaria−igea−marina.rn.it

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20 − 22.05.2011 Misano Adriatico Misano World Circuit race track, via Daijiro Kato, 10 Truck Racing Championship Truck Drivers’ Weekend. A unique event in Italy that groups together three events: an exhibition of trucks, with some of the world’s leading producers, a rally of decorated trucks and spectacular European Truck Championship races.

Entrance fee payable.

Info: +39 0541 618511 www.misanocircuit.com infomisano@misanocircuit.com 22.05.2011 Gemmano piazza Roma Gemmano & Flavours A food product market and fair. 4th Sunday of May, June and July.

The market offers typical and traditional local products such as olive oil, cheese, cold cuts, traditional cakes, bread and bakery products and preserved products (honey, mushrooms and vegetables). A prize, called “Gemmano Quality” is also awarded for the “quality and uniqueness” of typical products of the municipality and the Union of the Conca Valley.

Open: 9.00 am − 6.00 pm.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 854060 www.comune.gemmano.rn.it 25 − 30.05.2011 Cattolica, Saludecio, San Giovanni in Marignano various venues International Summer School: Mediterranean The Baltic and the Mediterranean. A cultural bridge between north and south Europe.

The 5th edition of the “Mediterranean” International Summer School of the University of Bologna intends to build a cultural bridge between “Mediterraneans” and rediscover, with the help of history, the historical, cultural and trade relations between northern territories and Italy, in particular, Venice and the coastal regions of the Adriatic.

The itinerant school is hosted in Cattolica (25−26 May), Saludecio (27 May), San Giovanni in Marignano (28 May), Gabicce Mare (29 May) and Pesaro (30 May) and offers the opportunity to combine study sessions, held by university professors and experts in various disciplinary fields, with excursions on the territory, guided visits to exhibitions and key sites, museum exhibitions and eco−museums and participation in events aimed at raising awareness of local food and wine, in order to optimize the educational offer, promote the towns involved and at the same time, open new doors for tourism.

The 2011 edition is particularly important because during the last two days (29 and 30 May) it will welcome the XVII Forum of the Association of Mediterranean Maritime Museums that will help raise awareness regarding museum realities and ongoing research projects with speeches by representatives on “The Immaterial Heritage of the Culture of the Sea”.

Participation subject to registration.

Info: +39 0541 966607 www.cattolica.net 27 − 28.05.2011 San Leo Pietracuta Cherry Festival Open: 9.00 am.

Free entrance.

Info: 800 553800 www.san−leo.it 27 − 29.05.2011 Coriano San Patrignano, via San Patrignano, 53 16th Vincenzo Muccioli Memorial National football tournament for beginners.

Competition with eight teams participating, dedicated to the memory of the founder of the rehabilitation centre. The participating teams are Cesena − Chievo − Genoa − Inter − Juventus − Napoli − Sampdoria and San Marino.

Times: Friday and Sunday 10.00−12.00 am; Saturday 10.00−12.00 am and 3.00−6.00 pm. Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 362111 www.sanpatrignano.org events@sanpatrignano.org 27 − 29.05.2011 Riccione Villa Mussolini − lugomare Repubblica Villa Lodi Fè gardens Villas of Flavours. A delicious weekend Tastings, market, courses, meetings and shows.

Villas of Flavours is a great event dedicated to those who love good food and “drinking well”, with the best regional producers.

The event begins on the evening of Friday 27 May at 6.00 pm in Villa Mussolini where a “Ri.wine” area will be set up for tasting, with a selection of wine cellars from Emilia−Romagna close to the sea. A preview that will give way to the “Villas of Flavours” weekend.

On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May the event will be concentrated in the splendid gardens of Villa Lodi Fè, a historical 20th−century residential building. It will host the “Village of Flavours” market with the best producers from Emilia−Romagna: wine cellars, farms, vinegar producers, mills, cheese makers, honey, cold cuts and much more besides. A real paradise for gourmets. Visitors will have the chance to meet page

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and talk to producers, taste produce and purchase products directly.

Open to the public: - Villas of Flavours preview event − Ri.wine area, Villa Mussolini Friday 27 May from 6.00 pm − 11.00 pm (free entrance − glass and tasting of 3 wines 10 euro) - Village of Flavours − Market, Villa Lodi Fè Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 May from 10.00 am to 10.30 pm (entrance 3 euro − entrance plus glass and tasting of 3 wines 10 euro − free entrance for children under 16) Info: +39 0541 693302 www.riccione.it 28.05 − 04.06.2011 Rimini Rimini Exhibition Centre, via Emilia, 155 SportDance. Italian Sports Dancing Championships and Italian Internationals One of the most popular and spectacular competitive events in Italian sport. Nine days of

exciting competitions that are as thrilling for the athletes as for the spectators who watch performances in all sports dancing disciplines.

Free entrance.

Info: +39 0541 744111 www.federdanza.it info@fids.it 29.05.2011 Pennabilli Miratoio 26th St. George’s Mushroom Festival Near the Sasso Simone and Simoncello Park this event is dedicated to the “prugnolo” or “St. George’s mushroom” with food stands serving tagliatelle and other typical dishes prepared using this tasty mushroom. Games with prizes, exhibitions, animation, music and guided visits to the caves of Miratoio in the afternoon.

Free entrance.

Info: 333 5766309 www.sagradelprugnolo.org

realized by the Provincia di Rimini Assessorato al Turismo (Tourist Office of the Province of Rimini) tel. 0541.716371 - 380 www.riviera.rimini.it turismo@provincia.rimini.it

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