On the Adriatic Coast and in Riccione in particular, the opportunities to practise a sport activity directly on the beach are innumerable indeed.

You go from the most traditional summer and aquatic sports as the surf or the swimming to the sail, from gym to beach volley, from dance to beach soccer.

With sport, Riccione forms a binomial by now inseparable that with its beaches make of it the ideal place where to find relax and the good physical form.

Here everybody will found the most proper sport for his own characteristics.

To the tradition, the hotel keeper of Riccione combine in fact for a long time the innovation in to offer more and more qualified services to the visitor both for sporting professionals that dilettantes.

Choose among the so many sports that more proper for your nature, between schools of sail and windsurf, water-ski or motors, canoe and scuba diver, gym on the beach or the large area of team sports in beach-version with beach volley, beach soccer, beach basket, beach tennis up to more innovative beach & nordic walking.

It is indeed for all tastes.

To not to forget the more traditional among the “beach games” like the “game of bottles”…

In Riccione you find all that you desire for a holiday in the sign of the sport and the comfort.

And if you are a total sportsman, besides the beach you can delight in your preferred sport also in the many sport centres in the city, more offer respect to just big list of activities directly on the beach.

Riccione is really the capital of the sport on the Adriatic Coast!

Choose it for your holiday based on fitness and wellness: you will earn there in fun and health, and you will want to come back with friends and family each time you can grant yourself some days of relax!

Since from many years, Riccione has become the true country of the cyclists.

The Green Pearl of Adriatic coast is in fact the first town to specialize - since the first ’90s - in welcome cycling lovers.

The Bike Hotels have been in fact the precursors in this specialization of the hotel activity.

Their entrepreneurial line has allowed proposing custom offers just purposed for the cyclists and their demands.

Both about spaces and facilities devoted to them and their bicycles that also about feeding, with a restaurant service careful to the diet that cyclists need.

Here are rooms devoted to bicycle or rich breakfasts with carbohydrates and proteins, proper both for brief trainings and longer.

To complete the offer, the rich proposal of the town of Riccione about cycling routes to make sport and discover the territory on bike.

Riccione hinterland is divided in three different areas of runs: the north zone with runs from Rimini to Cesena, the centre zone with runs from Riccione to the San Marin Republic and the south zone with runs between Riccione and Marche.

Each run got road signals devoted to cyclists to help them to follow the right direction of the same run.

Welcomed by Bike Hotels, each cyclist will found the most proper run to discover the territory of Riccione.

Breakfast is known is held more and more by the experienced nutritionists the most important meal of the all day.

With the breakfast we get in fact the important nourishing necessary to face to the best the first part of our days more and denser of appointments.

Here therefore because it is extremely important to take it - and absolutely wrong to skip it - and in the best way as possible.

A good day begins in fact from a good breakfast, in which we have to include all the most important nourishing elements, first of all carbohydrates but also proteins, mineral salts and vitamins.

With the breakfast we give back energy to our body after the break of the nighttimes rest.

The most proper foods for this first meal of the day are in fact first of all carbohydrates (main “gasoline” of fast use for our organism) like those contained in bread, biscuits and cereals, but also proteins (in milk, yogurt etc…), mineral salts and vitamins from fruits and fruit-juices, and in small doses also fats, never to eliminate from our feeding.

And if the rule of a healthy breakfast is worth for everybody, its importance is absolute for the children but also for the sportsmen, that will have to draw from it the nourishing more proper for their activity.

In Riccione, hotel hospitality is also specialized in to offer a healthy breakfast and to the children and sportsmen demands.

In our hotels‘ breakfast-buffet you’ll found in fact a vast range of products among the healthiest for a good start of day with particular attention to the local biological products and tables rich in fruit, cereals, cakes, yogurt and milk very genuine.

To start the day the best way and to do “the full” of energy and vitamins - essential before a day of sun - taste the healthy breakfast in the hotels of Riccione.

Positive effects of the sun on our organism are known for a long time.

The heat of its rays is in fact a panacea for our body, for which the sun is essential to assure the correct operation of important vital functions.

The benefits brought by the sun overcome in fact abundantly the harmful aspects that they is easily able besides to implore following some simple shrewdness like for example don’t stay on the sun in the warmest hours or to protect ourselves with solar filters and creams.

Wrong instead not to take advantage of his so many healthy characteristics. Some example?

Meanwhile, not by chance without the light and the heat of its rays there would be no life on our planet for whose existence represents therefore the primary condition.

Equally, the sun presides to the correct operation of our organism.

When we grant us a “bath of sun” we give in fact great energy to immuniser system, we fight the symptoms and the rheumatic illnesses and we strengthen the bones since its rays help to fix in them the Calcium.

Only in presence of the sun, in fact, our body correctly activates vitamin D necessary for the correct absorption of the mineral more important for our bones.

Aspect not to be underestimated, gives besides, also a lash to our humour being the sun an important factor for the production of serotonin and endorphins, the famous hormones and neurotransmitters of pleasure.

Finally we also assume a beautiful shade to do envy to maniacs of tintarella, always second in comparison to the shades of a beautiful natural tan.

If then to the so many virtues of the sun we combine those of the sea - like iodine or sea aerosol for example - the game is made.

A week of sun and sea will make you revive.

Riccione waits for you to give you some healthy baths of sun without side effects because, like in every thing, the important is simply not to exaggerate!

The Sun Festival of Riccione is coming back from June 29 to July 4, 2008.

International event, one every two years, aimed at athletes of all ages, levels and specialties, the fair of free gymnastic in groups is coming to its 9th edition.

The athletes taking part in the Sun Festival come from every corner of the world and, with their fund of linguistic, physiognomic, stylistic and cultural diversity, they speak the common language of gestural expressivity.

They will bring in Riccione the skill and the harmony of their bodies, the vitality and the desire to perform and to stay together beyond the differences and the competitions.

Animated by the uncontrollable desire of moving and of getting worked up through physical exercise (aerobics, dance, artistic, rhythmic, experimental gymnastics…) they will transform the Green Pearl of the Adriatic in the largest gym in the world.

The rich programme of the Sun Festival opens with the parade of athletes that from the centre of Riccione will reach Piazzale Roma for the big inaugural gala.

Then the more or less young and more or less technical gymnasts will to set up, with passion and enthusiasm, seven evenings of demonstration-show.

All engaged in training in the morning, each group will present two athletic performances with musical accompaniment on the equipped and suggestive stages of the two arenas on the seafront.

The public will reward them with warm and endless applause and the city will thank them with parties and special events on the more trendy clubs and on the theme parks in the Riviera. On July 4 the closing gala in the square will say goodbye to them precisely with the intensity of solar explosions.

While the Green Pearl of the Adriatic  is launching the slogan “Gymnasts worldwide let us unite!” and is preparing itself  to become “the world gym”, our hotels, with their comfortable surroundings and the friendliness of the staff, are ready to welcome the protagonists of the event and all the tourists that with the Sun Festival of Riccione will live one week of early summer in an unique way.