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.

If Miniature Italy after years continues to arouse passion in its many visitors, in Riccione there is a Miniature football that has a lot of succes.

From April 14 to May 4, 2008 the International under 14 Football Tournament Asar Riccione is coming back, at its 36th edition, to animate the green field in Vespucci Street.

Considered one of the most important launching pad for under 14 footballers, the spring competition is organised by Asar Riccione association, in collaboration with the sports assessorship of the town, and sees the most promising players at international level facing.

Kids are young but they yet know how to give the audience strong emotions.

We can already see them performing the same feats of champions: hyperbolic shots, triangular, filtering steps, overlays, diagonal, diving plastic, tunnel. Their performances are less technical but full of grit.
And what about their enthusiasm when they chase the ball and the poetry of their touch?!

In Riccione you will see them running, dribbling, springing forward and saving a difficult shot, right until the last breath and without saving their young energy, because they well know that the opportunity to display their talents is great.

Maybe someone has already in mind a particolar way to celebrate a goal, just like their beloved champions (Pato’s heart, Totti’s dummy, Toni’s airplane)… And who knows if his glance will tenderly wander in the gallery looking for the joyful eyes of his parents, even before for those severe of mister.

We hope that parents, for their part, as well as encouraging children from the terrace, have also inculcated in them the ideals of sportsmanship, fairness and respect for the adversary.

So that sport is lived by these young players in a healthy and clean way, in the football field of Riccione and everywhere their passion will lead them tomorrow.

From 13th to 22nd June 2008 Riccione will be again the great protagonist of best meetings “in the pool” with Young and Master Uisp Italian Championships of Swimming 2008.
Again, because in Riccione they are in fact more and more frequents the sport events of high quality about swimming.
The principal worth is of the splendid Olympic swimming pool with lanes of 50 meters in the Swimming Stadium of the Sport Centre “Italo Nicoletti”.
Among the most modern structures and the most beautiful and effective in Europe, the Swimming Stadium of Riccione it’s very close to the centre of the city and to most of the Hotels, making easy facilitating the access of the people.
For Italian Championships they will come here thousands of swimmers to dispute Young and Master Titles of all specialties.
It will be a pleasure to see this big sport event in the swimming pool of the Stadium of Swimming, that for its olympic characteristics welcome more and more important meetings all around the year.

Inaugurated in 2004 with World Master Championships, the structure the structure got every service of reception, from bar to restaurants, gymnasium, galleries for more than 2.000 spectators and much more.
Among the last events also the Italian Championships of Swimming for lifesaving, during which two new records of the world were recorded.
Besides to the Olympic covered swimming pool with 10 lanes of 50 meters and other pools “on air” from 50 and 25 meters, there is also a pool for dives with springboard at 5, 7,5 and 10 meters.
Also spectators will get the pleasant sensation to be touched by the water of the swimming pool of this new Swimming Stadium.
Who doesn’t get the desire to plunge himself?
Riccione is also now unbeatable to swimming!

It’s for Sunday 18th May 2008’s appointment with 38th Gran Fondo Nove Colli of Cesenatico, event that from many years counts in Romagna thousands of cyclists from all Europe and over. Not only to search the win but also for the only honour to take part of it.

If you’re not trained, better not to start. Its name speaks by itself, and its nine slopes to climb wouldn’t save the legs of an impromptu rider.
Among the Gran Fondo competitive, the Nove Colli it’s with no doubt the one that on Adriatic Coast counts on the major number of starters.

Desire to participate at this event is so high to induce the organizers to set a ceiling of 11.000 starters. Limit that was taken to guarantee the best safety conditions to the participants. The 11.000 adhesions were reached this year with 3 months in advance and officially “closed” on 18th February.

The Nove Colli 2008 is also valuable as fifth stage of Italian Championship Grand Fondo and Medio Fondo of Italian Cyclist Federation and proposes two runs of 200 and 130 kilometres.
Who get desire to pedal, he will enjoy himself.
Departure in the dark at 6.15 a.m. from the Portocanale designed by Leonardo Da Vinci and arrival at Cesenatico.
In the middle, a lot of slopes to climb: Polenta, Pieve of Rivoschio, Ciola, Barbotto, Monte Tiffi, Secchiano, Passo del Grillo and Gorolo, up to 7,5%.

For cogwheels lovers, the Nove Colli presents also an “off road” version: a good occasion to plan a whole week on the Adriatic coast combining sport and sea holiday.
Fascinating Riccione waits for you in this occasion too!