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.