If a walk in the green is for you a therapy for the soul, in the hinterland of Riccione you will reach the peace of senses.

The Oasis of Montebello, the River Park of Marano, the Natural Reserve of Onferno, the Arboreto of Mondaino and the Park of the Quarry, are the natural reserves that, a few kilometres from the coast, offer you a lot of fresh and evocative trails, ideal for your excursions.

The Oasis of Montebello, in the municipality of Torriana, has been recognized by the European Union as a sensitive area from the environmental point of view.
Created in 1993 to protect a landscape that is very interesting for its vegetation, for the many species of wild animals and for its geological peculiarity (the presence of gaseous formations), the oasis covers 1200 hectares and is home to the Natural Observatory of Valmarecchia.

In the River Park of Marano, in the municipality of Coriano, you will come into contact with a rich and seductive flora and along the paths you will probably run across specimens of small mammals, hear the cuckoo and see the kingfisher diving into the water of the river to eat.

The Natural Reserve of Onferno, in the municipality of Gemmano, is known for its caves.
Along the underground way you will be guided through the canyons and the bottlenecks that were created from the erosive water and you will reach the greatest natural spectacle of the giant clusters of crystal.

We suggest hiking shoes and heavy sweat.

The Arboreto of Mondaino, in its nine hectares of forests, has more than five thousand plants that are representative of the Mediterranean bush.
It hosts the Dimora Theatre and its workshops of theatre and dance.

The Park of the Quarry, in the municipality of Poggio Berni, is situated near a fossil field of which it fosters the findings.
For guided tours you must book at least five days in advance to the office of tourism.

Not only trekking therefore in the hinterland of Riccione, but a fresh and enveloping embrace by nature which, so protected, can really be a cure for your soul.

Spring has come back, the sweet and gentle time that sees nature sprouting and blossoming again.

In Riccione, in gymnasiums and sports establishments, also the harmony of Spring of Budo blossoms again.
The international stage of martial arts and disciplines of mind and body is coming back from 22 to 25 April.
At its 24th edition, the event is promoted, with an always great enthusiasm and passion, by Libertas Association, in collaboration with the Municipality of Riccione. Useful to budokas of every schools of the world to meet and to confront, the meeting is open to anyone, with no age limits, who wants even only to approach this fascinating discipline.
Yoseikan Budo (The house who teaches in a rigorous way the way of the warrior) is a discipline that has originated at the beginning of the ‘900 from the historical researches and the intuitions of the Japanese master Minoru Mochizuki, and since the ’70s it has spread in Europe thanks to his son, Hiroo Mochizuki. However it is in the latter years that martial arts and the whole mythology of samurai have strongly come up again, with the complicity of a series of successful films, realized both at East and at Hollywood. People have discovered then its artistic relevance, and more, words like katana, ju jutsu, konbo, enter the current language.

The Yoseikan Budo aims to develop physical power and a positive mental attitude, through the teaching of the technical corpus which is the basis of the different martial arts. Starting from fighting techniques of the classical medieval samurai, the budo teacher proposes armed combat and body free exercises according to a modern and constantly evolving educational methodology. In other words Budo is a research on movement, for a harmonious use of the body and of energy that is within us and among us, whose ultimate objective is peace with himself and with all the world.

With 24th Spring Budo Riccione proposes to modern samurai four days of training, between tradition and continue experimentation, looking for the wave shock to pick the flower of harmony, which is in each of us and in everyone different.

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Accussi” does Radio Deejay at Easter in Riccione!
This year on the occasion of Easter the Department of tourism of the town of Riccione presents citizens and tourists on arrival a very special chocolate egg: if you unwrap it, you can hear cheerful voices and laughs, if you taste it, it savours of good mood, if you break it, the notes and the songs of the most popular radio of Italy come out. Inside there is the most joyful and trendy surprise that can be desired: its name is Deejay Square.
At this point the appointment is usual, but the mix of ingredients is always original and explosive: from Saturday 22 to Monday 24 March, the speakers of Radio Deejay will come back in the beautiful setting of Piazzale Roma, where everything is ready for a three-day of live music and assured fun.
Among the nicest and most popular voices, who daily keep company six million listeners of the Milanese radio, La Pina and Diego will inaugurate Deejay Square on Friday from 17 to 19, and they will repeat on Saturday from 10 to 12. On Sunday the microphone passes to Stefania Salardi and Federico Russo, from 14 to 17.
As regards lives, on Saturday it will be the turn of the great rhythm of Roy Paci and the band Aretuska: started from Sicily with their Caribbean ska-jazz music, in Riccione they will irresistibly capture the square with the contagious good mood of their most famous songs.
And who knows that they will not open with the funny refrain “iè accussi fa a radiulina”…
On Sunday the show will go on with Giuliano Palma & The Bluebeaters, that have moved us with their original covers of the mythical American soul, and that now are presenting their new album “Boogaloo” in a fusion style of R & B, rock’n roll and soul, all to be danced.
The concerts, admission free, will begin at 21.30 in a Piazzale Roma that certainly will be full of passionate fans of good music.
The Easter weekend featuring Riccione and Radio Deejay is just the beginning of a collaboration that for this summer, in addition to the historical programme Walky Cup from Aquafan, promises good news.
In 2008 Easter egg there are surprises on surprises: “accussi” does Radio Deejay with Riccione.

Riccione prepares for Easter 2008.
Among the Easter initiatives, that one of Associazione Pantòs with the collaboration of the City of Riccione is special for originality and charms: the Last Dinner of Sand, is the title which summarized the great sand sculpture, creates meadows of the track of ice-skating, adjacent street D’ Annunzio in Place Aldo Moro, close to the restaurant La Fattoria (beach 122). Pantos Association carries out this sculpture with the will “to pose in the centre of Easter Festivity the figure of Jesus Christ, during the Last Dinner with its apostles, before dying and reappearing for us”.
The team of seven artists of the “Accademia della Sabbia”, known at the public and the tourists for the achievements of the cribs of Christmas on the beach the last years, proposes to carry out, under the artistic direction of Maestro Antonio Molin, a sculpture four times larger than this of 2007, its impressive size 12 X 9 meters.
For the occasion it will be prepared a covered structure of 12 X 18 meters, to receive and protect the sculpture.
Work began on March three and will be completed in March 15. At 17,00 starts the inaugural ceremony with the presence of several institutional representatives and the Bishop Monsignor Francesco Lambiasi.
During the two weeks of preparation, the artists will be honoured to show the techniques of work of the sculpture, at the schools or the private groups, which will request a guided tour.
The Last Dinner of Sand, will be in Riccione until March 30.
Reserve your Easter holidays in Riccione!

Here we are! Friday March 14, 2008, at 21.15, Theatre of the Sea of Riccione. The event can not be missed, it is better you postpone any other appointment. Within Bravo Jazz festival, Charles McPherson Quartet is about to give birth to one of the most longed for concerts of the season of Riccione: “Bird, in a spirit of Charlie Parker”.
Charles McPherson is one of the great of jazz.
Vibrating alto sax, at the same time faithful and original follower of Charlie Parker, he is considered to be his heir.
He is defined by the New York Times “a singular voice that has never sacrificed the fluidity of its melody and is held in high consideration by the young musicians”.
Behind a long forty years career, he has a curriculum that gives the shudders, just like the poetry of his music.
He was born in Joplin, Missouri, but he grew up in Detroit where he took his first steps into music as a young student of the renowned pianist Barry Harris. After a brilliant debut, at 19 years old, he moved to New York in 1960 and met Charles Mingus: it began a mythical artistic companionship, which lasted, exciting, until 1972.
At the same period he gave life to his historic formation, composed by Barry Harris at the piano, Lonnie Hillyer on trumpet, and George Coleman to tenor sax. With them, but also alone engaged by the major jazz musicians of the time, he made long tours in the United States, Europe, Japan, South America and Africa. Collaborations for recordings are also important: we only mention those with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and his most recent and beloved “Manhattan Nocturne”. For Clint Eastwood he gave voice to the alto sax of Charlie Parker in the film “Bird”.
After the success achieved in the past few days in Parma, the Charles McPherson Quartet is ready to climb on the stage of Riccione.
The talented young formation is composed by the legendary alto sax, his son Chuk on drums, Michael Weiss to the piano, Rubin Rogers at the double bass. Here they are, with their tribute to Bird Charlie Parker, ready to vibrate, with infinite passion and skill, their instruments and the hearts of all those present in the hall.