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 15 to 18 May 2008, Fiera di Rimini with RiminiWellness, at its 8th edition, welcomes the world of fitness.

Always attentive to what is trendy, the city hosts what, at least from the beginning of the millennium, has been one of the most significant “cultural” phenomenon: the pursuit of a healthier and harmonious lifestyle.

Pursuit that has found in fitness the main ally against the stress of every day.

Today decalogues for well-being are everywhere.

Among remedies advertised as infallible and extraordinary news, Riminiwellness annually sees what the situation is, by addressing the issue from many points of view and hosting meetings with professionals. It is the official event for people that have as a primary objective the attention for the body and for health.

This year RiminiWellness has 6 thematic areas: Fitness, Wellness - Beauty, Sports & Fashion - Dance, Wellness Food, Wellness Tourism and the new Contract Design.

Avant-garde gyms, gymnastic apparatus all to be tested, integrators; beauty centers’ innovations; comfortable and fashionable clothing and the meeting with the professionals of dancing and of entertainment; healthy nutrition; tourism pointing right to the wellbeing in its variations, thermal, fitness and senior; and the new market of systems furniture with proposals of interior design ideal for fitness clubs.

Another novelty, 8th RiminiWellness is divided into two macroareas: WFUN, the side with spectacular events, and WPRO, dedicated to exposure and business with a focus on scientific knowledge.

Rimini Fair for three days will welcome the public and the operators and will become an agora for a dialogue on wellness.
The theme is ancient and modern, but basically what is trendy has always been recovered from past times.

Enjoy the event, book a special week end in Riccione!

In the varied landscape of Italian food and wine tourism there is a manifestation of success that has outcomes and premises particularly significant.

We are speaking about Squisito!
Cooks, products, recipes, wines.

Itinerary in Buonpaese (and the name itself is a whole program), desirable and festive fair that selects and displays the best food and that directs the trends of good cooking. To organize it, very well, are the boys of San Patrignano that invite, in the largest recovery community of the world, all the cheer spirits and the laborious bellies.
On the hills of Rimini Squisito! is coming back, at its 5th edition, from 30 May to 2 June 2008.

Meanwhile preparations are fervent around the tables that for now receive “only” the 1800 boys of the center, founded in 1978 by Vincenzo Muccioli, and the staff of assistants and volunteers.

Around the same tables, but also in the fast foods of The street of street food and on the grass with Déjeuner sur l’herbe, people will consume the event that, under the leadership of the Gastronaut Davide Paolini, will involve a hundred of excellent chefs.
Visitors will be amazed in the face of the more fanciful recipes, will appreciate the traditional Italian dishes or will become curious by the best of European and world cuisine.

In any way, they will face with delicacies, to accompany with good wines, chosen by award-winning wineries.
In the stands they will buy food and agricultural products coming from the ground around the corner or from remote plots of ground, from Peru, Afghanistan, Colombia, which have joined the program of conversion from opiates cultivation.

Many other realities that have made the work of land a tool for fighting against all forms of hardship situations were also present.
To enrich the manifestation roundtables and a lot of original proposals.

The high cultural and social value of the event, brought it the sponsorship of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Vincenzo Muccioli would be happy to see his community engaged in a really… Squisito! way.

“Non-violence should not be preached.
It should be practiced”, said Gandhi. It is to underline the importance of this message that, from 3 April to 16 May 2008, the Banquet of People for Peace will come back.
The event, every two years, with its 4th edition deals with the difficult and necessary theme of non-violence.
The Banquet, sponsored by the Municipality of Riccione and by the assessorship for Peace, in collaboration with the Province of Rimini and the municipalities of Rimini, Cattolica, Misano Adriatico, Coriano and about twenty institutions that are active in the territory, will involve intellectuals, operators and ordinary people of every race and age.
Seven weeks and thirty meetings to give voice to people who, in a non-violent and active way, are fighting against oppression.
Through round tables, exhibitions, theatre performances, concerts, documentaries, workshops, films, the debate will take shape.
The big programme of the event will take place in different locations of four cities: Riccione, Misano, San Giovanni in Marignano and Rimini.
To underline the importance of operating in our own small way, the Banquet proposes concrete examples of non-violence applied to the economy, religion, law and politics, education.
Examples where listening and dialogue, creativity and awareness are the main weapons to oppose the aggressiveness that breaks the social tissue.
The central day is Saturday, May 10 for the feast of the Banquet of people, at the Palazzo del Turismo di Riccione and in the square in front, with the final dinner offered to all and a world of dance that joyously will hit our senses and will bring a message of hope to everybody.
Riccione Hotels will be happy to accommodate the participants of the Banquet and to give them a comfortable environment where they will be able to reflect on how to become messengers of peace.
If, to paraphrase a proverb, between preaching and practice there is always the sea, the Banquet of People for Peace 2008 is a crucial event for people who would begin, or is already trying to row in the waters of non-violence.

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!