Riccione

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Riccione is an Italian comune with 32,991 inhabitants in the Rimini province.

Tourism

Main destination of summer tourism on the Adriatic riviera of Romagna is together with Rimini one of the best known seaside resort in Northern Italy, within the last year a steady growth of foreign tourists, especially from Germany, has been recorded. The tourism in Riccione is a mass one, mostly young people, who have been attracted by the number and variety of discos on the Riviera and in the city centre, that contributed to make the city a synonym of unleashed young amusement from the 60s onward. Riccione also attracts families with children, thanks to its theme parks, which are among the most famous in Italy, like oltremare, aquafan and indiana golf hosting dolphines, seals, sea horses and some more sea animals. The scores of hotels on the Riviera determine the large amount of tourists flowing there in summer, one next to the other. The main streets of Riccione, viale Dante and viale Ceccarini (also marked by night spots, idscos and hotels), are swarming with people walking or going around on bikes. The sea-front is a long boulevard shaped by a road and an equally developed bicycle lane, that reaches up to the town's end going along the sea

Sport

On May 30 1989 the 10th lap of the Giro d'Italia, an individual time trial, ended in Riccione with the Polish Lech Piasecki as a winner.