PROGRAM

Thursday 29 September

We will meet in Riccione for registration and accommodation at the Hotel Corallo **** S, viale Gramsci n. 113, tel. 0541-600.807 with parking of the cars in the Hotel garage. Check-in from h. 14.30.

20. 20.00 aperitif by the pool.

Friday 30th September

In the morning departure for Misano Adriatico, destination for the Marco Simoncelli circuit in Santamonica for the regularity test.

At the racetrack, we will visit the museum inaugurated this year on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its construction.

Furthermore, we will be able to wander around the paddock to visit the pits where the shake-down of the bikes that will participate in the final test of the CIV – Italian speed championship takes place.

Departure for San Marino where we will have lunch, we will visit the city accompanied by a guide and, at the end of the visit, we will be able to stroll through the shops of the city. Return to the hotel in Riccione.

Fish dinner on the beach of Viale Ceccarini. Parking and car exhibition on Piazzale Roma. Evening walk along Viale Ceccarini.

Saturday 1st October

In the morning departure for the Marecchia valley, destination San Leo.

We will visit the city accompanied by a guide, and in particular the Rocca, famous because Giuseppe Balsamo, Count of Cagliostro, was imprisoned there, the Medici Palace, the Cathedral and the Romanesque Pieve.

Departure for Villa Verucchio where we will have lunch at the Hostaria Rò e Bunì, a typical restaurant of the Romagna hinterland.

In the afternoon we will visit Santarcangelo di Romagna and, among other things, the Museum dedicated to Tonino Guerra, poet and screenwriter of several films by Federico Fellini.

In case of impossibility to access Santarcangelo, in the afternoon we will visit Verucchio with the Castle and the Museum of Villanovan Culture. Return to the hotel in Riccione.

Gala dinner at the hotel in the interclub with the Rotary Clubs of the Romagna South Area.

Awarding of the winners of the regularity test.

Sunday 2nd October

9.00 am departure for Rimini where we will meet the fellowship of motorcyclists leaving for their tour.

We will visit, accompanied by a guide, the Fellini Museum, named after the great Master, which winds through the city, and the characteristic Borgo di San Giuliano where on the walls of numerous houses there are murals inspired by scenes from his films.

Then, fish lunch at the Trattoria Marianna at the Ponte di Tiberio and closing of the gathering.

REGISTRATION FEES:

€. 890.00 for a crew of two for the entire event, service contribution included

€. 590.00 for a single crew for the entire event, including the Service contribution

Please send the registration forms as soon as possible and the payment by 19 September 2022 by bank transfer to the current account of the Copparo Alfonso II d’Este Rotary Club whose reference Iban is as follows:

Intesa Sanpaolo – IT 48 V 03069 09606 100000 160457

Please send the membership forms to:

Daniele Antinucci, avv@antinuccidaniele.191.it – cell. 335-68.78.643, R.C. Bologna Samoggia Valley

Vittorio Capatti, vittoriocapatti@gmail.com – cell. 335-5614929, R.C. Copparo Alfonso II d’Este

Rodolfo Michelucci, rrr@simir.it – cell. 336-648678 – R.C. Rimini Riviera

PLACES OF THE EVENT

Giovanni Pascoli in the poem Romagna, remembered and described his land as follows:

Always a village, always a countryside

laughs at my heart (or cries), Severino:

the country where, on our way, it accompanies us

the blue vision of San Marino.

Sunny Romagna, sweet country,

which Guidi and Malatesta reigned;

the courteous Passator also kept,

king of the road, king of the forest.

Rimini

Summer resort of international importance, it is the “capital” of the Romagna Riviera and extends for 15 km along the Upper Adriatic coast.

It boasts a long tourist tradition: in 1843 the first bathing establishment in Italy was inaugurated here.

Colony founded by the Romans in 268 BC, for the whole period of their domination it was a communication node between the north and the south of the peninsula and on its soil the Roman emperors erected monuments of which important traces remain.

Here Julius Caesar pronounced the famous phrase “Alea iacta est” before his legions.

It was a fief of the Malatesta family, and the court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta was one of the liveliest of the time, hosting artists such as Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Roberto Valturio, Matteo de ‘Pasti preserving important works of the Italian Renaissance.

Rimini appears for the first time on the screen in some films on seaside life, including the documentary “Rimini l’Ostenda d’Italia” (1912).

But it was Fellini, one of the most famous directors in the history of cinema, who made Rimini’s characters, places and atmospheres famous in the world through his films, inspired by his hometown, even if they were shot almost entirely in the Cinecittà studios in Rome: “I Vitelloni (1953),“ 8½ ”(1963, Oscar winner 1964), the documentary“ I clowns ”(1970) and Amarcord (1973, Oscar winner 1975).

To Federico Fellini, Rimini has dedicated a widespread museum in the city to Federico Fellini.

In addition to those of Fellini, among the numerous films shot in Rimini stand out “The first night of quiet” (1972, directed by Valerio Zurlini) and “Rimini Rimini” (1987, directed by Sergio Corbucci).

Riccione

Riccione is, together with Rimini, one of the best known and most popular Italian seaside towns and one of the main landmarks of the Romagna Riviera, known by the tourist nickname the Green Pearl of the Adriatic.

The city has been among the entertainment capitals in Italy from the sixties onwards (in 1965 the director Dino Risi chose the city to shoot the film “L’ombrellone”).

It is also known for the songs “Viale Ceccarini, Riccione” by the Bolognese singer-songwriter Dino Sarti, and “Sotto il sole di Riccione” by the pop group Thegiornalisti by Tommaso Paradiso.

San Marino

San Marino, officially Serenissima Republic of San Marino, often abbreviated to the Republic of San Marino, is the oldest republic in the world still existing, and has been included by UNESCO among the

heritages of humanity as “testimony of the continuity of a free republic since the thirteenth century”.

It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.

San Leo

San Leo is located on a rock spur of Valmarecchia from which you can see San Marino and the Marecchia river.

The town, known for its fortress and Romanesque-style parish church, has been declared “the most beautiful village in Italy”, “Orange Flag of the Italian Touring Club”, “Municipality of the Jewel of Italy”, and has also obtained the recognition of “American Friendly” locations.

San Leo rises in the center of Valmarecchia, the area that inspired the landscapes of Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci.

Santarcangelo of Romagna

Santarcangelo lies on a hill called “Colle di Giove”: a legend says that the name of the Sangiovese vine derives from this name.

Santarcangelo is a markedly medieval village that has been able to mix the knowledge of tradition with the most innovative thrusts towards the future: in fact it is the site of initiatives such as the encounter with street art; the Festival dei Teatri and Mutonia a community of artists and performers who since the early 90s have been expressing their art dedicated to reuse and waste.

Verucchio

Located between the sea and the hill, Verucchio rises in the Marecchia valley which it dominates from a raised position.

It is the home of the branch of the Malatesta family who later became the Lords of Rimini.

This fact is also mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy (Inferno, canto 27 – verses 46-48):

“It’s the old Mastin and the new one from Verrucchio,

who made bad government out of Montagna,

where they want their teeth suck. “

Misano World Circuit

The Misano racetrack, called Autodromo di Santamonica, was inaugurated in 1972.

The original circuit measured 3,488 meters, in January 2007, the track was lengthened to 4,180 meters with the reversal of the direction of travel (from that moment on, clockwise), and from 2015 it assumed its current length of 4,226 mt.

After the disappearance in Sepang of the popular ‘Sic’, which had begun its motorcycle career in Misano, in 2012 the circuit took on its current name: ‘Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli’.

For more information and photo’s, have a look at the Official brochure