Gastronomy and nightlife
It is best to eat cheaply on the waterfront, where there are hundreds of pizzerias. There are also some very exclusive venues, where elegant attire is required, but the most interesting restaurants are concentrated in the old town. The explosive Chiesa de Vein, on via 4 November, away from the station in the direction opposite to the city center, offers wine and snacks. A little further, La Greppia in Corso d’Augusto, koło Three Martyrs Square, gives the typical spaghetti variants with meat. Controlled, in via Molo Levante, in Bulivon, Kennedy Square 2, it's restaurants, which can be recommended with a clear conscience. There are expensive fish restaurants across the Ponte Tiberio, II Columbus i II Lucido. At via Garibaldi, running inland from Piazza Tre Martiri, there are a number of premises, where pizza is sold, and in the shop on via Bonsi you can buy piada - pitta bread with hot stuffing consisting of mozzarella, tomatoes and ham. There is a good canteen near the train station in via Roma 70 (pn.-sb. 11.30-15.00 i 18.30-21.00). Motorists should check out two restaurants in the suburbs of Covignano: Dalia Maria in via Grazie 81 i Red Grotto, via Red Grotto 13. Another restaurant, which is worth the trouble, to Bastian Opposite, 5 km outside the city (bus no 15, 16, 18, 19) in via Marecchiese 312.
Rimini's nightlife takes place on the waterfront, where company is sought, goes to clubs, plays a single-handed bandit ”and hangs out in ice cream parlors. In Et-hos-Mama in via Risorgimento 25, south of Rimini in Gabbice Mare, and in a new club called Diabolika (beginning of approx. 23.00) they play british music, American and Latin American. It happened, that people from London and Ibiza used to come here, but so far it is a small-scale undertaking. You can spend a more peaceful evening in Cinema Astra, at via G. D'Annunzio 20, Misano Adriatic, also south, where alternative films are shown; it is even calmer at the festival of classical music, which takes place all summer - Sagra Musicale Malatestiana - at Tempio Malatesta, and there are occasional film weeks. Being in the city of Fellini's birth, it is also worth visiting the film festivals in Riccione (South, beginning of June) the Bellarias (to the north, beginning of July).
Surroundings of Rimini: Republic of San Marino
The landscape around Rimini is attractive: hilltop towns and lush valleys covered with fir and chestnut trees, with numerous bus connections from the coast. I give SAINT ARCHANGEL, 11 km inland, worth the drive because of the steep medieval streets and the 13th century fortress (VI-IX wt., thurs. i sb. 10.00-12.00 i 16.00-19.00). In the hillside on the edge of town there are moist artificial caves dug in the 7th century. by early Christians as a hideout. The street theater festival takes place here at the beginning of June, attracted by people from all over the area. Others come to local restaurants, of which we recommend Da Lazaroun on via del Płatano 21.
All this is very different from the second tourist attraction after the beach - the Republic of San Marino, which shamelessly trades with its artificially preserved autonomy. It was supposedly founded in 300 r.n.e. by a monk fleeing the persecution of Diocletian, has its own mint, prints its own postage stamps and maintains an army of 1,000. Embankments and buildings in the medieval style, restored in our century, arouse some interest, but all this country is staffage and it is worth coming to San Marino only because of the landscape of its tiny territory and duty-free whiskey sold in shops and bars.