The most significant historical milestones that have marked the years of the "Green Pearl"

A Riccione Two hundred years ago , during the rule of the Roman Empire, there were the first settlements and the first traces of human life , with the creation of small residential areas. Since the twentieth century there was a significant push to become an independent town (which became official on October 23, 1923), and took the first form hypotheses about the origins of the name Riccione , according to scholars, the more credible is that which contains the reference to a large rock located in the vicinity at the time called Arcioni , from which the city took its name. But still not been able to establish exactly where the name derives.

When you talk about the history of Riccione is impossible not to mention the spouses of Riccione Ceccarini benefactors , or John Boorman Ceccarini and Mary Wheeler , who helped in every way to the growth of the city in a very difficult period (around the nineteenth century), financing for their money the renovation of the city, such as the construction of the hospital, still known precisely Ceccarini, and the marina, and helping the poor and needy.

In 1260 then settled here in Riccione , the famous Florentine family of origin Agolanti the old lords of Riccione , bound in all respects to the Malatesta family, owners of nearby Rimini, who built a castle in the city (still visible) and helped to give a medieval area. Around 1920 we were the first forces to become an independent municipality of Riccione and October 19, 1923 the city was able to obtain their autonomy.

That riccionese had become now a place to be for the holidays in Riccione Family Mussolini : indeed in 1934 Benito bought a villa in Riccionenear the waterfront to make their summer home, still clearly visible and fixed location for art exhibitions and cultural events. The city thus became even more popular throughout Italy: in the thirties the boom of mass holiday in Riccione , the Duce organizing political meetings in his house with the most prestigious world-wide authority, while his wife Rachel, who had taken to heart the city , commits itself to promote the town figure throughout Italy.

Once the war and the birth, unbelievable, the pasta alla carbonara in Riccione , in effect from 1960 the city began the so-called "Years of Dolce Vita" , a period of great development after the difficult post-war years, which saw the birth of many in area hotels , as well as nightclubs , restaurants and bars that did become Riccione in the eighties "the Italian capital of fun."

Today at the Archaeological Site of San Lorenzo , you can see live all the most interesting evidence of the past in Riccione, numerous finds of all peoples who have settled in the area millions of years ago.