Gabicce Mare is situated on the northern limit of the Marche region, and it is among the towns and cities part of the famous Adriatic Riviera.

It’s a little Marche town, separated from Romagna by the torrent Tavollo; crossing it you arrive in Cattolica, another famous seaside town of the Riviera. The geographical position is strategic: choosing to stay in a hotel in Gabicce Mare you will enter in a pleasant setting, near various touristic cities: just think about the nearby Cattolica, but also Rimini and Riccione on the Romagna side, and, in the Marche region, Pesaro.

There are many 3-star hotels in Gabicce ready to host the holidaymakers of Christmas and the New Year’s Eve looking for fun and relax: either you look for a luxury hotel to celebrate with an extraordinary dinner or a simple place where you can leave your luggage and go out for the night, it’s already time to book a hotel in Gabicce Mare to grant your Christmas holiday!

Always and everywhere, in fact, the New Year’s Eve is celebrated in many different ways, following local traditions but also personal habits, preferences and tastes: some like huge parties with hundreds of guests, others prefer dining with a few friends, some like to celebrate in the streets, others in pubs and discos, others at home.

Uses connected with the New Year’s Eve are many, and include clothing and food; in Italy, in general, people traditionally dress something red and something new to welcome the New Year, and eat twelve grapes at midnight, one for each toll.

Lentils bring good luck, but you should pay attention to the first person you meet in the New Year: a hunch-backed or an old man is a good omen, while they say that meeting a child or a priest is not a good start.

Some say that on the New Year’s Eve you have to throw away – literally – old things, and they throw things out of the window – a rather dangerous tradition for parked cars and unlucky pedestrians. All the uses of the New Year’s Eve were born hoping to grant abundance and prosperity in the new Year: hopes obviously go towards an improvement, and we always think that the upcoming year will bring what we are waiting for.

As Lucio Dalla says in "L’anno che verrà" (the upcoming year), the year coming by will pass in a year: after all, perhaps, it won’t be different from the others, but we always hope that in the New Year many things may change...the television said that the New Year will bring a transformation, and all of us are already waiting for it, Dalla sings.

Maybe it won’t be Christmas three times nor feast all day long, but we hope and wish everybody that the New Year will bring positive things and all the serenity that all of us earn every day. We hope that 2011 will bring smiles on everybody’s mouths, honesty and justice: may it actually be a New Year and may it bring something new, with the help of all those who work hard to make it happen.

Merry Christmas and best wishes for your 2011: may it be honest, serene, fair...happy!