A New Year’s Eve immerged in a sea of bright lights and shiny decorations, with walks in the historical Ceccarini boulevard, the seaside in the winter and much fun: you’ll find all this and much more in Riccione!

What do you think about spending some days this year in a wellness centre in the Adriatic Riviera to take have a pause from the everyday life? The Riviera is as ready as always to welcome whoever chooses to spend there some days!

Spending a New Year’s Eve in a wellness centre means being pampered in the hotel with swimming pools and massages, without having to renounce to parties in the street or in pubs, discos and restaurants: summing up, it’s a perfect meeting of fun and relax!

Many choose their hotel paying attention to pick a restaurant hotel, so that they can participate in the New Year’s Eve dinner directly at the hotel, to avoid having to move from one place to the other in the confusion of the traffic of the New Year’s Eve’s night.

Among the proposals for the New Year’s Eve period in Riccione there is the Concerto di Auguri (Wishes Concert), the melodies of which are inspired to the American music of ‘900; it will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi on the 30th December, free entrance. On the 31st, instead, you will have the chance to wait for the New Year in one of the numerous discos and see the traditional fireworks in Piazzale Roma.

For the first day of 2011, in the calendar of the proposals in Riccione, there’s the traditional swim in the sea: a group of brave people will dive into the freezing water of the winter sea for a swim which is meant to bring good luck for the New Year; the meeting for the willing swimmers is on the 1st January at noon in front of Piazzale Roma.

During the whole period of the Christmas, of course, like every city Riccione as well is dressed in holiday style: the central Ceccarini Boulevard is lightened as every year with the numerous lights which contribute to make the Christmas period so special.

Cities seem to participate to a competition to expose the most beautiful lights: they all dress up showing lights, forms and colours, so that all squares and streets celebrate Christmas. In the big parks, but also in the little beds of grass, there are cribs, very elaborated or simple, lamp posts and trees are filled with lights, there are shiny writings wishing a merry Christmas and lights cascades hung from one side of the street to the other...summing up, everything’s a shiny party!

Apart from the lights, the Christmas period also gives life to numerous local street markets in which you can find any kind of Christmas presents for everyone: handmade objects like bags, diaries, wooden toys and wrought iron objects, in the Christmas local street markets you can find ideas for everyone’s presents!

Hence, everything’s ready in the Adriatic Riviera for another New Year’s Eve: Riccione is waiting for you to say goodbye to 2010 and welcome 2011, hoping it will bring many beautiful things! Work, holidays, family, friends and everything you are looking for, we wish you that 2011 may bring you everything good you desire!