Cattolica and Gabicce, authentic “pearls” of the Adriatic Coast, they are always more protagonists also of the tourism for women, firstly thanks to the lot of qualified hotels of the new Consortium The Women’s Hotel. Recently, their special welcome is in fact very appreciated by a lot of women also in these beautiful towns on Adriatic Sea.
With the Women’s hotels, Gabicce and Cattolica propose a big choice of special offers for women who travel, often alone, both for job and pure tourism. From women to women. A hotel management rigorously female allows in fact to the Hotels of the Women to interpret better than anyone else the desires and demands of a female clientele.
In Cattolica and Gabicce you will find in every period of the year the best offers for “vaction for ladies”, with the Women’s Hotels ready to reserve you the best cares. (more…)

Gabicce, on the border between Romagna and Marche, it is the perfect destination for a holiday in any season of the year.
Also without the crowded beaches typical of the summer period, it represents in fact one of the more interesting tourist places of the whole Adriatic coast also in autumn and winter.
But, firstly thanks to the new Hotel of the Women, Gabicce offers a lot of special holidays especially conceived for the women.
Women who travel for job, simply for tourism, alone, with their friends or family, everyone will be cuddled with a special welcome. (more…)

If you’re thinking about organizing your next holiday in Cattolica, submit you to the best welcome by the Women’s Hotel.
You will be surprised for how the hotel keepers of this young hotel consortium will know better than each other every your demand.
The secret of the success of Women’s Hotels it is in fact in the female management and in the oneness of their special offers for the “travellers women“.
In Cattolica, the Women’s Hotel are eight and everyone of the best category (3 and 4 stars). (more…)

Vladimir Luxuria, artist and former parliamentarian, boasts two primacies.
First transgender of the Italian Parliament, she is also the first politician of the television reality show “L’isola dei Famosi” (The isle of famous people).
From the “Transatlantico”, the hall for the intervals of parliamentarians, to the little island of Honduras, the set of the reality show of Rai Due channel, it seems to be there, and actually there is, an ocean.
But if to cross it there is Vladimir Luxuria, who can swim by little but has already the wind in her sails, any distance disappears.
Actress and drag queen, Vladimir Luxuria, whose real name is Vladimiro Guadagno, has begun her theatrical career at the “Taverna del Gufo”, in Foggia, where she was born.
In Rome, she has a degree in languages, with a first, has played for cinema, and has performed at the “Muccassassina”, the historic gay night-club for which she has also been artistic director. (more…)

Milan is celebrating the everlasting fashion of Mila Schön with an exhibition at Palazzo Reale.
But at the opening of 19 September 2008 just she was absent, “the lady of elegance”, “the queen of style”, dead at the age of 89 years, when her most famous creations were reaching the venue of the exposition.
Wanted to celebrate the 50 years of activity of the designer who was among the protagonists of the birth of the “Made in Italy”, the exhibition Mila Schön: Linee Colori Superfici is a dutiful tribute to the woman who made Milanese style synonymous with elegance in the world. (more…)

12th Blue Flag for Marche, but 15th for Gabicce: 2008 seems to bring luck to this joyfully, wonderfull town of Marche!The Blue Flag is an exclusive eco-label awarded to over 3300 beaches and marinas in different countries across the World.

It works towards sustainable development at beaches/marinas through strict criteria dealing with water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety and other services.
For the standards of the FEE, there are two different Blu Flag awards:

• Water quality;
• Environmental manegement & safety and services.

And Gabicce no less!

Thanks, certainly, to the commitment of the municipal administration, the town is in full, explosive growth, but also of a careful care of the environment.
In fact, recently, in its shallow has been noted the rebirth of some plants Marine: the zostera Marina and the cymodocea nodosa: naturalistic heritage of great value, both biological and “physical” of the sea, as an indices of good health of the water!

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“…finché vedrai /sventolar/bandiera gialla…’ **
…that is what Gianni Pettenati sang in his famous song, and in Rimini a disco has been named after that!
However, no: it is not Yellow, but blue, the color of the flag that Cattolica has been showing off, with pride, for more than a decade.

The Blue Flag is an exclusive eco-label awarded to over 3300 beaches and marinas in different countries across the World.
It works towards sustainable development at beaches/marinas through strict criteria dealing with water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety and other services.
For the standards of the FEE, there are two different Blu Flag awards:

• Water quality
• Environmental manegement & safety and services

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“It is said that sometimes, at down, when the sea is clear and calm, one could see underwater a Boulevard with columns; as a child I was convinced to see them every hour.”
So tells one of the many fascinated spectators of Valbruna: a misterious place facing Gabicce Monte, on the edge between Romagna and Marche.

People’s fantasy has always borne magic stories that could keep company to our life.
It is hard to resist these charming stories, despite scepticism, because, even if they are fake, the mystery that they spread seems to attract us as an irresistible magnet.

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The Doppia Difesa Foundation O.N.L.U.S. has for founders Michelle Hunziker and Giulia Bongiorno and it was founded in 2007 with a mission to provide support to women and children victims of violence, discrimination and abuse at home or at work.

Very different for job profiles but close in terms of strength of character, the two young women have fought with tenacity and determination to prove their value in two decidedly “machisti” environments.

Michelle Hunziker is the most appreciated showgirl at the moment, a moment that in fact lasted for years as proof of her consolidated and eclectic talent, and Giulia Bongiorno, her skilful lawyer, that still young was noticed in the defensive college of Senator Andreotti, is now insistently mentioned as a possible holder to the Ministry of Justice.

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Besides traditionally queens of hospitality, the Adriatic localities of Cattolica and Gabicce have now also a new particular respect for female tourism. From women to the women. It’s also this, in fact, the spirit that animates the Alberghi delle Donne (Hotels of the Women), that between Cattolica and Gabicce counts many hotels of high level and by rigorously female management.

Over that in a “standard” tourist reception, the Alberghi delle Donne offer in fact contemplated service particularly appreciated by the female world, both as it regards the food - with a restaurant service based on biological products and a lot of vegetables - and the relax, with wellness centres managed by qualified operators, but also the sport, more and more practised at high level by women.

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From May 1 to 4 Cattolica, formerly “Queen of the Adriatic”, will also be titled Queen of flowers. That for the thirtysixth time: it is the Flower and ornamental plants show that crowns it the most fragrant city.
Cattolica in flower 2008, with the the trump card of its four thousand square meters and more of exposure, will receive a hundred breeders, coming from abroad too, and the main streets of the city will be stained and sweet-smelling that will be a marvel.
The event will make the joy of those among us have green fingers and are always looking for suggestions to make special their garden or for the idea to make spring blossom in their houses, but it will also attract a lot of simple admirers of floral beauty and a crowd of curious who want to spend entire days among all kinds of petals, leaves, and pistils, plunged into the charm of the plant world.

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Ferretti Yachts is, all over the world, synonym with luxury and elegance. For the jet set its boats are a must. In magazines, in nautical shows, in the most exclusive moles, they are absolute protagonists. And like real first women, in the years they are buying a magnetic charm: it is impossible to give them an age.
To remember the years of Lady world navigation there is Norberto Ferretti, founder and president of the group. He is reminding them from Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 April with “Privilege days”, and then with a large calendar of events: the 40th anniversary of an incredible adventure needs unforgettable celebrations.

In Forlì Ferretti shipyard opened its doors in 1968, by the dream of the brothers Norberto and Alessandro that, with persistence and professionalism, have made of their passion an extraordinary standard bearer of the Made in Italy in the world.

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There is always a first time and, in this case more than ever, we would like to add fortunately. In fact, if there are choices that let us hope for well, Emma Marcegaglia first woman president of Confindustria has what it takes to be one of them.
Born in Mantua in 1965, the entrepreneur is accustomed to primacies with the association of Italian industrialists: in 1996, thirty, she was the first woman to set foot in the head office of Astronomy street. She entered with a role of responsibility, as president of young industrialists, and in the years she has held the most prestigious positions at European level. In recognition of her dazzling career, and of the esteem and trust that she has been able to conquer, she is now designated as head of Confindustria. And here there are three primacies at once: sex, age, and the plebiscite of the highest percentage of votes ever reached (99.2%).
She said she is “very excited, happy, proud”. She considers her appointment as “a symbol for all women” and indicates in low female employment one of the problems of the development in Italy.

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The super active Italian women that have to divide themselves between professional and family commitments and that do not give up the care of themselves, their own psychophysical wellness, are in sensible increase.
If you take into consideration in the complex gyms, aesthetic centres, creams, cosmetics and machinery to sculpture your body, you discover that the business generated by the sector has abundantly surpassed 20 billion of euros.
No sense of guilt if always more women dedicate some hours a week, a weekend or maybe an entire week holiday to the cure of their own body and “soul”.
Where? In the wellness centres and the thermal baths. Desire of cuddles, pleasure, relax, desire to set aside a moment for themselves and abandon the frenetic rhythms even for a little…these are the reasons that push us, women, (and not only) to turn to these centres and ask for wellness therapies such as face and body massages and so many practises borrowed from the Orient.

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Collinea: colli, colla, linea… who does not know it might try to make sense with it, but he won’t, because this is a particoular idea that people in Romagna had: so particoular that you could never guess! Collinea is a new Bus service: a special one!
It is a transport service that works as a normal bus, but better known because it connects the town of the Adriatic coast to the most beautiful cities of the Signoria Malatestiana, following two itineraries and four trails, wisely accompanied by a well-educated hostess as a guide.

The Romagna hinterland deserves as much as the coast: castles, fortresses, colline… who knew, for example, that in Rimini, in addition to the sea, there is the Malatesta temple?
Or the Arc of August or… well, it will be a surprise!
You must be curious, aren’t you?

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Before placing in the archives the most expensive Olympic Games of the history, it is with pride that we stop for a moment on the triumphs of Italian women at Beijing 2008.
Accustomed to demonstrate our value with nude numbers, we see that 11 of the 28 medals won by the Italian team are victories of women: the gold and the bronze in fencing respectively of Valentina Vezzali and Margherita Granbassi; the bronze in Team fencing of Valentina Vezzali, Margherita Granbassi, Giovanna Trillini and Ilaria Salvatori; the silver in Canoe-Kayak of Josefa Idem; the gold in judo of Giulia Quintavalle; the gold in archery flight of Chiara Cainero; the gold of Elisa Rigaudo in march 20 km; the gold in the 200 metres freestyle of Federica Pellegrini; the silver in the 800 metres freestyle of Alessia Filippi; the silver in sailing of Alessandra Sensini; the bronze in cycling road of Tatiana Guderzo. (more…)

If you are looking for a special idea to end your summer in the most tender way, a romantic stay between Cattolica and Gabicce, in one of our Alberghi delle Donne (Hotels of Women), can be right for you.
Famous seaside resorts of the Adriatic Coast, Cattolica and Gabicce have a sweet and gentle charm, that makes them perfect frames for your time for love.
Borderlands, richly evocative, Cattolica extends in Romagna and Gabicce in the Region of Le Marche.
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If rummaging in  the wardrobe of your mother, a vintage dress hits your attention and raises in you the irrepressible desire of wearing it, in all probability it is a Fiorucci dress.
It is a timeless fashion that of Elio Fiorucci, because, young, cheerful, sexy, intriguing, colorful, comfortable, lightweight, carefree, playful and joyful, it has been able to grasp the needs and the most relevant changes that have been passing in the female universe in the last forty years.
From Milan by birth and citizen of the world by vocation, the designer Elio Fiorucci is the 2008 man image  for the communes of Gradara and Cattolica who are celebrating him with an exhibition project.
In world premiere, the monographic exhibition on Elio Fiorucci is curated by the Arch. Laura Villani, and organised by Andrea De Crescentini, President of Gradara Innova.

Distributed in various locations and divided into several sections, the exhibition throws light on the varied universe Elio Fiorucci.
In Cattolica, from July 4 to September 20, 2008, the Galleria ex-cinema Ariston and Viale Bovio host ELIO FIORUCCI - LOVE MAKES LIFE MAGIC, a tribute to Fiorucci thought and to the philosophy behind his latest creation, the brand Love Therapy for women and children.

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You thought to be arrived and instead, parked the car or got out of the bus, the feeling of having to sail for a trip will capture you.
The Aquarium of Cattolica Le Navi (The Ships) may actually dazzle with the beauty of its white buildings in the form of a fleet, overlooking the sea.
And the visit of the wonders of the marine world what is if not a voyage to discover the distant and mysterious depths…

Open daily from 10.00 to 23.30 (for the high season, until September 7), the Theme Park of the Sea is divided into 5 sections, exciting and full of surprises.
The fascinating sharks of Geopolis; the trip around the world beneath the surface of seas and oceans at Aquapolis; the Poisons of animals, plants and minerals; the Sounds of the Sea, with the voices of the anything but mute sea creatures; the magic and funny trip At the Conquest of the Seas, so beloved by children.
And again: the 2008 novelty of Marty and its brothers, the babies of hammer-head sharks, born in captivity, already protagonists.

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Cattolica (RN) and Gabicce Mare (PU), with their beautiful beaches, are two famous seaside resorts.
The passionate fans of active holiday will be pleased to know that the bathing establishments along this stretch of the Adriatic coast are very well equipped.
The possibilities for those who love the adventure at sea are many.

Some people will be happy thanks to the rental of small boats, with or without skipper, for trips in the offing, some other for the rental of twin-hulled boats, motorboats, canoes, Jet sky, surfboards.
The Sailing School at the Circolo Velico in Gabicce Mare proposes two different courses (for beginners and advanced), held by experts instructors.

For people who at the excursions in the blue prefer those in the green, the Natural Park of Monte San Bartolo, spread over 1600 hectares between the rivers Foglia and Tavollo and degrading to the sea, offer unforgettable walks.

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DANZ.FEST is established as an international laboratory to explore and develop the creative arts of dance.

It provides a resource for the highest level of excellence in dance training, performance and teaching, bringing together for the first time the classical ballet of the Paris Opera, the contemporary Technique of Martha Graham and the oriental Butoh Dance philosophy in a unique opportunity to learn and experience these great techniques taught by masters of their art.

All technique classes of Ballet and Graham will be accompanied by live musicians and will be limited in size

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From Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24
Historical town centre in San Giovanni in Marignano

The celebration replaces the ancient rites once held to mark the summer solstice. For centuries it has therefore given rise to various events linked to popular beliefs and customs.

These include “Saint John’s Bonfires” as well as other propitiatory rituals that were typical of festivities to mark the start of the summer.

A collective custom on this occasion was to collect herbs that, according to popular belief, multiply their therapeutic and magical qualities if picked on the night before the feast of Saint John the Baptist, or in other words the night between 23rd and 24th June.

On 5th July the entire Riviera turns pink!
The third edition of the Italian summer’s New Year’s Eve
There’ll be shows, events, theatre sets, and scenery.
Each resort will interpret the theme in a creative and original way, offering everyone an unforgettable night of intense emotions.
The whole Riviera will become an enormous stage where everyone has a part to play.
La Notte Rosa will take place all along the coast, from the Lidos of Comacchio to Cattolica, but the heart of the event is the Riviera of Rimini.
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