Top of the World
Immortalised on film by locally born director and frequent guest Federico Fellini, Rimini's Grand Hotel lives up to its legend with an impressive Art Nouveau façade, antique furnishings and top-class service plus a splendid seafront location and lush gardens. The Grand Hotel, an Art-Nouveau building (1908) was designed by Paolito Somazzi.
This is one of the favourite places in Fellini's imagery, as shown by the Maestro's own words: "the Grand Hotel was a fable of wealth, luxury and eastern splendour... on summer evenings it would become Istanbul, Baghdad, Hollywood... you would glimpse ladies' bare backs that looked like gold ... now and again a fragrant breeze would carry syncopated tunes, so languid they could make you faint".
It is a living landmark, one of Rimini's most prized monuments and a protected historical site where heads of state, royalty and other VIPs have stayed.
