The Bellaria name appears for before the time in a document of 1359 to define a fortified small farm that it was found near the church of Margherita Saint, last in various hands, between which those of the Malatesta, today reconquered from the earth and the scrub of Uso, and recognizable only from the name with which people it calls the place: " E Castél".
Igea Marina. Igea, daughter of Aclepio , God of the medicine, are the the nine hundred name that to first of Vittorio Belli gave to a village from he sand dunes between Uso and Torre Pedrera. Vittorio Belli (1870 - 1953), of Rimini, doctor, descendant from a family of agricultural entrepreneurs and trades them, had conceived a rationally disposed village for vacations, dipped in a pine forest that same it had created seeding thousands of pine nut.
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The city in the green. Sea and nature. The tree-lined tree-lined avenues, the parks and the wide spaces greens to little steps from the sea make of Bellaria Igea Marina a city adapted to one comfortable and calm vacation.
The wide ways overshadowed from the trees indicate, to every hour of the day and of the night, pleasant distances inside of the city and offer multiple occasions for the shopping, the Park of the Gelso, are an area of 25 hectares right in the center city, where plants of high stalk like pines and "roverelle" are alternated to spots in a harmony of colors and scents.
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It occupies the northern angle of the Province of Rimini and is a bathing center between more you notice of the Adriatic. Synonym of health and well-being, ancient center fishing boat, point of ideal union between the sea and hills of Romagna, Bellaria Igea Marina boasts an enviable tourist tradition, than laughed them to the past century. The past lives again with the Saracena tower, symbol of the city and ancient bastion of defense against the raids of the privateers ones, than today it accommodates interesting museums and with the port channel, sin from remote times expression of the dedication and the hard job of the sailors.
The present and the future meet themselves on sure beaches and perfectly equipped, in the elegant street furniture of the city center, isolates ideal for every tourist, in the parks and the systems sportswomen, in the manifestations and events that every gladden year the tourist season.
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The vicinity to the more colorful zones of the hinterland, the hospitality and the politeness make of Bellaria Igea Marina the ideal goal for the lovers of the tradition, the good kitchen and the entertainment, but also of who it wishes to discover new ways to make vacation.
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Its tourist offer is not only made of lodges comfortable to familiar management, equipped beach and places of encounter and entertainment. The recovery of areas natural greens, the valorization of historical buildings, the qualification of spaces and street furnitures - the beautiful Island of the Platani, the pedestrian islands of Igea Marina, Panzini tree-lined avenue, the furnishings of runs aground it them - constitutes the more recent choice for the tourist and echo-compatible development of this city.
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To Bellaria the Island of the Platani and to Igea Marina the pedestrian island along the ways Ennio and Ovid invites to relaxant walks that they make to taste the beauty of city spaces furnishes with oasis style, greens and flower-beds to you multicolors accompanied from the irresistible display windows of the storees.
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The city living. It is of summer that of winter, the street furnitures of Bellaria Igea Marina are true and own "salotti" in the open air. The tree-lined avenue Paul Guides, promenade from Piazza Matteotti to the railway station, is today "the island of the Platani", an oasis of green in the center of the city. In along distance between the secular trees and the garden, they are opened to the curiosity and the numerous possibility of purchase boutiques, stores of handicraft and bookcases. And at last the coffees, an optimal occasion of pause and refreshment.
An other "historical" island is that one of Tree-lined avenue Ennio, the main walk of Igea Marina, from which, through the railway underpass, it is approached the city park directly. Still to Igea we find Via Ovid, elegant restructured, and to Bellaria, Panzini Tree-lined avenue and Via Italy, the road of the Cagnona that door to the sea between two rows of palms and lungomare Cristoforo Columbus, an inserted walk harmoniously between lodges to it and the beach.