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.