Cervia Garden City - 38th edition
Period:From April the 23rd to September the 30th
Place: Cervia - Milano Marittima - Pinarella - Tagliata
"Cervia Garden City" has now become the most important exhibition of flowering gardens in Italy. Landscape gardeners form all over the world create this open air exhibition of flowerbeds and gardens using thousands of plants and flowers.
Strollling through the city the gardens can be seen at any time of the day or night .
This event is also an opportunity for comparing and exchanging techniques, methods and new ways of organising public green areas.
Click here for detailed programme
Borgo Marina Romagna Showcase
Period:From May the 13th to September the 9th 2010
Place: Cervia - Borgomarina
Fishermen's district
Borgo Marina Vetrina di Romagna - Romagna Showcase appointments take place on Thursdays starting from 13th May to 9th September: within the fishers'village, restaurants offer special price menus, while a local street market displays organic products and local handicrafts.
CERVIA TURISMO EXCURSIONS - PORTICO DI ROMAGNA
Period:From 14th June to 15th September - every Thursday
THE BEACH MEETS THE HILLS: A MAGIC PLACE FOR YOUR SOUL
In the wintertime the silence and the fascination of the past make Portico look like the set of a Walpole's novel, while in summer the sun and the smile of the people kindle Portico with a light of relax and of warm welcome. Places that you shouldn't miss are: the Maestà bridge, the four watch-towers and -last but not least- the tower and the Portinari palace, where Dante Alighieri and Beatrice Portinari are said to have met. Lovely walks through the old alleys full of flowers and people, refreshing bathing by the riverside "la Chiusa" - place of bathing tourism-will make unforgettable your summer stay in Portico.
Excursion + lunch euro 35,00
children under 6 yeras old are free
Info and reservation at: Cervia Turismo T. 0544 72424 - info@cerviaturismo.it
click here for the detailed programme
ATTACHMENTS:- Portico di Romagna - GB.doc
World Sand Sculptures Championship - 13th edition
Period:From August the 8th to September the 12th 2010
Spires, castles, towers standing out against the clouds, figures that seem about to come to life any minute. We’re not talking about the latest Walt Disney movie but about the World Sand Sculptures Championship for Countries taking place every year at Cervia Cervia Beach Park, the big beach stadium placed on the public beach. Forget about works of art made with brushes, colours and clay! Art can also be expressed through sand, provided that the grains are amalgamated with plenty of water and creativity. In Cervia different countries from all over the world come together, discovering the importance of simplicity. As Oscar Wilde put it, simple pleasures are the last resort of complex souls. So, about twenty champions divided into ten twosomes from all over the world meet on the Adriatic coast in a stadium that can host over 2,000 spectators – the only stadium in Italy capable of hosting beach games. Grain by grain they will ‘build’ an unforgettable event. This event – unique for Italy – is part of other important world ‘sand sculptures’ events organized in the U.S. and in the East. Among the participant countries that took part in the previous editions of Cervia's championship: the U.S., Morocco, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Netherlands, India. Italian artists are also well represented.
Salt Festival - 14th edition
Period:From September the 10th to the 12th 2010
Although nowadays salt is one of the most common ingredients on our table, in the past it used to be so rare and precious that people used to call it 'white gold' because it was fundamental for the preservation of food.
Therefore it is easy to imagine how Cervia was linked with this product and with its over 800 ha of saltpans.
The purpose of this event is to remember and celebrate Cervia's past and 'dedicate' a celebration to the precious salt, re-enacting the past traditions and proposing various themed attractions: exhibitions, historical re-enactment of the traditional salt delivery, music and performances.
European Market - 7th edition
Period:From September the 17th to the 19th 2010
Piazza Andrea Costa
In the old city centre of Cervia, for an entire weekend, shopping becomes international and offers an opportunity to know cultures and customs from various European countries. More than 100 street traders from all over Europe and other regions of Italy come together in Cervia to propose typical food and handicraft products of their places of origin. This event that has been hosted over the years by cities such as Manchester, Saragossa, Florence and Trieste, took place for the first time in Strasbourg in 1990.
Entente Florale Europe
Period:From September the 24th to the 26th 2010
Cervia is the first italian city to host the Award Giving Ceremony, the prize-giving ceremony within the very important Entente Florale Europe competition granting merits to green culture and environmental care in Europe.
International Sprint Kite News - 20th edition
Period:From September the 25th to the 26th 2010
Cervia - free beach
The International Sprint Kite News is becoming more and more popular for stunt kites lovers. Stunt kites and all sort of traction kites swarm in the sky of Cervia beach. It is also a good opportunity to spend a wonderful weekend on Cervia's wide beaches that have been expressly turned into a flight area for stunt kites. The event, part of the schedule of Cervia Volante Club, is meant to gather and confront all the followers of this peculiar sport, which has been growing and growing over the past years. The event is dedicated to Kite-Surfing (the kite-flyer ploughs the waves on a surf-board pulled by a kite), Kite-Jumping (the long jumper hangs on a kite) and Buggyng (a sort of trike pulled by one or more kites). The athletes of these sports are required to know the conditions of the wind and be well aware of their physical strength, since the kite, given its big size, has a very big drawing power. The event commemorates the tradition of the handicraft kite, loved by all children, but also displays the applications that such a flying dream can offer thanks to the development and use of technological materials and engineering. Each year Italian and foreign kite flyers long for this event, a big non-competitive open-air amazing exhibition.
