Grand Hotel Rimini

Rimini, Italy. Located on the Adriatic seafront, facing its own beach — the only hotel in Rimini with a private beach.

Grand Hotel RiminiRimini, Italy

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Practical information

172 rooms: 121 in the Liberty-style historic building, including Fellini’s former suite, and 51 in the Residenza Parco Fellini across the street.
Gourmet restaurant La Dolce Vita, Otto e Mezzo on the beach and the Grand Hotel terrace and garden.
Dolce Vita Spa, private beach, and a conference centre next door.
Located on the Adriatic seafront, facing its own beach — the only hotel in Rimini with a private beach.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

7 March 1906
Mayor Camillo Duprè signs a contract in Milan for a luxury hotel to draw upmarket visitors alongside Rimini’s Kursaal baths.
1 July 1908
Designed by Paolito Somazzi and built in under two years, the Liberty-style Grand Hotel is inaugurated.
14 July 1920
A major fire destroys the façade’s two domes; 17-year-old scout Anacleto Ricci dies helping guests escape.
30 April 1931
The municipality buys the hotel from the Banco di Napoli; in the 1930s Clara Petacci, Mussolini’s mistress, stays here.
1939 – 1945
The hotel is occupied first by German, then by Allied military commands.
1950s
The hotel hosts an annual hotel fair from 1949 and four editions of Miss Italia.
1963
Pietro Arpesella, a friend of Federico Fellini, buys the hotel; once famous, the director often stays in suite 315.
1973
Fellini immortalises the hotel in Amarcord, though he films a replica built at Cinecittà.
3 August 1993
Fellini suffers a stroke in suite 316 during his last stay; he dies in Rome that October.
1994
The Grand Hotel is recognised as a national monument.
2007
Antonio Batani buys the hotel for €65 million; it is now run by Batani Select Hotels.