Understand
[edit]In 1928, with the establishment of the SS16 state road, on the ashes of the Roman road called Via Popilia, which connected Rimini to Aquileia (it took its name from the consul Publius Popilio Lenate, who had it built in 132 BC), the town was thus once again connected to all the other coastal towns. In the year 1934, the Italian Touring Club described "San Mauro al Mare" as a group of villas one km from the new state road, with some shops and a restaurant. The beach at the time was described as 20 to 30 m wide, flat and made up of fine sand with dunes behind it.
Until the end of the 1930s, the town's economy remained mainly linked to agriculture and small-scale coastal fishing carried out with typical planked boats armed with Lug sail (Battane), the tourist activity was still in its infancy.
In the 1950s, tourism development began with the construction of hotels and facilities for holidaymakers; the country's economy became predominantly tourist-based and reached its peak in the 70s.
- 1 Tourism Office (Palazzo del Turismo Arcobaleno), Via della Libertà 6, ☏ +39 0541 346392. 9AM-13PM 15PM-19PM. Tourim Office with outdoor film screening area.
Get in
[edit]By plane
[edit]Federico Fellini International Airport (23.5 km) is connected to Rimini train station by bus no. 9, at the station take bus no. 4 to San Mauro Mare.
Bologna G. Marconi Airport is 112 km away.
By train
[edit]Bellaria train station (2.1 km).
From the train station, go to Viale Panzini on the opposite side of the railways and take bus no. 4 to San Mauro Mare.
Rimini train station (18.9 km).
Outside the station there is the bus stop where you can take bus no. 4 to San Mauro Mare.
By car
[edit]From the A14 motorway, exit at Valle Rubicone (10.4 km) or Rimini Nord (22.5 km) and continue towards SS16, from this road take the San Mauro a Mare exit.
By bus
[edit]The main bus line serving the town is operated by Start Romagna, the line 4 runs along the entire seafront up to Rimini train station. The bus stop is in Piazza della Libertà.
Get around
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On foot
[edit]Getting your bearings is easy; it's a small village, the tourist area is between the railway line and the sea, the area upstream of the train level crossing is mainly residential. San Mauro Mare is divided into two parts by Viale Marina, which begins at the roundabout on at the entrance to the town, and ends with a staircase that leads to the beach. An easy point of reference is the fountain at the end of Viale Marina near the beach. Another point of reference is the Tourism Office in Piazza della Libertà, next to the Stefano Campana Park.
By bike
[edit]On the seafront the local section of the Adriatic Cycle Route (BI6) has been completed, already identified as itinerary no. 6 of the Bicitalia national cycle network project, which extends along the Adriatic coast for approximately 1200 km.
Alongside the Via Romea, there is another cycle/pedestrian path that connects to the Bellaria and Savignano Mare cycle path and allows you to reach also the town of San Mauro Pascoli, all on a reserved lane. Following the cycle path towards Bellaria you reach the cycle/pedestrian path called:”Sentieri per l'Uso” that consist of a cycle/pedestrian path on the riverside that goes up the Uso River from Bellaria-Igea Marina to Santarcangelo di Romagna.
See
[edit]The colours of the sunrise from the steps to the sea on Viale Marina.
Stefano Campana Park. It is named after its designer, the Architect Stefano Campana, inside there is a permanent exhibition of some of his works.
Don Ivo Rossi Park, It was designed by the Gasperini Architetti studio. Inside the bench dedicated to the fable Sentieri di Conchiglie by the poet Bruno Tognoli.
Palazzo del Turismo Arcobaleno, designed by the architectural studio laPrimastanza, it has an outdoor arena for film screenings.
San Mauro Mare appears on the screen for the first time in 1982 in an Italian television (Rai) fiction based on the novel of the same name by Marino Moretti: "L' Andreana", some scenes were filmed at Villa Semprini.
The Future is Woman (1984, drama, directed by Marco Ferreri), some scenes of the film were set at the GEO disco, the discotheque no longer exists, in its place there is the Dipiù supermarket.
I pavoni (1994, drama, directed by Luciano Manuzzi), movie locations were inside the restaurant Il Caminetto.
Vedremo (2017, comedy, directed by Franco Ceredi), the beach houses on the side of Savignano a Mare are the setting for the film's opening scenes.