Rimini travel guide, in your ear
Italy's Adriatic riviera capital, 15km of golden beaches, a Roman arch and bridge, the birthplace of Fellini, and the historic Tempio Malatestiano.
- 20 narrated stops
- ~1 hour of stories
- 6 languages
- Offline ready
What is the Gingerguide Rimini tour?
It is a self-guided audio walking tour of Rimini, Italy, inside the Gingerguide travel guide app. The tour maps 20 sights and tells the story of each one in a two to three minute narration with a lifelike AI voice. When the story is not enough, ask the built-in AI guide about the place and keep the conversation going. Everything is available in six languages and works fully offline after a one-time download.
About Rimini
Rimini lives two lives at once. In summer, by day, it is Italy's great beach: miles of golden sand, ranks of umbrellas, and sunburnt joy along the warm Adriatic. But walk a few streets inland and you are in a Roman city two thousand years old. Rimini has been sending people to this shore to enjoy themselves since the age of the emperors.
Rome founded it in 268 BC as Ariminum, where two great roads met: the Via Flaminia up from Rome and the Via Emilia striking off to the northwest. It was the gateway to northern Italy, the first town Julius Caesar took after crossing the river Rubicon just to the north. Much later the Malatesta lords, brilliant and ruthless, ruled here and left the city a strange and beautiful cathedral.
Rimini also gave the world Federico Fellini. The great director grew up on this seafront and spent his life re-dreaming it: its grand hotel, its characters, its foggy winters and endless summers. He never really filmed here; he rebuilt Rimini from memory, again and again, on screen. Today the resort runs for miles down the coast into Riccione, a nonstop summer of beach clubs that has drawn Italy for over half a century.
The old city rewards a wander. A great arch that the emperor Augustus raised as a city gate still stands after two thousand years, and a Roman bridge finished under Tiberius is still crossed on foot today. At the heart of town, the architect Alberti wrapped a cathedral in the marble skin of a Roman temple, a monument to Sigismondo Malatesta that was left forever unfinished. And a museum now honors Fellini among the streets he loved.
End the day on the seafront as the sun goes down. The light turns violet over the old town, the beach bars begin to glow, and music drifts along the shore. For two thousand years, people have come to Rimini to walk this beach at dusk. It still knows, better than almost anywhere, how to send you home happy.
One day in Rimini
A simple way to walk the highlights, following the route order in the app. Swap anything; Rimini rewards detours.
Afternoon and evening
What to see in Rimini: all 20 stops
Every place below has its own narrated story in the app, and its own answers when you want more. Walk them in any order; the map shows what is around you.
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Tempio Malatestiano
A Gothic Franciscan church transformed into Italy's first Renaissance monument by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450, commissioned by Rimini's brilliant and ruthless lord Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.
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Arch of Augustus
Built in 27 BC, the Arch of Augustus is the oldest surviving Roman arch in Italy, erected to honour Emperor Augustus and marking the northern terminus of the Via Flaminia.
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Tiberius Bridge
A five-arched Roman bridge over the Marecchia river, begun under Augustus and completed under Tiberius in 21 AD, still carrying daily traffic after two thousand years.
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Piazza Tre Martiri
The former Roman forum of ancient Ariminum, where Julius Caesar famously addressed his troops in 49 BC after crossing the Rubicon, today a lively central square with a medieval clock tower.
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Piazza Cavour
Rimini's medieval civic heart, dominated by the 13th-century Palazzo dell'Arengo and the 14th-century Palazzo del Podestà, and graced by the 1543 bronze Fontana della Pigna.
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Federico Fellini Museum
An immersive multi-building museum opened in 2021, celebrating Rimini-born director Federico Fellini, creator of La Dolce Vita, 8½, and Amarcord, spread across Castel Sismondo and the historic Palazzo del Fulgor.
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Grand Hotel Rimini
A magnificent Belle Époque palace built in 1908, the most famous hotel on the Adriatic Riviera and Fellini's lifelong emblem of glamour and unattainable dreams, immortalised in the film Amarcord.
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Castel Sismondo
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta's fifteenth-century fortress at the edge of the old city, built between 1437 and 1446, now housing part of the Federico Fellini Museum.
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Rimini Beaches & Adriatic Riviera
Fifteen kilometres of golden Adriatic sand, lined with over a thousand beach clubs, the stabilimenti balneari, making Rimini Italy's most famous seaside destination since the Victorian era.
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Domus del Chirurgo
An excavated Roman doctor's house from the 2nd–3rd century AD, displayed under a modern glass pavilion in the city centre, containing the largest collection of ancient surgical instruments ever found in one location.
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Republic of San Marino
The world's oldest republic, founded in 301 AD by Saint Marinus on the summit of Monte Titano, just 25 kilometres from Rimini, a UNESCO World Heritage microstate surrounded entirely by Italy.
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Gradara Castle
A perfectly preserved 13th-century medieval fortress 20 kilometres north of Rimini, forever associated with the tragic lovers Paolo and Francesca, immortalised by Dante in the Inferno.
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Piadina Romagnola
The emblematic flatbread of Romagna, made from flour and lard on a terracotta disc, filled with squacquerone cheese or prosciutto, one of Italy's most beloved street foods and an EU-protected regional speciality.
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Rubicon River
The small river north of Rimini that Julius Caesar crossed with his army in 49 BC, triggering the Roman Civil War, giving the phrase 'crossing the Rubicon' to every language in the world.
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Riviera Romagnola Nightlife
The Italian Riviera between Rimini and Riccione is Europe's legendary summer dance coast, home to some of Italy's oldest and most celebrated clubs, drawing millions of visitors each summer.
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Museo della Città
Rimini's main civic museum, housed in a seventeenth-century former Jesuit monastery, containing outstanding Roman collections, medieval art, and paintings by Ghirlandaio and Giovanni Bellini.
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Via Flaminia: Ancient Roman Road
The great Roman consular road built in 220 BC connecting Rome to Rimini (Ariminum), 320 kilometres of engineered road that served as the spine of Roman Italy for over a thousand years.
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Aquafan Water Park, Riccione
Italy's largest and most celebrated water park, located in Riccione 5 kilometres south of Rimini, featuring wave pools, slides, and Adriatico park for a complete summer day experience.
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Romagna Food & Wine Culture
The rich culinary tradition of Romagna, home of piadina, strozzapreti pasta, ragù alla romagnola, passatelli in brodo, and Sangiovese wine, one of Italy's most distinctive and satisfying regional food cultures.
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Ariminum: Roman City Walk
Rimini (ancient Ariminum) was one of the most important cities of Roman Italy, a concentrated walk through the Arch, the Bridge, the Forum, and the excavated remains brings two thousand years of continuous history to life.
Three things most visitors miss
Tempio Malatestiano
Pope Pius II publicly burned a straw effigy of Sigismondo Malatesta in Rome in 1462 and declared him condemned to Hell, one of the very few 'anti-canonisations' in papal history.
Arch of Augustus
The Arch of Augustus still preserves four relief medallions (clipei) depicting the Roman gods Jupiter, Neptune, Apollo and Minerva in the spandrels above its single archway.
Tiberius Bridge
The Tiberius Bridge has never been structurally rebuilt in two thousand years, it survived the devastating Allied bombing of Rimini in 1944 that destroyed most of the city.
Rimini tour: questions and answers
Do I need a tour guide in Rimini?
Not a human one. Gingerguide covers Rimini with 20 narrated sights, so you get the stories a guide would tell, at your own pace and on your own route. And if a story leaves you with a question, you can ask the built-in AI guide and discuss the place right there, the way you would with a guide.
How many stops does the Rimini audio tour have?
The Rimini guide covers 20 sights. Each one has a researched story of roughly three minutes, about 1 hour of listening in total. You choose the order and the pace; the tour is self-guided.
Does the Rimini tour work offline?
Yes. You can download Rimini in the app, audio, photos, and offline map tiles included. After the download, the full tour works without an internet connection.
Which languages does the Rimini guide support?
Every Rimini narration is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Turkish, and Chinese. You can switch the language in the app at any time.
Is the Rimini audio guide free?
The Gingerguide app is free to download, and Rimini includes a free preview: you can see all 20 sights on the map at no cost. A premium subscription unlocks the full stories, audio narration, and the offline download.
Hear Rimini tell its own story.
Preview all 20 Rimini stops free in the Gingerguide app.