| thirties, fabulous and tragic [*] The tour guide treated Rimini by Luigi Gravina released in 1933, the last four years in which Peter Balls (1876-1956) was mayor, and while it is being realized (1932-35) from the majestic seafront square in Tripoli harbor. Balls he wanted to compete with the "Promenade des Anglais" in Nice. Gravina praised the "the splendors of the beach" introduces readers to the life of the Navy, which for "Comfort of strangers' precedes the description of the city. The first seaside resort of Rimini was inaugurated in 1843. In 1868, its management passed to the City (until 1904). The low number of visitors due to lack of hotel infrastructure and entertainment, it fails to cover the costs. Kursaal opened in 1873, "the first of all Italy ', defines the famous Paolo Mantegazza hygienist who is the director. Hydrotherapy was founded in 1876. Will be demolished in 1929. In 1878 Count Roger Baldwin, the mayor unsuccessfully tries to convince some investors Milan to accept the management of private beach. Baldini has not made good business with tourism, has also had to auction off the house. Since 1885, the nobles and wealthy bourgeois from the community begins to give free or cheap, and stretches of beach parcels purchased by the state. In 1908 he opened the Grand Hotel. The City bought it in 1931. On 16 August 1916 earthquake causes serious damage to the city, for which demolished 615 buildings. A calamity worse than the Catholic paper, "The Ausa" appears "Company of the bathrooms." Bankrupt in 1912, it returned in 1926 under management of the Town Hall after more than four years of negotiations. Since 1917, the beach, Riccione, Bellaria, is given in concession to the City. In 1921 the administration has debts of Rimini for 17 million pounds with serious and costly social problems to solve, and little credit from the banks. The City has created a new tourist industry, private individuals have dedicated themselves to building. Losses were promoted by municipal and government bonds. Many peasants from the countryside down to the sea, lured by the "monoculture" bathing "who triumphs in the twentieth century such as Giorgio Conti said basic pages in the history of the city. From 1929 to fly to Milan. In 1932 he inaugurated the railroad to San Marino. The leader of Rimini has awarded a label remained famous: "Reject the rejection of the Romagna and Marche." The Rimini between the two world wars, wrote Nozzoli Guido, was a provincial town in which "the only new work that would change his appearance was not unpleasant to the waterfront 'balls'. [...] It all seemed new, and were the last fringes 800. Rimini hosts 48,315 tourists in 1930. In 1934 are 66,231 (+37%). The foreigners doubled from 1561 to 3402. In the Corriere del Mare "of August 1930, Valfredo Montanari (head of the Tourist Office) writes:" ... we experienced moments of infinite aspirations. [...] The industrial exploitation of Rimini Riviera is not an easy accomplishment. " For the mid-August of 1936, that of Mussolini's picks for the isolation of the arch of Augustus, Kursaal is to organize the first festival of Italian song. "The real success was achieved in the following year," says Gianni Montanari in 1962 Valfredo Bezzi de "Il Resto del Carlino:" On August 5, 1937 five thousand people crowded the grounds of the Kursaal 'was not only "the finest building the city "but also one of the 'characters' who' gave their mark, their voice, their spirit to the story of a Marine who welcomed people of every country." At the end of August 1939, the newsreel No Light 1571 presents the "gay, carefree, healthy life on the beach of all ages" on our beach. From July 1 the trolleybus Rimini-Riccione replaced the electric tramway in 1921. A Miramare calling the airline Prague and Rome. Saturday, September 2, 1939 "The people of Italy," announced: "Italy with arms to the foot." The rest we know. People run away from the "dead city". Rimini is destroyed by the bombings of November 1, 1943 and September 21, 1944. The Republic of San Marino became a "refuge exterminated," as told to the journalist Guido Bruno Ghigi Nozzoli. What September 19, 1944, while fighting for the taking of Borgo Maggiore, get through the lines Acquaviva beating the family dog, Garbo. You should contact the Eighth Army officers who are preparing the "second Cassino." It gives them prisoner and informs them of the "plight of civilians holed up in the galleries." The British command forgoing "leveling of the bombing of San Marino programmed before." The Titan is safe with over one hundred thousand Italian refugees. Nozzoli, then Lieutenant of the Royal Army, wrote in an official document (published by Liliano Faenza in 1994), "I assured the complete absence of German batteries in the perimeter of the city." Luigi Gravina's Guide opens with three brief quotations. Balls warns: Rimini do not have to go back, but "look to the future." There are bucolic verse of fellow physician Bilancioni Domenico (1841-1884). The historian John Maioli defines the city "ancient and modern, of dreams and life." Bilancioni, a former partisan and Carducci in poetry, was among the twenty-eight Republican leaders arrested Aug. 2, 1874 in Rimini, on the Covignano hill, the villa of the industrialist Ruffi Hercules. The group was part of the anarchist Francolini Domenico (1850-1926), husband of Constance Lettimi and bound by fraternal friendship with Giovanni Pascoli. The Rimini Giovanni Maioli (1893-1961) went to the Museo del Risorgimento Bologna. At this historical period he has devoted hundreds of articles and essays, bringing "the contribution of malnote or ignored sources, and examined in depth, "as Antonio notes Mambelli prayer uttered in Rimini June 2, 1962 during the XIII Meeting of Studies Romagnoli. [*] This is the submission to the reprint (ed. Bruno Ghigi, Rimini 2008) Rail Rimini Luigi Gravina appeared in 1933. Antonio Montanari The pictures (a manifesto of Adolfo Busi, 1929) is taken from the site www.balnea.net |
