It is well known that Federico Fellini’s cinema is largely built on his memories of Rimini from childhood and youth.
The Maestro always maintained a strong bond with his city, which honors him with many places and events. Starting with the Federico Fellini Foundation, located at Via Oberdan 1, in the director’s family home, which houses his library and various materials, including a large number of drawings. In 2003, ten years after his death, the Foundation dedicated a Museum to the Maestro, located on the ground floor of the same building, which periodically hosts exhibitions and events on many aspects of his artistic career.
Since the end of 2007, at the Museum, visitors can also browse the Book of Dreams, a “oneiric diary” of about four hundred illustrated drawing sheets, commented on by Fellini himself.
Continuing the itinerary, a few hundred meters away on Via Gambalunga, there is the municipal film archive, which preserves films, videos, drawings and posters of Fellinian films.
“Rimini – the Maestro wrote – is a dimension of memory”, and Amarcord spread across the world the characters and places of his childhood: the Saraghina, Gradisca, Pataca, the crazy uncle, La Volpina, Ronald Coleman, Titta, Don Balosa, the tobacconist, the vitelloni… the Fulgor cinema.
The Grand Hotel, the central square, the café, the port with the pier (known as the “palata,” winter destination of the Vitelloni and the stage of pranks by “Scurezza“, the motorcyclist from Amarcord), the beach, the sea, stage of the majestic ocean liner Rex.
