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Cesenatico (Emilia-Romagna, Italy): what to do in the bike-friendly beach resort of Cesenatico

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Italy's Emilia-Romagna has a sun-seeker holiday riviera, Riviera Romagnola , on the Adriatic coast , which stretches from the town of Ravenna down to Rimini .   They are the heaven for Italian ballroom dancing , crazy nights of fun in discos , beach volleyball tournaments, cycling enthusiasts and sailing boat fans . Cesenatico , Rimini, Riccione and Cattolica are the beach resorts towns that come up all the time. However, since the eighties when the crazy summers of the Italian Riviera holidays were very popular, the feeling today is that the Italian Romagna lifestyle have been changing.  Maybe I've changed: the nights on the disco have lost its edge, and have given way to healthier interests such as renting a bike and pedaling the kilometer-long avenues that runs alongside all the Riviera Romagnola beach resorts. As a good Venetian, to me the Riviera Romagnola brings to mind more the long-standing seafaring traditions , especially the one I discovered cycling along the