Riccione Championships. Riccione is linked with the nearby city of Rimini by the Rimini–Riccione trolleybus line and it is linked to the main cities by train, to Bologna (northbound) and to Ancona (southbound). The nearest airport is the Federico Fellini Airport in Miramare di Rimini, which is only a couple of kilometres () from Riccione. Federico Fellini Airport links Riccione to the main European cities. Riccione Riccione (; ) is a "comune" in the Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. Riccione had an estimated population of 34,868. The oldest archaeological findings in Riccione's area date to the 2nd century BC, although
Rimini several months, and with his son Sigismondo Malatesta held a rule which looked tyrannous even for the time. Pope Adrian VI expelled him again and gave Rimini to the Duke of Urbino, the pope's vicar in Romagna. In 1527 Sigismondo managed to regain the city, but in the following year the Malatesta dominion died forever. At the beginning of the 16th century, Rimini, now a secondary town of the Papal States, was ruled by an Apostolic Legate. Towards the end of the 16th century, the municipal square (now Piazza Cavour), which had been closed off on a site where the