Three days and two nights in which the ‘land of smiles’ is transformed into a concentration of joy and the pleasure of being together, from the Riviera to the hinterland, from the cities of art to the sea, on days when the daylight hours are the longest of the year.
It will be a billboard of great impact, with big names and surprises capable of transforming every place into a stage, every night into an experience to remember, every dawn into a romantic suggestion.
Almost a hundred events have already been made official, and the programme is set to grow even richer in the coming weeks. Concerts, DJ sets, shows and performances will invade the Riviera, from dusk until dawn, in a collective celebration of music and the desire to be together. With the claim ‘HIT'S Summer’, Pink Night 2025 confirms itself as the festival that launches Romagna's summer, in a long pink weekend embracing the brightest days of the year. An explosion of lights, sounds and energy, a collective ritual that is renewed every year under the banner of music, conviviality, and the desire to be together.
The complete and official calendar of the event will be unveiled over the next few days, as well as the names of the big names in music who will animate the long weekend, but in the meantime, the first previews already promise plenty of fun and surprises for all tastes.
Pink Night for all tastes among sport, wellness, nature and relaxation
In Cervia, on Friday 20 June, one of the most evocative experiences of the entire weekend will be staged: the CerviAvventura adventure park will open its doors at night for a route through the pine trees lit only by headlamps. A challenge in the dark, between courage and magic, to be experienced in small groups to enjoy the silence of nature. Also in Cervia, the MUSA - Museo del Sale (Salt Museum) offers extraordinary evening openings and a workshop for children dedicated to Altero, the pink flamingo, mascot of the 2025 edition, for the entire weekend, from 20 to 22 June. An opportunity to approach the history of the salt pans in a fun and engaging way.
From 20 to 22 June, the waters of Cervia and Milano Marittima will also host the Grand Prix Offshore, a spectacular stage of the World Powerboat Championship. High-speed thrills, DJ sets, markets, and an event within the event: the party celebrating 20 years of Notte Rosa, with music by Radio Studio Delta and DJ Trizza.
In Milano Marittima, on Saturday 21 June, there will also be an exceptional cultural event: the screening of the docufilm ‘La favola di un visionario’ (The tale of a visionary), dedicated to Arrigo Sacchi, with the presence of the coach and the protagonists of his long career.
In Bertinoro, on 21 June, the historical re-enactment of the Mille Miglia motorbike race will stop off, reserved for vintage motorbikes: a slow and fascinating journey through the most beautiful villages in Italy, in the heart of a land that has always been linked to motors.
In Rimini, on Friday 20 June, the eagerly awaited event ‘Un Mare di Rosa’ (A Sea of Pink) returns: the beach from bathing establishment 47 to 63 is transformed into an open-air stage with live music, shows, dance performances, and a grand finale with fireworks synchronised along the entire Riviera. There will also be the most popular formats: Un Mare di Vino (A Sea of Wine), with food and wine tastings by the sea, and Un Mare di Fuoco (A Sea of Fire), with light and flame shows. In Riccione, from Wednesday 19 to Saturday 21 June, the city centre will come alive with the Kids Family Festival in Piazzale Ceccarini: three free days of shows, talks, workshops and activities for children and families. Guests will include Paolo Ruffini, the comic couple Salvo & Giorgia, the Winx musical, the Winx Glitter Party, and a talk by psychotherapist Alberto Pellai. Also in Riccione, the public beach in Piazzale San Martino will host ‘Goovi Summer Wave’ on Saturday 21 June: Michelle Hunziker will lead two training sessions on the seashore together with trainers Paolo Zotta and Vanessa Villa. An appointment under the banner of wellness and self-love, complete with beauty areas, skincare consultations, gadgets and energising cocktails. All with the soundtrack of the Riviera in festa. In Bellaria Igea Marina, a double date with fun: on Friday 20 June, Igea Marina hosts the Carnival in Pink, a night-time parade of allegorical floats and masked parades along viale Pinzon, with confetti, candies, and a great fireworks display at midnight; on Saturday 21 June, the Carnival in Pink moves to Bellaria, along viale Panzini and lungomare Colombo, with a new parade full of colours, masks, and music, to the delight of adults and children alike. On Saturday 21 June, in Misano Adriatico, the Summer Carnival will liven up the seafront with allegorical floats from the villages, shows, and spectacular costumes, in one of the most popular festivals in the area.
In San Giovanni in Marignano it will be the hour of the witches. The most eagerly awaited event, ‘The Night of the Witches’, returns from 19 to 23 June. The summer solstice is getting closer and closer, and the main event in Marignano is once again ready to unveil secrets and magic. This year's edition will be entirely dedicated to time: time travel, ancient rites that become new, the past that returns, the cycle of the seasons, expectation and surprise, but also the suspended time of art and theatre, will be just some of the many scenarios that will characterise ‘’La Notte delle Streghe‘’ for a new and unmissable edition.Finally, a weekend dedicated to cultured music in Ferrara, with the return of PianoEstense from 20 to 22 June: a piano event that will transform some of the city's most beautiful palaces into refined musical salons. Concerts from afternoon to evening, in prestigious venues such as Palazzo Roverella, the Ridotto of the Teatro Comunale, Palazzo dei Diamanti, and many others.
The magic of dawns in pink
Poetic, evocative, exciting: these are the appointments of the musical dawns that, once again this year, will characterise the 20th edition of the Pink Night. Musical journeys with the sun peeping over the horizon, feet in the sand, the colours of the sea, notes caressing the soul.
Gatteo too is tinged with pink, dedicating an entire day to music on the occasion of the Summer Solstice. Saturday 21 June will open with the evocative dawn concert in the courtyard of the Malatesta Castle. At 5.30 a.m., an orchestra of 20 renowned musicians will perform the Summer Solstice Concert with music by Verdi, Rossini, Schubert, Puccini and Tchaikowsky.
Among the events already announced is the one on Sunday 22 June in Cervia: at 6.30 a.m. there will be a boat excursion in the Salina, immersed in silence and nature, followed by a genuine breakfast at the Bar Salino.
In Coriano, also on Sunday, a sunrise walk is planned, starting at 5.30 a.m. from Via Piane, followed by a sun salutation session and a shared breakfast. Dress code: something pink!
On Riccione's Marano beach, at 5.00 a.m., one of the most eagerly awaited events of the summer will be staged: dancer Kledi will perform Ravel's ‘Bolero’, followed by an intimate live performance by Syria, who will stage a poetic and musical show between Italy and Brazil.
In Ferrara, on Sunday 22 June, do not miss the dawn concert in Certosa: ‘In Praise of Madness’. An emotional performance to start the day in the silence and dawning light of the Certosa, immersed in the magical atmosphere created by the Gerhard String Quartet.
Finally, the first light of dawn will also illuminate the hills: in Verucchio, at 5.30 a.m. on 22 June, the parapet of the Rocca Malatestiana will welcome a Hatha Yoga lesson led by Monica Bartolini. A moment of wellbeing and meditation in one of the most evocative places in Romagna.
Concerts and music: a weekend of energy and fun
The heart of the party beats fast in Rimini, where Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June will see the first stage of the RDS Summer Festival, one of the major music events of the Italian summer. Piazzale Fellini will become a huge open-air arena: Olly, winner of the last edition of the Sanremo Festival, will take the stage on the opening night, while on Saturday it will be Fedez's turn. The two evenings, with free admission, will also be enlivened by RDS speakers, including Rossella Brescia and the couple Ciccio & Baz from ‘Tutti Pazzi per RDS’. Shows, music and entertainment in an iconic location for an unmissable two days. Also in Rimini during Pink Night, the only dance floor on the entire Adriatic Riviera will be open: after last year's success, the Liscio Street Parade dance floor in Piazzale Kennedy will be back from Sunday 22 June to Tuesday 24 June. For three days, great orchestras, dance schools, and DJs from the world of ballroom dancing and Romagna folklore will take turns. On Sunday 22 June, from aperitif time until midnight, the Generation Z Orchestra of Liscio Santa Balera and the Big of Liscio Moreno Il Biondo and the Grande Evento Orchestra will take the stage in Piazzale Kennedy. Together with them there will be no less than 10 dance schools. Fun, music and dancing will continue on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 June.
In Cattolica, on Friday 20 June, there will be a more intimate, but no less emotional atmosphere: Francesco Sarcina, the historic voice of Le Vibrazioni, will perform an acoustic live show in Piazzale Primo Maggio, accompanied only by his guitar and the emotions he can evoke.
On the evening of Saturday 21 Riccione will host one of the most elegant appointments of this edition with ‘Magia in movimento’, a dance gala signed by Kledi Kadiu, who returns to his adopted land to direct a refined and international show. Piazzale Roma will become a theatre under the stars, where world-famous dancers and young talents of the Antonella Bartolacci Academy will give life to an evening of pure emotion.
In Misano Adriatico, also on Friday, Paolo Belli, one of the best-loved singer-songwriter and showman of Italian television and music audiences, will take the stage. With his band he will offer an enthralling show in Piazza della Repubblica, which will open the ‘Friday Night - Hit's Summer’ festival. After the concert, everyone will turn their noses up in the air for the big fireworks display, also simultaneously with the entire Riviera.
Fun meets comedy in Gatteo Mare, where on Friday 20 June there will be an evening of laughter with Paolo Cevoli and Duilio Pizzocchi: two different styles, two dialects, one collective laugh. Their show will be a mix of gags, warhorses, improvisation and Romagna satire. This will be followed by dancing with the Revolution Live Band, in a musical journey through great hits from the 1970s to the present day.
In Comacchio, two evenings of entertainment are scheduled on the Porto Garibaldi public beach. On Friday 20 the beach will come alive with a show involving the Civica Scuola di Musica di Comacchio (Comacchio Civic School of Music), then the evening will continue with a cabaret show and at 10.30 p.m. with the concert by Alex Wyse. Everything will end on the notes of the DJ Set by Giusy Consoli, disc jockey, musician and record producer. On Saturday 21 June the evening will be enlivened by Radio Stella's dj set, and at 10.30 pm Le Vibrazioni will perform a leg of their Summer Tour 2025. Porto Garibaldi will be tinged with pink thanks to the contribution of the Consorzio di Commercianti ‘Sì...amo Porto Garibaldi’ (Consortium of Merchants ‘Yes...I love Porto Garibaldi’), with installations and evocative pink decorations (anchors, fish, and flamingos) colouring the streets of the town.
Cesenatico is preparing to experience an explosive weekend of music and fun. On Friday 20 June, Piazza Costa will host the Radio Bruno DJ-set, with the skyscraper lit up in pink and fireworks simultaneously all over the Riviera. On Saturday 21 June, again in Piazza Costa, it will be Clara's turn: the young revelation artist of Mare Fuori and the Sanremo Festival will bring her music to the heart of the Pink Night, projecting Cesenatico into the centre of Romagna's summer.
The stage in Piazza Ariostea in Ferrara will instead be transformed, on Saturday 21 June, into an explosion of rhythm and adrenaline with the arrival of Sfera Ebbasta, the authentic king of the Italian trap scene. The rapper promises a powerful show with a high visual and sound impact, in one of the most eagerly awaited stages of the Ferrara Summer Festival.
In Cesena, on 21 June, Piazza Guidazzi will host the Rockin'1000 Flash Pink Choir, a preview of the celebrations for the 10th anniversary of the most iconic musical project in Romagna, in conjunction with the San Giovanni Fair and the Notte Rosa.
In Ravenna, on the same evening, Mirabilandia Park kicks off its summer of events with the comedy of Valentina Persia, star of the special Comedy Central Live evening.
In Bertinoro, from 20 to 22 June, in Largo Cairoli, the Drinkin' Jazz Festival is on stage: a festival to the rhythm of jazz, born from the collaboration with the Dai de Jazz Association.Great artists and new promises of the Italian and international music scene will perform in the evocative venues of the Balcony of Romagna.