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Riccione: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Viale Dante Alighieri 2, Riccione.

Riccione, the beach, Viale Ceccarini and summer homes

Riccione lives off the sea. The municipality covers a stretch of the Romagna coast between Rimini and Misano Adriatico and is almost entirely built up: hotels, villas and apartment blocks near the beach, and the neighbourhoods where people live all year further inland, beyond the Bologna-Ancona railway. The main shopping street, Viale Ceccarini, runs from the station area down to the seafront.

Buyers first need to decide which Riccione they want. Close to the beach many flats are second homes or summer lets, full for three months and empty for the rest of the year. Inland districts are lived in year-round, with local schools and shops, and the noise of summer nights fades. There are a great many bars and restaurants: 492, or 14.28 per 1,000 residents against 8.32 across the province of Rimini. The railway station and the A14 motorway junction make it easy to reach Rimini and Bologna without using the seafront road.

Istat, the Italian statistics office, counted 34,465 residents in 2023, down 0.2% since 2011, so the population is essentially stable. Riccione holds 10.1% of the province's residents and is older than average, with a mean age of 48.5 against 46.6 and over-65s at 26.9%. Households are small, 2.10 people on average, and foreign residents make up 9.5%.

Like the rest of the province, Riccione is in seismic zone 2 on the Civil Protection scale, with an expected ground acceleration in the built-up area of about 0.184 g. Many coastal hotels and small blocks date from the post-war tourist boom. Before buying, ask for the construction date and any structural work, and for old guesthouses converted into flats, check that the change of use was properly authorised.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the land registry maps, so the report can trace an address to its plot. The Rio Melo and the other small streams running to the sea, together with the closeness of the beach, are what to check for flooding, one address at a time.

Key points

  • Romagna coast between Rimini and Misano, many second homes near the sea.
  • 34,465 residents in 2023, average age 48.5.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.184 g.
  • 14.28 bars and restaurants per 1,000 residents.

Overview

Riccione is a municipality in the province of Rimini, in Emilia-Romagna. At the end of 2023 it had 34,465 residents, the second most populous in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Riccione is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. All 27 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.184 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Riccione, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the number of residents is nearly unchanged. The estimated average age is 48 years, higher than the province average (47). 27% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 25%). Foreign residents make up 9.5% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Riccione declared an average taxable income of 22,921 euros, in line with the province (22,480 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Riccione is in climate zone E, with 2,148 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 15 October to 15 April, for up to 14 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 12 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Riccione has 23 schools and 13 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 29 grocery shops and supermarkets, 30 healthcare facilities, 63 sports facilities and 15 parks and green areas.

There are 0.9 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.6).

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 52.0% of the land in Riccione, compared with 12.6% in the province and 9.0% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Riccione is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Emilia-Romagna in 2026. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Riccione, and 4 more have been cleaned up or closed. The report tells you whether one is close to the address.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Riccione: the report checks the address against the ISPRA maps.

House prices

The Revenue Agency's price ranges per square metre (OMI) apply to zones, not to whole municipalities: the report gives the range for the address's zone.

Land registry

The cadastral maps for Riccione are public: from the address the report finds the sheet and parcel number.

Liveability area by area

The Vicinalia liveability index runs from 0 to 100 and looks at the place, not the people who live there: services within walking distance, transport, green space, natural hazards, air, quiet, buildings and connection. Here it is worked out at the centre of each of the 160 inhabited census areas in Riccione. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 68 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 1.8%
  • fair 35.9%
  • good 61.8%
  • very good 0.4%

Vicinalia index by census area, licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: IdroGEO ISPRA (2026), Istat, INGV, EEA, AGCOM, Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.

The colour is the value at the centre of the area. For an exact address, search for it above: the free check looks at that exact point. How the index is worked out

Data sources

ISTAT code 099013. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.