Editing Rimini (section)

== Parks and recreation ==
Rimini has an extensive parks system, with 1.3&nbsp;million square metres of parks and gardens inside the urban area<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legambiente.it/sites/default/files/docs/rapporto_eu2013_web.pdf |title = Rapporto Ecosistema Urbano 2013| date=7 December 2020 | page=55| type = [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|language= it}}</ref> and a total of 2.8&nbsp;million square metres of green areas inside the city limits,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legambiente.it/sites/default/files/docs/rapporto_eu2013_web.pdf |title = Rapporto Ecosistema Urbano 2013| date=7 December 2020 | page=56| type = [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|language= it}}</ref> including river parks, sport facilities and natural areas.

The city's park system includes a series of large urban parks, created along the former [[Marecchia]] and [[Ausa (river)|Ausa]] riverbeds, neighbourhood parks and gardens and tree-lined boulevards.

The main parks of the city are [[Liberation Day (Italy)|XXV Aprile]] Park, Giovanni Paolo II Park, Alcide Cervi Park, Fabbri Park, Ghirlandetta Park, Federico Fellini Park, Pertini Park in Marebello and Briolini Park in San Giuliano Mare. Every Saturday, XXV Aprile Park hosts one of the Italy's thirteen (as of 2022) [[parkrun]]s.

In Rimini there are about 42,000 public trees, belonging to 190 different species, predominantly [[Tilia|lime]], [[Platanus|planes]], [[Acer (plant)|maples]], [[Populus|poplars]], [[Pinus|pines]] and [[Quercus|oaks]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.comune.rimini.it/binary/comune_rimini_arengo/news/CensimentoVerdePubblico.1268643245.pdf|title= Il censimento alberi e aree verdi del Comune di Rimini|page= 1|type= [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|language= it|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150120185954/http://www.comune.rimini.it/binary/comune_rimini_arengo/news/CensimentoVerdePubblico.1268643245.pdf|archive-date= 20 January 2015}}</ref> 23 of these are old trees, protected as "monumental trees" for their age and their naturalistic value, such as the [[Platanus × hispanica|London plane]] of piazza Malatesta, the [[downy oak]] of Giovanni Paolo II Park, the [[Cupressus sempervirens|cypresses]] of Sant'Agostino, the [[elm]] of Viale Vespucci and the [[Tilia platyphyllos|lime]] trees of San Fortunato.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.gevrimini.it/drupal/sites/default/files/Alberi_monumentali.pdf|title = Alberi monumentali e di pregio del Comune di Rimini| page=2| type = [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]|language= it}}</ref>

The city's cycling network is articulated inside the main parks and boulevards, linking the most important monuments, tourist attractions, beaches, meeting places, offering various opportunities to different use categories, including urban travels, mountain bike and cyclotourism.

The urban cycling network is connected, through XXV Aprile Park, to the cycle route which links Rimini and Saiano, along the river [[Marecchia]].

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File:Rimini Parco XXV Aprile.JPG|XXV Aprile Park
File:Rimini Parco Giovanni Paolo II.JPG|Giovanni Paolo II Park
File:Rimini Parco Cervi.JPG|Alcide Cervi Park
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