La Dolce Vita

01 Jun La Dolce Vita

Film director, Federico Fellini, and his iconic films, such as La Strada, 8 ½ and La Dolce Vita, are shorthand for cool and sexy, but his birthplace of Rimini was once considered a little down-at-heel; harsher critics described it as the ‘Southend of Italy’ – all funfairs, cheap tat and beaches packed full of holidayers who, in spite of every health warning, still consider that it’s not a holiday unless your extremities are pink and peeling.