specific facilities for cycling tourists, including bike hire, cycle storage and tour guides. Events One of the main event in Riccione beaches is La Notte Rosa, literally the pink night, where the city becomes pink. There are parties on the beaches all the night for an entire week end and there are fireworks displays and free concerts. International stamp fair, the first week of September; held in the Palazzo del Turismo. National numismatic exhibition, the first week of September. Ilaria Alpi TV Journalism Award, the first week of June (replaced in 2015 by the Dig Awards, new award dedicated to investigative video journalism). Riccione Theater Award, biennial, last week of June. Riccione TTV - Theater Television Video, biennial, last week of May. Sport From 4 to 15 September 2007, Riccione hosted the World Masters Athletics Championships. From 29 June to 6 July 2007, Riccione (with Rimini) hosted the CSIT championships. Riccione has a new swimming pool with lanes indoors and outdoors. Every year, it hosts international competitions. The city has hosted the FINA World Masters Championships in swimming, diving, water polo, open water and synchronized swimming. Minor sport events are the beach line festival, tennis beach competitions. On the beach there are surf clubs and kitesurf clubs as well. In 2022, it will host the International Lifesaving Federation World Life Saving Championships. The absolute Padel championships have been held in Riccione since 2017. Transportation Riccione is linked with the nearby city of Rimini by the Rimini–Riccione trolleybus line. Since 2019 it has also been connected with a trolleybus that runs on a preferential carriageway built next to the railway site called "Metromare" with 15 intermediate stations between the railway stations of Rimini and Riccione. Is linked to the main cities by train, to Bologna and to Ancona (northbound and southbound, respectively). The Riccione railway station was modernized in 2018 in the northern part, dismantling the third track and updating the platforms of the two tracks, north / south, to high speed. The underpass has also been improved and the rear part completely renovated with an iron and glass structure. The nearest airport is the Federico Fellini Airport in Miramare di Rimini, which is only a few kilometres () from Riccione. The port is a canal port built at the mouth of the rio Melo. The canal port often has draft problems due to silting. On the two piers there are