Great Basketball, Typical Wines, Cinema and Much, Much More.
Roseto degli Abruzzi is an active and pulsing city, which has always linked its name to important international cultural and athletic manifestations. The Main event in Roseto is the basketball tournament "Trofeo Lido Delle Rose", the oldest European summer tournament and maybe even the oldest in the world, which has been held since 1945. Many anecdote are linked to the "Torneissimo" along with some important pages of basket ball world wide, since the end of the war to today, such as the first time Italy defeated the Soviet union, in Roseto the 7 August 1976. Other than the "Trofeo Lido delle Rose", the city has by now consolidated other numerous athletic manifestations, such as mini-basket tournaments and juvenile football, roller-skating manifestation, international beach volley games and fishing championships. It is a 360° athletic city.
In the cultural field, Roseto is active, every summer, with painting exhibitions that are held at the Villa Comunale and with the "Roseto Opera Prima" Cinema Festival, that during the years has seen the presence of important guests, such as: Alberto Sordi, Massimo D`Apporto, Giuliano Gemma, Tinto Brass, Florinda Balkan and Stefania Sandrelli.
The link between culture and gastronomy is very felt, and has produced, for more the thirty years, "la Mostra dei Vini Tipici" (The Exhibition of typical wines) in Montepagano, a fascination village fair that is held over many nights in the village and allows its visitors to taste the typical local products.
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