HOW TO REACH US
Pesaro is located in central Italy, on the Adriatic Coast. The most convenient way to come to the Festival is by train: The station is a 10-minute walk from Piazza del Popolo, the main venue of the event, and 15 minutes from the seaside area where all the event-affiliated hotels are located. Next to the train station, there is also the bus station.
There are 100 km of cycle paths in Pesaro, so cycling is the best way to get around the city.
For those who choose to fly, the main airports are Ancona and Bologna, as well as the renovated Rimini and Forli, which are 30-150 km away and connected to Pesaro by rail.
Those who need to come by car can use the A14 highway., which has an exit toll booth in Pesaro that is about 10 minutes from the city centre. You can then leave your car in the large free car parks around the city centre and then use your bicycle or electric vehicle for the entire stay in Pesaro.
Chiesa della Maddalena
The Maddalena is a centre for performing arts housed in a former monumental church in the heart of Pesaro, converted into a 100-seat theatre space equipped to host dance, music, screenings and conferences.
Piazza del Popolo
Located in between the cardo and decumano of the ancient roman city, Piazza del Popolo is the main square in Pesaro and owes its present structure to various renovation works throughout the centuries. The City Hall building – right next to Teatro Sperimentale – the Prefecture and the Central Post Office overlook the square.
Since 2000, during the Pesaro Film Festival the square becomes a huge open-air cinema for evening projections, hosting up to 800 sits.
Cinema on the Beach
The Cinema on the beach is one of most recent innovations of the Festival. Since 2018, the organisers of the Festival decided to project some movies in the most suggestive location in Pesaro: right next to the sea, on the beach. The audience really appreciates this new location which with its 100 sits offers a unique experience that puts together the magic of the seaside and that of the cinema.
Teatro Cinema
Sperimentale
Built in the same year as the first edition of the Festival and refurbished in 1994, the Teatro Cinema Sperimentale is located in the rear part of the City Hall building. At its entrance visitors can read a quote from the native poet Odoardo Giansanti to whom the theatre is dedicated. Since its foundation, it has become one of the most active places in the city’s cultural life: it is the historical headquarter of the Festival and every year it hosts numerous events such as dance recitals, theatre plays, conferences and concerts.
Inside the building, two theatre-rooms have been built: the Sala Grande (495 sits:355 in the parterre and 140 in the balcony), and a smaller theatre that in 2015, during the 50+1 festival edition was named after Pier Paolo Pasolini. With its 75 sits, it is dedicated to shorter projections and smaller events.
Visual Arts Centre Pescheria
Built by the Municipality of Pesaro at the beginning of the nineteenth century to sell fish, a product that was increasingly important for the city's economy, the Pescheria has now ceased to have its original function. Converted into an exhibition space with strong links to the territory, since 1996 it has been home to the Visual Arts Centre. Since then it has become the most important centre for contemporary art in the Adriatic region and has hosted exhibitions by protagonists of the national and international scene, as well as music, design, theatre and dance events.
Since 2015 it has also been one of the venues of the Mostra del Cinema, dedicated to meetings with authors and the press, and since 2019 it has been home to the archives of the Fondazione Pesaro Nuovo Cinema. In 2021 it hosted the first edition of the Pesaro Film Festival Circus, the new section of the Festival dedicated to children.
Cinema Solaris
It rises from the ashes of the old oratory hall and becomes a jewel in the crown of those who love committed cultural cinema.
Pesaro's Cinema Solaris is the city's historic landmark for arthouse and quality cinema and was the city's first multiplex cinema. The structure is divided into three specific and intimate rooms: Room A: 127 seats. Room B: 96 seats. Room C: 56 seats. All rooms are equipped with Sony 4 K projectors. In terms of visual quality, there is no better room overall as they share the same excellent technological equipment, but Room C (the smallest) offers a more intimate experience, ideal for fully appreciating arthouse films. Solaris is part of the Europa Cinemas network and is recognised by the MiC as a quality theatre.
Palazzo Gradari
Palazzo Gradari and its courtyard represent one of the most lively and animated locations of the Festival.
The building is the headquarter of the Rossini Opera Festival administration and will soon host the University of Urbino. However, during the Festival week, some of its rooms and the courtyard become the home of respectively the organisers’ offices and the night events. In some parts of the building, there are the press and the hospitality offices and the management offices while in the courtyard students and journalists interview directors, meet some guests or produce their works about the Festival. In addition, after midnight and when all the shows are over, the special event Il Muro del Suono takes place in the courtyard. Here, cinema and music blend and give life to special nights of live music and other kinds of experimental performances creating the perfect atmosphere to end a busy day of movies and workshops.
Hospitality
and Refreshment
The Pesaro Film Festival is happy to welcome every year several important guests to whom we offer a comfortable and cosy experience in our city. Following, a list of hotels and restaurants in partnership with the Festival. All the hotels are located in the most vibrant area of the city, the seaside, while the restaurants are in the city centre, a few steps away from the main places of the Festival.
HOTELS
HOTEL SAVOY
Viale Della Repubblica, 22
Telefono: 0721 67440
www.hotelsavoypesaro.it
HOTEL CHARLIE
Viale Trieste, 281
Telefono: 0721 622090
www.charlieinpesaro.it
HOTEL AMBASSADOR
Viale Trieste 291
0721 371527
www.ambassadorpesaro.it
HOTEL BELLEVUE
Viale Trieste, 88
0721 31970
www.bellevuehotel.net
HOTEL MAJESTIC
Viale Trieste, 80
0721 371900
www.hotelmajesticpesaro.com
APAHOTELS
Piazzale della Libertà, 10
0721 67959
https://www.apahotel.it
RESTAURANTS
OVO
Via Tebaldi, 7
Telefono: 353 4472735
www.ovopesaro.it
OSTERIA LA GUERCIA
Via Baviera, 33
Telefono: 0721 33463
www.osterialaguercia.it
RISTORANTE ULDERGO
Via Venturini, 24
Telefono: 0721 68029
www.ristoranteuldergo.com
OPERA, TRATTORIA CONTEMPORANEA DI QUARTIERE
Via Nicola Sabbatini 24
Telefono 379 2144613
www.instagram.com/opera_pesaro