04. Juli 2014  
Riccione, Italy  
Happy Gymnastics

12. EGF 'Festival del Sole' is completed today ...!

Starting at Sunday, June 29 now the biggest "Gymnastics for All" Festival in the mediterranean aerea, the 12th anniversary of the "FESTIVAL DEL SOLE" will finish today evening with a closing show in Riccione, Italy.
Opened with a big ceremony and a grand parade of all international delegations last Sunday followed five crazy days of colorfull programs of more then 4,500 non-professionel arhletes five arenas and the athlete's village without barriers and age!

The Grand Closing ceremony, on Friday, July 4 in Piazzale Roma, has been included in the program of the Notte Rosa, together with the famous dancers Raffaele Paganini and Annarosa Petri.  

... a top GYMmedia / SCHAEFER-Photo!
Grandiose motion study on the Plaza Ceccarini, before the sun ball - symbol of this joyous stressed and aesthetic movement festival.
(c) Achim Schäfer / gymmedia

The special "Festival Philosophy" ...
Love for the sport, desire to meet with other fans and perform in front of an huge audience to amuse it: these simple ingredients multiplied by 4,800 athletes of all ages and from all over the world visited Riccione from June 29 to July 4.
That is the choreographic recipe of the Festival del Sole, the largest biennial gymnastics event (and all its acrobatic forms) that opens its 12th edition this year.
The Festival confirms itself again as the largest international gymnastics exhibition in the Mediterranean area, polarizing not only the passion of athletes from around the world - from South Korea to Europe, passing through Israel - but also the commitment of UNICEF, Coni, FISAC, Uisp, European Gym Festivals Council (EGF), Riviera Green Passion, all patroning the event together with the Emilia Romagna Region, the Province of Rimini and the Municipality of Riccione.

In addition to istitutional patrons, several federal and amateur sports organizations, schools of dance and gymnastics, will be engaged in a series of events that anticipate and conclude the Festival.
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Also the European Gymnastics Service "GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL" - hosting the EGF-Website (► www.gymfestivals.eu ) - supports this great idea of such a peaceful friendly gathering of like-minded active people.
Our GYMmedia correspondent and photographer Achim Schaefer began in Riccione these impressions and moods in this festival week:

Thousands of peoples witnessed the opening ceremony on the Plaza Roma:


Colourful program contents drenched eyes and ears, as the Italian acrobatic group of muscle-bound men:

At this festival you will find participants and delegations of all age groups, like these happy Italians from Rome:

A lot of acrobatic groups came from everywhere with many creative ideas and high quality:

... from Belgium (Niel), from Aarhus (DEN), from Finland (Ovo Academy Olari)

Happy faces and top performances everywhere...:

... last greetings at the closing ceremony on the Plaza Roma from a
group from Korea ...:

(c) GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL
→  www.gymfestivals.eu

* ... here we found first video clips from the Festival days in Riccione 2014, which demonstrated the impressions this week:
* GYM v i d e o ---: Impressions from Riccione
 
* Youtube (122)

... and an exampel of a performance of a gymnastic group (balls) from Milan:

* Youtube (204)