Vacation home · Via Leonardo da Vinci 78 · 47043 Sant'Angelo di Gatteo (FC)
Casa Plac is in Sant'Angelo di Gatteo, inland, a few minutes from the coast. The beach is five minutes away through the fields; the other way, in under twenty minutes, the hills begin.
An address on its own says little to someone who isn't from here. What counts is what opens up around you, and in how many minutes.
Casa Plac in the middle, the sea top right, and each ring ten minutes by car.
The sand is 5 minutes away and the motorway exit 3. Ten gets you to Cesenatico, fourteen to Bellaria, seventeen to Santarcangelo.
Rimini and Cesena are both twenty-three minutes away, in opposite directions. That's why a week here doesn't turn into the same day seven times over. What the house is like
The sea, the motorway exit, the cities, the parks, the hill towns. Every day begins and ends in the same place.
From 5 to 33 minutes
Gatteo a Mare is sand and Blue Flag 2026. You go in the morning, come back for lunch, and go again in the afternoon.
Ten minutes to Cesenatico, eleven to Villamarina, fourteen to Bellaria-Igea Marina, twenty-four to Cervia, where behind the sun loungers a salt marsh opens up with flamingos. These beaches are not alike: the one with the play areas isn't the one with the loud music.
The sea, beach by beach
3 minutes
It's called Valle del Rubicone, and it's the town's own exit. On a Friday evening you come off the motorway and three minutes later you have the keys in your hand.
From there the A14 takes you to Rimini and to Cesena, in opposite directions, and down to Ravenna. Parking under the flat is free, and on request, for an extra charge, there is also a private street-level garage.
The historic boats with their coloured sails, moored in the canal harbour.
10 minutes
Ten minutes: you eat fish on the canal, walk among the boats and come back here to sleep.
The boats moored in the middle of the canal are the floating section of the Maritime Museum, and the layout of the harbour is tied to the survey Leonardo da Vinci made of these coasts in 1502.
Cesenatico in a dayFrom 23 to 51 minutes
For an evening in the centre, or for a whole day.
The Arch of Augustus dates from 27 BC and the Bridge of Tiberius, two thousand years old, is crossed on foot today. Riccione, with viale Ceccarini, is twenty-six minutes away.
Cesena is in the opposite direction, also twenty-three: the Malatesta Library has come down intact from the fifteenth century, with its desks, its codices and its chains, and is on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
Cervia, at twenty-four, is a town built from scratch in 1698 on the Pope's orders: the Quadrilatero of the salt workers' houses is still there.
And at fifty-one minutes, Ravenna: with its UNESCO World Heritage Byzantine mosaics and Dante's tomb.
Cities and hill towns, one by one
From 17 to 40 minutes
When the sea isn't enough any more, there are eight parks. The slides at Aquafan are not the dolphins at Oltremare, and Italia in Miniatura is not Mirabilandia: each has its own age.
The furthest is Safari Ravenna, forty minutes away: you leave after breakfast and you're back for dinner. There's also Atlantica in Cesenatico (17), Fiabilandia (25) and the Cattolica Aquarium (34).
42 minutes · 41.7 km
Forty-two minutes, and the day looks like no other of the week.
It is another country, with its border post and the three towers on Monte Titano. The old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and from up there you can see the coast you set off from.
What there is around
From 17 to 47 minutes
Behind the coast the hills begin: seventeen minutes, and the landscape is a different one.
Santarcangelo is seventeen minutes away and has a second town underneath the houses: over a hundred and fifty caves dug into the hill. Longiano at eighteen, with its Malatesta castle and the plain visible all the way to the sea. San Leo at forty-seven: the fortress on top of the crag where Cagliostro died a prisoner. The road is all bends, and up here the time on the clock is the time it takes.
Eight days already planned
The Valle del Rubicone exit is the town's own: three minutes at most. If you arrive on Friday evening and leave on Sunday, that's extra holiday on every trip.
By car
From the A14 Bologna-Ancona, exit at Valle del Rubicone: three minutes at most. Coming from the north, the alternative is Cesena Nord, 20.7 km away. Parking at Casa Plac is free, with a private street-level garage on request for an extra charge.
By train
The nearest station is on the Adriatic line, between Cesenatico and Bellaria, 6.8 km from the house. For the last stretch you'll need a lift or a taxi. From there, with no changes, you can reach Cesenatico, Rimini, Riccione, Cattolica and the stop for Mirabilandia. Cesena is 21 km away, Rimini 26.
By plane
Bologna Marconi has the most flights: 107 km, an hour and a quarter, all on the motorway. Forlì is closer, 41 km and 34 minutes. Rimini Fellini is 32 km away, but the road is slow: allow three quarters of an hour. Ancona Falconara: 114 km.
In August, on weekends and during trade fairs, travel times get longer. Check-in times, keys and parking
The same distances, read according to the reason you're coming.
Five minutes from the beach means coming home for lunch and a nap, and going back in the afternoon. The pharmacy is just 3 minutes away, the supermarket 2.5 km: with a small child, the difference between a problem and an errand. The seaside with children
In the evening you choose between the canal harbour at Cesenatico, ten minutes away, and Santarcangelo, seventeen; then you come back to a hamlet where nobody goes past after eleven. What there is around
You change direction every day without repacking: the sea to the north and to the south, the parks towards Riccione and towards Ravenna, the cities and hill towns inland. The long guides in the journal
The motorway exit three minutes away, free parking under the house (or a private garage on request, for an extra charge), and the places people drive to Romagna for: Rimini Fiera and the Palacongressi at twenty-two minutes, Technogym Village at seventeen, the Cesena trade fair at twenty-three. Ask before you set off
Forty-seven places, by category: open the one you need.
Distances by car, measured on the OpenStreetMap road network in August 2026, without traffic. What there is to see in each of these places
You don't need to get on the motorway to buy bread.
We're in the municipality of Gatteo, not in Gatteo a Mare: the pharmacy is just 3 minutes away, and the supermarket 2.5 km, four minutes by car.
On foot the supermarket is a good half hour. The centre of Gatteo, with its castle, is 4.3 km away, seven minutes. What Gatteo is
The market is the simplest way to shop the way people do here: fruit and vegetables, and you cook dinner at home. The Sant'Angelo di Gatteo market is held on Wednesday mornings, in Piazza Arturo Fracassi, here in our hamlet.
Days and locations from the municipal websites and the Emilia-Romagna Region's trade observatory, verified in August 2026. In summer the streets change in Gatteo a Mare.
Tell us your dates and we'll tell you if it's free. If you're still deciding, tell us where you're setting off from: we'll point you to the best route, where to leave the car, and what time is best to arrive.
The public ratings, on two platforms
Scores recorded on 22 August 2026, on Booking and on Airbnb. Who is behind Casa Plac