By car
Valle del Rubicone exit
From the A14 Bologna-Ancona, exit at Valle del Rubicone: 4.2 km, about six minutes. Coming from the north, the alternative is Cesena Nord, 20.7 km away. Parking at Casa Plac is free.
Via Leonardo da Vinci 78 · 47043 Gatteo (FC)
In the middle, not out of the way.
Casa Plac is in Gatteo, inland: not in Gatteo a Mare, which is the hamlet on the coast, 7.3 km away. It sits halfway between the motorway exit and the sea, which is why from here you can reach everywhere in half an hour.
6minutes
A14 exit
Valle del Rubicone, 4.2 km
9minutes
The beach
Gatteo a Mare, 7.3 km
9minutes
The station
Gatteo a Mare, 6.8 km
14minutes
Cesenatico
Porto Canale, 11.5 km
More than where we are,
what matters is what's around you.
An address on its own tells you nothing if you're not from here. What you need to know is something else: what you can reach from this front door, and how long it takes. From here on, this page answers only that.
Romagna, measured in minutes
On the map every place sits in its true geographic direction; the distance from the center shows the minutes it takes to get there by car.
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The advantage isn't being close to one thing.
It's being close to all of them.
Take a house on the seafront and you're close to one beach and far from everything else: in summer, going anywhere means queueing on the coast road. Take the hills and you get the view, and pay for the sea on every trip.
Here the sand is 9 minutes away and the motorway exit 6. Fourteen gets you to Cesenatico or Bellaria, seventeen to Santarcangelo. Rimini and Cesena are both twenty-three minutes away, in opposite directions: that's the symmetry you don't get at the far end of the coast, and it's why a week here doesn't turn into the same day seven times over. What the house is like
Four ways to use
this location
The sea, the theme parks, the cities, the hill towns. They're not four catalogues: they're four different days, all starting and ending in the same place.
From 9 to 33 minutes
The sea
Nine minutes and you're on the sand at Gatteo a Mare, Blue Flag 2026. Eleven to Villamarina. Fourteen to Cesenatico, in front of the canal harbour Leonardo surveyed in 1502, or to Bellaria-Igea Marina. Twenty-four to Cervia, where behind the sun loungers there's a salt marsh with flamingos.
These beaches are not alike: the one with the play areas isn't the one with the loud music, and nobody makes you return to the same parasol for seven days.
The sea, beach by beach
From 17 to 40 minutes
The theme parks
Eight parks, all doable in a day and all different: the slides at Aquafan are not the dolphins at Oltremare, and Mirabilandia is not Fiabilandia. 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).
18minutes
Italia in Miniatura
Viserba di Rimini
24minutes
Aquafan
Riccione
24minutes
Oltremare
Riccione
35minutes
Mirabilandia
Savio di Ravenna
From 23 to 26 minutes
The cities
Rimini is twenty-three minutes away: the Arch of Augustus dates from 27 BC and the Tiberius Bridge still carries traffic after two thousand years. Riccione, with viale Ceccarini, is twenty-six.
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, twenty-four minutes away, is a town built from scratch in 1698 on the Pope's orders: the Quadrilatero of the salt workers' houses is still there.
Cities and hill towns, one by one
From 17 to 47 minutes
The hill towns
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 Marino, at forty-two, is another country, with its own border post and the three towers on Monte Titano. San Leo at forty-seven: the fortress on top of the crag where Cagliostro died a prisoner. The road is all bends, and the time above is the real one.
Eight days already planned
Six minutes,
and you're on the motorway.
The Valle del Rubicone exit is the town's own: 4.2 km, not one of those that leaves you twenty kilometres from your bed. If you arrive on Friday evening and leave on Sunday, that's extra holiday on every trip.
By train
Gatteo a Mare station
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: it's not walkable. 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 or Forlì
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.
All the distances on this page are measured by car on the OpenStreetMap road network, place by place, as of August 2026. They're not rough estimates. In August, on weekends and during trade fairs, travel times get longer. Check-in times, keys and parking
Who benefits
from being in the middle
A location doesn't suit everyone in the same way. Here's who it really works for, and with which numbers.
Families
Nine minutes from the beach means coming home for lunch and a nap, and going back in the afternoon. Supermarket 2.5 km away, pharmacy 3.1: with a small child, the difference between a problem and an errand. The seaside with children
Couples
In the evening you choose between the canal harbour at Cesenatico, fourteen minutes away, and Santarcangelo, seventeen; then you come back to a hamlet where nobody goes past after eleven. What there is around
People who want to see things
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. None of these trips takes more than fifty minutes. The long guides in the journal
People travelling by car
The motorway exit six minutes away, free parking under the house, 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
All the distances
Forty-seven places measured one by one, not guessed at. They're grouped by category: open the one you need, without scrolling through the others.
The sea
eight places · 9–33′
Gatteo a Mare the beach, Blue Flag 2026 · 7.3 km9′
Villamarina di Cesenatico 7.4 km11′
Cesenatico, centre Piazza Andrea Costa · 11.5 km13′
Cesenatico, Porto Canale 11.5 km14′
Bellaria-Igea Marina 11.9 km14′
Cervia 19.1 km24′
Milano Marittima 22 km28′
Cattolica 41.7 km33′
Just down the road
six places · 4–11′
Supermarket Sant'Angelo · 2.5 km4′
Pharmacy Sant'Angelo · 3.1 km5′
Gatteo the town and the castle · 4.3 km7′
Gambettola 4.3 km7′
Savignano sul Rubicone 7.3 km10′
San Mauro Pascoli 7.3 km11′
The theme parks
eight places · 17–40′
Atlantica Cesenatico · 13.8 km17′
Italia in Miniatura Viserba · 17.9 km18′
Oltremare Riccione · 30.5 km24′
Aquafan Riccione · 30.8 km24′
Fiabilandia Rivazzurra · 27.3 km25′
Cattolica Aquarium 42 km34′
Mirabilandia Savio · 30.1 km35′
Safari Ravenna 31.7 km40′
The cities
six places · 23′–1h 16′
Cesena Piazza del Popolo · 15.9 km23′
Rimini Arch of Augustus · 25.3 km23′
Riccione viale Ceccarini · 32.1 km26′
San Marino 41.7 km42′
Ravenna 50.4 km51′
Bologna 101 km1h 16′
The hill towns
six places · 17–47′
Santarcangelo di Romagna 12.8 km17′
Longiano Malatesta castle · 11.1 km18′
Sogliano al Rubicone 21.3 km30′
Verucchio 25.4 km34′
San Leo 37.2 km · winding road47′
Montegridolfo 56.4 km47′
Motorway, trains and airports
nine places · 6′–1h 17′
A14 Valle del Rubicone exit 4.2 km6′
Gatteo a Mare station 6.8 km9′
A14 Cesena Nord exit 20.7 km17′
Cesena station 20.9 km21′
Rimini station 26.3 km24′
Forlì Airport 40.7 km34′
Rimini Airport 31.9 km · slow road44′
Bologna Airport 107.5 km1h 14′
Ancona Airport 113.7 km1h 17′
Trade fairs and business
four places · 17–23′
Technogym Village Cesena · 16.4 km17′
Rimini Fiera 20.6 km22′
Palacongressi di Rimini 24.9 km22′
Fiera di Cesena 23.7 km23′
Measured on the OpenStreetMap road network in August 2026, point by point, by car and without traffic. What there is to see in each of these places
The town, for everyday things
You don't need to get on the motorway to buy bread.
How long the shopping takes
We're in the municipality of Gatteo, not in Gatteo a Mare: the supermarket is 2.5 km away, four minutes by car, and the pharmacy 3.1 km, five minutes.
On foot it's a good half hour, so we'd rather give you the distances than say "just a stone's throw away": the center of Gatteo, with its castle, is 4.3 km away, seven minutes. What Gatteo is
The weekly markets
The market is the simplest way to shop the way people do here, bringing home fruit and vegetables instead of yet another dinner out. The Sant'Angelo market is held on Wednesday mornings, in Piazza Arturo Fracassi: you can walk there and back.
Sant'Angelo Piazza Arturo Fracassi — the closest
Wednesday
Gatteo Piazza Antonio Vesi
Thursday
Gatteo a Mare from 7 to 13
Monday
Savignano sul Rubicone historic center, 184 stalls
Tuesday
Cesenatico all year round
Friday
Santarcangelo the big one: 181 stalls in the center
Friday
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.
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Ratings from people who have stayed
Thirty-three public reviews, on two platforms
Booking.com 13 reviews · "Exceptional"
9.7
Airbnb 20 reviews · Superhost
5.0
Location the lowest score on Booking, and still high
9.5
Scores recorded on 22 August 2026. You can read them in full, with real names, on Booking and on Airbnb. Who is behind Casa Plac