As one of Rimini's most well-known buildings,[1] the hotel is known for its elegance, classic style, and association with filmmaker Federico Fellini.

[2] Previous guests at the hotel include Max Grundig,[3] Princess Diana, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sharon Stone, and Sophia Loren.

[5] Its construction was contracted to the Società Milanese Alberghi Ristoranti e Affini (SMARA),[4][6] which managed Rimini's nascent seaside industry.

[5] On the afternoon of 14 July 1920, the hotel was engulfed by a major fire, which drew firefighters from as far away as Bologna and military soldiers from Rimini's barracks.

[9] His funeral was a well-attended event in the city;[8][9] Ricci was posthumously awarded a gold medal for civil valour.

Podestà Pietro Palloni entrusted its management to the Società Anonima Immobiliare Adriatica of Bologna, which held it until 1940.

Renato Zangheri, future mayor of Bologna, said that he would play tennis with Petacci in the Grand Hotel's courts during her days waiting for the next meeting.

Its facilities include a bar, restaurant, spa, indoor swimming pool, sauna, and steam room.

On the terraces, protected by curtains of thick plants, we could glimpse the bare backs of women who seemed to be made of gold, entwined by male arms in white tuxedos.

A scented breeze carried us at times with syncopated music, languid enough to faint.The Grand Hotel features heavily in Amarcord (1973),[7][18] which won an Oscar for best foreign-language film in 1974.

[1][13] The suite's previous guests included Petacci, Farouk of Egypt, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Eleonora Duse, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Pietro Mascagni, and Enrico Caruso, who was assigned the suite after asking for a view resembling the Gulf of Naples.

[13] In summer 1993, Fellini stayed at the Grand Hotel after recovering from an operation for abdominal aortic aeurysm in Zurich.

[20] The hotel is the subject of a Romagnol poem by Raffaello Baldini in Ad Nòta (1995);[21] the collection won the Bagutta Prize.