RIMINI, Italy--It's the longest white-sand beach in Europe, and during the summer season a dozen scheduled and charter flights arrive every day bearing pale Scandinavians and pallid Dutch for two weeks of toasting. The tan, when they return home, is well worth the (bargain) package price, $1,200 or so, hotel, half-board and round trip airfare included.
Don't hit the beach at night, though, unless you're prepared for moonlight couplings and the pickpochets who prey on the gawkers. If it's nudity you're after, you have three choices. The "sexy disco" clubs, the municipal museum, or late-night tee-vee.
Serious stuff first. At the medieval Castello Sismondo, it's an exhibit titled "Paris, the wonderful years: Impressionism versus Salon." Nudes by Bouguereau and Ingres. Very tasteful. On the tube, it's a mock call-in show with a cast of bored, half-dressed sexpots talking about their private lives. Ho-ho-hum.
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