Aviation Museum: tickets, opening hours and tips

The Aviation Museum is a large open-air park in the first hills behind Rimini, at Sant'Aquilina, along the expressway to San Marino. Over some 100,000 square meters of lawns stand more than fifty original aircraft, together with armored vehicles and anti-aircraft guns.

A path of more than two kilometers runs past the planes, many of them key players in the tensions of the postwar years: the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the American Phantom, the Soviet MiGs, a G.91 of the Frecce Tricolori. On the ground, a T-55 tank and a SCUD missile stand out.

The indoor pavilion holds uniforms, flight suits, photos and medals, including the Tuta Atlantica, the suit linked to the 1933 transatlantic flight. The same park is home to the Museum of Historic Model Aircraft and a study center on the Gothic Line.

Among the planes there is also one that belonged to Clark Gable, which carried Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, John and Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.