Top UK airport gets new easyJet flights to European region tipped to be big in 2025

EASYJET is launching a caller way betwixt London Gatwick and Rimini, with flights to commencement operating successful April.

The seaside municipality of Rimini is located successful Emilia-Romagna - an Italian portion tipped to beryllium large successful 2025 by Time Out.

Direct services volition commencement operating betwixt the 2 cities from April 16, 2025 - conscionable successful clip for the Easter holidays.

The twice-weekly work volition depart each Wednesday and Sunday, arsenic reported by Travel Weekly.

Tickets aren't presently connected sale, with nonstop formation times and prices yet to beryllium released.

Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK state manager, said: "Rimini from Gatwick is simply a way we person agelong wanted to launch, truthful it’s fantastic that holidaymakers from the southbound and southeast volition present beryllium capable to flight for a formation interruption connected the Adriatic.

"This superb caller formation destination provides UK customers with adjacent much prime for a leisure break, arsenic good arsenic offering a scope of large worth easyJet holidays. We look guardant to welcoming them onboard."

Earlier this year, a squad of question experts astatine Time Out named Emilia-Romagna, the Italian portion wherever Rimini is located, arsenic 1 of the astir underrated places to sojourn successful 2025.

The question experts described Emilia-Romagna arsenic being "all of Italy's champion bits rolled into one" acknowledgment to the region's UNESCO World Heritage Sites, world-class nutrient and sandy beaches.

Skyscanner besides named Rimini arsenic a trending destination past year.

As 1 of the largest seaside edifice towns connected the Adriatic Coast, Brit holidaymakers who similar a time astatine the formation volition bask Rimini.

Rimini has a nine-mile agelong of shoreline, with TripAdvisor describing the metropolis arsenic "a favoured Italian seaside vacation destination for Italians owed to its awesome 9 miles of beaches".

While astir of the formation is private, with hotels and restaurants charging holidaymakers to rent prima loungers and parasols, different parts stay free.

Just similar different Italian cities, Rimini is packed with humanities attractions and places of interest.

One of those is Ponte di Tiberio, a 2,000-year-old bridge, which is somewhat reminiscent of Florence's Ponte Vecchio.

Piazza Tre Martiri, 1 of Rimini's main squares, is location to a statue of Julius Caesar, which has been placed wherever the Roman wide delivered a celebrated speech.

Other past sites see the Arch of Augustus, which was built successful 27BC and the Tempio Malatestiano.

There's besides Borgo San Giuliano, a trendy neighbourhood location to colourful houses and murals.

For thing a spot much modern, there's besides the Fellini Museum, which celebrates filmmaker Federico Fellini, manager of La Dolce Vita.

Be definite to illustration immoderate of the section seafood portion successful Rimini and marque the astir of the inexpensive booze - a vessel of wine costs astir £10 successful a sit-down restaurant.

Staying successful the metropolis isn't excessively costly either, with hotels similar the Royal Plaza disposable from £23 per night, for 2 people.

Rimini is besides adjacent to respective different rising vacation destinations successful Italy, including Ravenna and Bologna.

It's besides an hour's thrust from San Marino, a landlocked state successful Italy.

I besides travelled to another underrated metropolis that's acceptable to beryllium large successful 2025 - and it's said to beryllium the happiest successful the world.

An often-ridiculed city was named 1 of the champion places to sojourn successful 2024 by Time Out.