Parties and dance in Terrazza a Mare in Lignano Sabbiadoro

Despite the rain of the previous days and the hazardous weather forecast, the day of Ferragosto the beach of Lignano was completely full. The sun was not so present in these days, but since the morning of Ferragosto shone it on the golden beach and warmed the air.

Tourists staying in hotels and apartments in Lignano were finally able to leave their accommodations and jump immediately to the beach to spend the most important day of summer, the Ferragosto (Assumption), with parties and dinners under the beach umbrella. Children and adults overflowed the sea, despite the water was not so hot…but when you are on holiday at the beach, you must go for a dip and swim! With the passing of the hours, the beach filled up more and more, thanks also to the commuters, who flooded in Lignano since the early afternoon because the good weather and the show of Frecce Tricolori (Tricolour Arrows).

The air show of Ferragosto Viva Lignano 2010 was successful: about 100.000 people from the beach and many others from the terraces of the apartments of apartment blocks in Lignano Sabbiadoro watched the show of Frecce Tricolori. The show started at 5 p.m. with exhibitions of helicopters of Air Force, planes of flying club of Pordenone and other teams including the Audace Team (Audacious Team), the only patrol of motor paraglider in the world.

At 6.20 p.m. was the moment for Frecce Tricolori and their aerobatics, that for 25 minutes caught the attention of all tourists in Lignano Sabbiadoro. It must be said that Frecce Tricolori are at home in Lignano, because in the winter months they train in the sky of the seaside resort. The show of Ferragosto becomes also a way to thank the entire city, that offers its airspace for the winter training. After the acclaimed air show, tourists were back in the water to continue the party for Ferragosto.

Many clubs of Lignano celebrated the Ferragosto with their guests, preparing special meals and offering colourful summer cocktails. Until late at night the pedestrian area in Sabbiadoro swarmed with people and many young people continued the party in the discos of the seaside resort.

Theme parties in swimming pools, in the gardens, marathons of Ferragosto in different discos open until the morning and foam parties in others. And in a well-known café in Lignano Pineta the party was in Christmas theme with also the snow at the end!

All that for the fun of the many young people that chose to spend the holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Stadium in Lignano Pineta, the stage for the 21st International Meeting of Athletics

It comes again the extraordinary meeting of athletics, that every summer draws crowd on the terraces of Teghil stadium in Lignano Pineta. The 21st “Sport Solidarity” International Meeting of Athletics will be Sunday, July 18th at 8 p.m. and it will involve many athletes from all over the world in different specialities.

Since 1994 the international meeting takes place in Lignano Sabbiadoro and it has always a great success both of participants and of crowd. This shows that the seaside resort besides being a beach city, is also a city suitable for high-level sport thanks to its climate, its land and its sport facilities. We remember that Lignano was chosen as the summer home for the preparation of athletes of the Jamaican team, winners of several world and Olympic medals, led by Hasafa Powell.

Just some of the Jamaican athletes took part in the last competitions of the “Sport Solidarity” International Meeting of Athletics of Lignano Sabbiadoro, together with other fast runners of great international level.

At the meeting there is place especially for disabled competitors, which can show their full potential, the competitive and technical merit. Unforgettable was the participation in this regard of Oscar Pistorius, the athlete symbol of disabled people who want to practice sport at high level. The international meeting has also a role of promotion of Sport for Disabled People (Italian Paralimpic Committee and Special Olympics Games) and every year it donates the offerings to the association Comunità del Melograno Onlus. This association has been formed by families of mental disabled people and they are building a facility for the daytime activities and a family home in Lovaria of Pradamano.

Every year the crowd participates with great warmth to this wonderful evening, which is not only a parade of champions, but is a very important moment for all participant to check the preparation in a period full of meetings and competitions. Moreover, the results obtained at the Meeting of Lignano Sabbiadoro are valid for the new personal best and national records.

To reach the Teghil stadium there are different lines of buses that join it with the entire seaside resort. Also tourists that spend the holiday in the centre of Lignano Sabbiadoro have the chance to easily reach the stadium with the buses and so watch the 21st “Sport Solidarity” International Meetings of Athletics.

Special lights for Terrazza a Mare in Lignano Sabbiadoro

The agency Arena offers most of its apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro, the heart of the Friulian seaside resort.
The area of Sabbiadoro is the oldest, the core from which the city has evolved, street after street and house after house, in the seaside resort that many tourists now know. Really the growth and the change of Lignano is not finished and never will end, because both the local government and the private sectors want to offer to the guests a better city every year, with new services, new streets that make easier the internal road traffic, new entertainment for children and adults and new hotels and especially apartments in Lignano. In recent times, have sprung up in Sabbiadoro area several buildings with modern design, particular colours and shapes, which offer apartments tastefully  furnished with spacious balconies from which enjoy the panorama of Lignano.

Sabbiadoro has developed during the Fifties and Sixties together with the tourism boom, with the birth of the mass beach holiday, and consequently, the building boom. In addition to being populated by skyscrapers and apartments, Lignano Sabbiadoro offers to its guests the energy of a seaside resort. This area is the favourite by young people, because here the fun is twenty-four hours a day: the beach during the day, the stroll and shopping in the afternoon and evening, the nightclubs, bars and cafés with their parties on the pedestrian area and on the beach in the night.

Soft, fine and golden sand welcomes all guests of Lignano, equipped with beach umbrellas, sunbeds and deckchairs, in addition to showers with hot and cold water, restaurant-cafés and animation from morning until evening. Terrazza a Mare is the meeting-place of all young people during the beach holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro: here it is possible to sip a cocktail on the terrace and to dance in the discotheque with sea view. And near the sign of the seaside resort, it is located the Beach Village, a free fun village open from June until September with games, dance and events, the VIP Area on the beach with gazeboes, curtains and Jacuzzis on the sand, and the Beach Arena with its international sporting events and free concerts.

Sabbiadoro is also the kingdom of shopping with its very long pedestrian street rich in shops of prestigious brands, but also souvenirs shops and bazaars. And between a dress and a pair of shoes there is time for a good ice cream. In the evening the pedestrian area changes its face thanks to the lighted shop windows and the street artists who entertain children and adults. From the evening the trendy cafés fill up with young people for the ritual of the aperitif, whereas immediately thereafter pizzerias and restaurants are ready to welcome tourists. After dinner, the cocktail-bars are the protagonists with music and theme evenings, but who wants to try something different, goes in the beach bars to dance barefoot on the sand under the stars until late at night.

Who wants to have all this close at hand, can choose the apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro of agency Arena: along the pedestrian zone, in the more quiet but at the same time near the city centre and the beach side streets, or on the promenade. In this way it will be easier enjoy the beach holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Boat excursions from Lignano

For some days the sun appeared after a long and cold winter and it begins to touch also the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro. Several trees and plants, that populate the Friulian seaside resort, are blooming and the accommodation facilities, including the apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro of the Arena agency, are ready to welcome the tourists that will enjoy a spring beach holiday.

The coming of the good weather, with mild temperatures and more hours of sunlight, has already brought the first positive data: the last week end Lignano Sabbiadoro welcomes a lot of people who took advantage of the good weather for a stroll on the beach and along the centre streets. Also Barcamania, exhibition of small boats, got benefit from the good weather and closed the event with a record peak of visitors and contacts.

Thanks to the climate change and to the gradual arrival of warm, the agencies of Lignano are registering a good trend of apartments’ and villas’ booking from May until mid July. This result makes hope for a good summer season. Also the municipality and the private associations will help the summer season through many sports events and shows. National and international championships on the beach of Lignano and in the modern sporting facilities, concerts and shows in the squares of Sabbiadoro and Pineta, as well street artists to liven up the city centre.

In addition the Friulian beach offers 6 theme parks, where children can have fun from morning until evening, and it offers also the opportunity to make some excursions by boat to the Marano Lagoon to taste very good fish dishes and to the mouth of the Stella river, regional wildlife reserve to admire the animals of different species and also trees and plants in their natural surroundings.

Lignano offers a complete holiday on the beach, with a lot of fun for tourists of all ages, rich in services for adults and children, and a special welcome. A welcome that begins from the quality of the accommodation facilities: every year there is a higher standard and in addition to the comfort of the accommodation, hotels and agencies of Lignano offer services to complete their offer.

The first service included in the price of the stay is the reserved beach. Once it was privilege of the hotels, now for some year also the apartments in Lignano offer to its guests beach umbrella, sun bed and deck chair on the beach. Air conditioning, TV and private parking place are now become “basic” services requested by tourists. While discounts for the parks are a beautiful and appreciated surprise for families with children who stay in the apartments and they can be used on days when the weather is not the ideal to go to the beach.

And if during the beach holiday, tourists wish some information about events and shows, they can contact the team of the agency in Lignano, which will surely satisfy every need. Spring is a good moment to discover the seaside resort on the upper Adriatic Sea.

It is enough a trip or a week end holiday to discover the beauties and to book an apartment in Lignano for the summer holidays.

The beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro opens the summer season 2010 already at the beginning of March with different successful events, that draw a large public from the surroundings.

The first big event, that is a tradition in the seaside resort, is the Festa delle Cape (Molluscs Festival), that takes place in Lignano Pineta in the wide Piazza Marcello D’Olivo. Born in 1984 by a group of professional fishermen, this festival records every year a crowd of people lover of the fish products and of the good food. During the two week ends, the big kiosk of the Festa delle Cape is always crowded and a lot of volunteers work to help the people in line that want to taste the specialities of the Lignano sea: clams, long molluscs, grilled or breaded sardines, baked sardines with onions and squids. Thanks to this event, tourists have the chance to know also the tastiness offered by the sea of Lignano. In addition, the Festa delle Cape plays an important role in solidarity, because the money raised are donated to charity institutions.

After the Festa delle Cape, piazza Marcello D’Olivo and the entire commercial area of Lignano Pineta are ready for the 3rd Barcamania, exhibition-market of small boats. This year it has been chosen the area of Pineta because it offers more room compared to Sabbiadoro and this allows to easier transfer the boats. Another change concerns the period: mid-March instead mid-February to enjoy a more mild climate. Sure this changes will help the exhibition-market to have a more large public, both of fans and of curios tourists. As matter of fact in this period the holiday apartments of Lignano will be ready to welcome the early tourists, because at the beginning of April there is Easter. For the entire seaside resort, the Eastertide is the first test of the summer season and so all facilities, especially hotels and agencies of Lignano, are open and ready to welcome guest that wish to enjoy the early warm rays of sunshine.

In March there is also place for the sports fans. Two important competitions take place in Lignano: the 28th International Dance Trophy of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the 9th Walk of the Sea.

The Trophy is a competition at the highest level with the best dancers of Europe of all ages. From children to winners of several international competitions, through the parents or senior groups that perform classical ballet choreographies for the amusement of children and public. This competition became an annual spectacle with thousands of athletes with sparkling clothes and with an high professionalism, who perform in various disciplines: classic, modern and contemporary dance, hip hop, belly dance, flamenco and much more.

The Walk of the Sea is a walking race for amateurs, in which every person of any age can participate with their speed. In this way a lot of inhabitants of Lignano and also some tourists take the chance to stroll in the beautiful landscape of Lignano Pineta and Riviera. Along the 3 courses, 6, 9 or 14 km, walkers can eat and drink something in the refreshment stalls. A very good way to breath deeply the air of Lignano and to spend a spring morning.

Thanks to these events, the summer season starts already in March: tourists find the apartments in Lignano of the Arena Agency open, but especially they find a lot of events and activities to spend pleasant spring days on the beach, waiting the arrival of hot summer.

The new exhibition in Lignano Sabbiadoro

Are you interested in bicycles, motorbikes or cars? The beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro offers two weekends exclusively to the world of wheels and accessories with the new event Ruotamania.

From Saturday, October the 17th, to Sunday, October the 25th, the pedestrian zone of Sabbiadoro turns into an exhibition ground with more than 30 exhibitors. Here you can find the stand with vintage cars and motorcycles, the stand with the latest models, in addition to cycling, motorcycling and car associations and federations, ready to answer every question and curiosity. Ruotamania is not only  a show, but it is also a market: it is possible to arrange for the purchase of a car, a motorcycle, a bike or a quad.

During this two weekends, the main street of Lignano turns into an important showcase of wheels, where exhibitors and associations are available to give all requested information and to show their models. Also the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro changes his face and it offers as racetrack with bends and dunes. The courses, near Terrazza a Mare, are open to all who wish to experience the thrill of driving a car or a quad on the sand and so live exciting test drive.

Those who prefer to cycle, can take part in the first Ruotamania trophy, cycle race on road for amateurs, Sunday, October 18th. The start is at 10.30 a.m. from Terrazza a Mare and the race stretches along different towns near Lignano, in an attractive course of 79 km through beautiful landscapes.

Not only engines and fascinating vintage and modern models, but also safety driving. Ruotamania offers also road safety education to all visitors, but especially to young people of high school of Udine province. The Italian Motorcycle Federation and the Moto Club Sabbiadoro offer different courses of safety driving from Piazza Fontana to Terrazza a Mare to sensitize public about the importance of a careful driving. During two weekends, federations, associations and police are at disposal to offer useful information about road safety, the new road code, drive licence and much more.

From vintage car to quad, from fully equipped motorcycle to bicycle, from test drive to suggestions for a good maintenance of the vehicle. In Ruotamania there is also the solidarity. Profits of the event, organized by the association Onlus “A smile from a wave”, are directed to the children of the region in socio-economic difficult.

The event binds itself with the solidarity, but also with the revitalization of Lignano Sabbiadoro during low season periods with the organization of events and shows. In this way the association wants to deseasonalize the seaside resort through a collaboration with all strengths of the towns to reappraise Lignano also during the winter season.

For three years the first weekend of September in Lignano Sabbiadoro is characterized by the “Grape treading under the stars”. A special event to say good-bye to the summer in an amusing way and also to relive the ancient Italian tradition of treading grapes with the feet, but in open air, on the beach and under a starry night.

This year the “Grape treading under the stars” will take place Saturday, September the 5th, from 9.30 p.m. in the Beach Village in Lignano Sabbiadoro, located in beach office n° 4 on Lungomare Trieste. Here, on a special cart provided for the event, a lot of participants will dance barefoot on grapes in big wine vats.

A very special end-summer-party: it’s not every day to press the grapes on the beach and a short walk from Terrazza a Mare. And by tradition, grape treaders will be beautiful girls with coloured dresses.

This year “Grape treading under the stars” will have some news more: the dancers can choose to dance on stage or on grapes. It’s a real show complete with winner and election of Miss Grape Treading 2009. To win, the girls must show, in addition to the beauty, the ability in the grape treading.

“Grape treading under the stars” was a big success right from the start because spectators have a lot of fun watching the shows and the grape treading competition and at the same time they know this special tradition, from which come the world renowned Friulian wines.

A music, dance, beauty and grapes and wine scent party, just as in the agricultural world of the past.
This event attracts a lot of tourists also thanks to its wonderful location: the central and famous Beach Village, next to the Terrazza a Mare. All guests in the apartments of Lignano Sabbiadoro can easily reach it through the pedestrian zone, because it is located in front of Piazza Fontana, or with a romantic walk along the promenade.

Music, dance, beauty and the grapes scent: the mos beautiful party to say good-bye to the summer and to all tourists that spent their beach holidays in Lignano.

Basket&Beach in Lignano Sabbiadoro

After several summers in Udine, for the first year the association Digiemme brings the basketball on the beach of Lignano, more exactly in Piazza Marcello D’Olivo in Lignano Pineta. A wonderful square surrounded by the most famous cafés of the Movida in Lignano and with the blue sea and the golden beach in the background.

The plan of the association is to move to the beach the basketball and the fun of these tournaments with young athletes and fans coming from Friuli and other regions giving a very special shows to tourists in holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

The first match took place July the 10th with the 12° Malagoli Memorial, that in Udine is considered a kind of festival. Also in Lignano it had a great success of spectators, with a lot of tourists and fans of basketball that thronged the steps on Sunday evening. The excellent organisation contributed to this success: very good players from different regions, music, the coloured truck of the region Friuli Venezia Giulia, free ice-cream and the chance to buy photos and t-shirts of the tournament.

For this reason there is a big expectation and agitation for the second match of Basket&Beach, with the 1° “Solo Sport Friuli tv” Trophy. From Friday, July 31st, to Sunday, August 2nd, Piazza Marcello D’Olivo in Lignano Pineta will change again into an outdoors basketball field with a Tartan floor and this time will be the ladies the protagonists of this meeting. Events not to miss are the contest of three-point shot on Saturday evening, the finals for the third place and the super finals for the first place on Sunday evening. Also for this week end, music, videos, ice-cream and stands will frame this big sporting event.

In a mix of basketball, tourism and a lot of fun, “Solo Sport Friuli tv” Trophy waits for all guests that throng the beach and the apartments of Lignano for a week end rich in sport.

Intuitive, simple, fast and at the same time complete and with relaxing and fresh graphics. These are the features of the new Arena agency website, that presents its apartments for rent and for sale in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

A simple and intuitive net surfing, without too much clicks to reach the goal, is the most important requirement of every website, especially for those that address the tourists. Pleasant graphics, with fresh and nice pictures and colors, complete the work.

The new website of the Arena agency follows these principles, offering right from the start its villas and apartments in Lignano with some information and with a big interactive map of the seaside resort. With an easy click on the information file it is possible to visualize a more detailed description of the services and of the house typology, the price list and the pictures of the building, all that on the same page and without additional clicks.

In the new Arena agency website, the usability expands thanks to a very useful tool for tourists that search the ideal accommodation for the beach holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro. On each description is available the tool “Save” that allows to save and compare the more suitable villa or apartment. In this way it is easier and faster choose a perfect accommodation!

In addition to this innovation, the Arena agency suggests also an internal search engine for users that have already a clear head about their stay on the beach, where there’s the chance to enter the date of arrival, the weeks of stay and the typology of the accommodation. In few seconds the search engine provides the results of apartments and villas in Lignano that meet the standards of users.

The website offers also the on-line booking of the accommodation and of the beach umbrella in Lignano Sabbiadoro. Special offers, sales of villas and apartments in Lignano and the weather are present also in the new website. And if tourists have some question, they can contact the team of the agency through the request information form on the contact page.

Thanks to the new website of the Arena agency, it will be easier and faster book an apartment or a villa for the beach holiday in Lignano.