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Agency Arena released the new price lists for its apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Through its website it is possible to see the new prices for each apartment in a single click. In fact, each apartment has pictures, descriptions, information about services and price list divided into groups according to the seasons.

For the agency in Lignano Sabbiadoro the summer season starts in May, when days are warm enough to allow an afternoon on the beach. This month is the ideal to spend the beach holiday: prices of the apartments are low and you can enjoy also beautiful sunny and warm days. It is not unusual to find days with over 30 degrees and see, consequentely, the beach full of adults and children. The bravest even go swimming, even if the sea is not to warm.

If you can’t take advantage of the month of May for the holidays in Lignano, you can plan your holiday during the summer months for excellence: July and August. Agency Arena offers, in fact, the online availability to know in real time the free apartments for a well-defined period. From the list of results you can see in detail the apartments with prices, their location, offered services, distance from the beach of Lignano and from the main places.

Once you find the apartment in Lignano, it is possible to book it immediately through the online booking or to request more information by filling out the form. In both cases the staff of the agency Arena will respond you quickly to your requests.

And if you have the chance to go in Lignano, you can take advantage of a sunny day for a walk and a visit to the apartments offered by the agency. In this way you can combine business with pleasure and start fantasizing already on your holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

The beahc of Lignano wishes you Merry Christmas

Agency Arena in Lignano wishes to all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012.

Waiting for the arrival of the hot summer, the agency is already working to offer its guests really cosy villas and apartments in Lignano, with more comforts and modern services. All this to give tourists the opportunity to spend relaxing holidays in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

But Lignano is nice even during this period of the year: the coloured lights in the city, Piazza Fontana illuminated with a wonderful Christmas tree, the square in front of Terrazza a Mare with the Sand Crib, the ice rink and the kiosk with hot drinks, the merry-go-round in park San Giovanni Bosco and many decorations and events in the entire city.

The beach of Lignano offers then the chance of a nice walk and to warm up, the cafés are ready with hot chocolate, tea, coffee and excellent appetizers!

Even during the Christmas period, Lignano is a lively city rich in activities, a nice place to spend a different day.

In a joyful atmosphere, with many children that have fun, agency Arena invites you to spend an afternoon in Lignano Sabbiadoro and wishes you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

In Lignano everything is ready to spend a happy Christmas holiday.

The square in front of Terrazza a Mare starts to come alive already Thursday 8th December with the opening of the ice skating rink, that will make have fun to adults and children until after the Epiphany. For about a month it will be possible to ice-skate just in front of the beach, surrounded by a special atmosphere.

The fragrance of the sea and the beach of Lignano mix together with the spiced scent of the mulled wine and of the hot chocolate, offered by the kiosk near the ice rink.

All this gladdened by Christmas lights, most of them already positioned, and by the soft music in the entire city centre of Lignano Sabbiadoro.

In these days begin to see the Christmas lights: the wonderful Christmas tree with blue-violet lights that welcomes people at the entrance of Lignano, the coloured lights along the streets of the city and the centre of Sabbiadoro, Piazza Fontana, with its thousands of small blue lights and stars that come together over the fir. This zone is particularly evocative in the evening, illuminated by a beautiful composition of lights which then spread along the pedestrian street. And just a short walk from here, there is the ice rink with its kisok and the stand with the Sand Crib.

Even this year visitors can enjoy this special sculpture made with the sand of the beach of Lignano and they can, as always, make a donation to charity. In the stand, visitors can admire the entire composition, with dozens of statues of people, animals, scenes of daily life and, always placed in particular positions, the scene of the Nativity. In addition, through pictures and videos, visitors can see the different phases of the development of sculptures, from the collection of sand, to the first models, until the realization of the smallest details.

To take home a nice souvenir of this visit, there is the possibility to buy calendars, postcards, bookmarks and small diaries of the Lignano Sabbiadoro’s Sand Crib. In addtion, a few days, we should know the surprise of this year: it is said, in fact, that the near the Sand Crib there will be even a “salty” surprise. Another novelty for the Christmas in Lignano that will astonish adults and children and will draw a good number of visitors.

Visitors can also combine a relaxing stroll on the beach with the visit at the Sand Crib or with a moment of fun on the ice rink and stop in the evening in the city to eat a good pizza.

Who says that the beach is nice only during the summer season? The beach of Lignano offers always a good reason for a visit all year round.

Sunday October 23rd started on the sea of Lignano the 23rd Autumn Championship of the Lagoon, a competition that will end the 6th of November. In this time, the boats will compete not only in front of the beach of Lignano, but on all waters of the regional coast.

The first day of competition has been very exciting: the Bora, a northern to north-east wind, that began to blow in the morning has guaranteed a certain speed for all boats and also some difficulty. In fact, if on the one hand the Bora wind gives speed, on the other hand its sudden changes of direction put a strain on the technical capabilities of competitors. Just for this reason, the sea of Lignano gave to everybody two really technical and spectacular competitions, one at midday and the other in the afternoon. In short, it was impossible improvise, you had to be very careful and be real experts to control the boat under the influence of the weird Bora wind.

With 40 boats in the contest, the competition has been very breathtaking and the organizers hope to see the same show Saturday 29th October with the regatta, that will start at midday.

The Autumn Championship of the Lagoon 2011 is organized, among the others, by the Yacht Club Lignano and it is valid for the assignment of another very important trophy, where protagonists are the seas of Lignano and Caorle: the 4th Cup of the Two Lagoons. This Cup will be awarded on November 27th and are involved the boats that take part in the autumn contests of Lignano Sabbiadoro and Caorle. With the joining of these two rankings will arise the winners of the Cup, also organized by Yacht Club Lignano and the Circolo Nautico Porto Santa Margherita.

Beyond the beautiful beach, Lignano shows to have also an exceptional sea for regattas and, in fact, many championships take place throughout the year in the seaside resort. A reality that has many fans, who come from all over Italy to compete with their boats for various awards.

And in terms of boats, we can not forget Nautilia, the used boat show that takes place in Aprilia Marittima, few kilometres from Lignano. Contenders have also the opportunity to visit this special show, even if they will not find racing boats, but only pleasure boats from 7 to 20 meters of length. Maybe someone is looking for a boat for excursions, as well as for a racing.

Saturday October 29th at 12.00 o’ clock starts the last regatta of the 23rd Autumn Championship of Lagoon on the water in front of the beach of Lignano. Anyone who wants to see a show with more than 40 boats at sea chase fro the award, can not miss this so important event.
Fresh air, smell of salt air, sand beneath your feet…nothing better to watch a first-class regatta in Lignano.

Tuesday 20th September drew the curtain over the European Masters Games in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

With the closing ceremony under the big structure of Games Centre, for fear of bad weather, for fear of bad weather, the European Games for the over 30 have completed and Lignano gave the flag to Nice 2015, not to forget the World Masters Games in Turin 2013. The evening has been easy, experienced more as a greeting between friends than a pompous ceremony.

On the stage of Games Centre, in front of a large audience comfortably sitting, took turns in the thanks and farewell speeches the mayor of Lignano, the councillor for sports of the region as well as assistant president of the organizing committee and the general director of the International Federation of Masters Games. First of the authorities, was given space to Lignano, its beach, city and all places that hosted the competitions.

On a large screen have been projected the most significant images of these days of competition, offering the public moments of great emotion. After the speeches, there was a moment of entertainment for all audience with the twirling group of Lignano Sabbiadoro, that performed in this sport and in a charming luminous choreography with lights off.

Finished the show, very appreciated by the public, has been the moment of the group toast, that officially gave the go-party for all presents. Much of the public filled the dance floor thanks to 2 Djs, which have proposed a beautiful repertoire of songs, from the oldest to the most recent.

Besides the speeches, the show and the dance, people has also tasted an excellent pasta, offered by the organizers. All tables were full of pasta dishes and wine glasses, creating a convivial atmosphere, ideal to reinforce friendships and go out with a bang the Masters Games of Lignano.

With this evening, the city of Lignano has definitely left a good memory of itself and its games, of volunteers and of many people who have been busy to carry out all competitions and ensure the right services to athletes and their trainers. Masters Games have been an important showcase to present the beach of Lignano and many towns in Friuli to more then 4000 athletes, not to mention trainers and family members that followed them up there.

In addition to know different cities and towns of Friuli thanks to the competition, athletes were able to visit other places thanks to the excursions sponsored by the organizing committee. More than 1000 people attended these guided tours and the favourite destinations have been Trieste, Udine, Grado, Marano and Venice, all cities and towns at few kilometres from Lignano Sabbiadoro.

With these trips, Lignano shown also to be a very good departure point for excursions to the most important cities of the eastern Italy and to typical towns, rich in charm, history and excellent local products.

Lignano Sabbiadoro is ready for the European Masters Games

Only a few days at the beginning of the European Masters Games in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

From September 10th to 20th the friulian beach hosts in fact the second Games for masters, that is for all athletes enrolled in the different federations that are more than 30-35 years old. The minimum age to take part in oscillates between 30 and 40 years old, according to the different sports, while there is not a maximum age limit to participate.

Just think that in the Games in Lignano there will be also the fashion designer Ottavio Missoni, which at 90 years old will take part in shot put, discus and javelin throwing.

Among the famous names who entered the competitions of European Masters Games, there are also Luca Cantagalli and Franco Bertoli, myths of the Italian volleyball. The two volleyball players will participate in the 2×2 beach volleyball tournament, that takes place on the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro from 12th to 18th of September.

To keep high the name of Lignano, there is the master Giuseppe Formenton, who will compete tp win the gold medal in karate.

Despite a slow start, caused by bureaucratic inconveniences, the Games of Lignano are having a large number of entries, so that the organizing committee decided to keep open the dead line. Even today on receives entering mainly from Italian athletes and the number of members has exceeded the 3500 sportsmen, surpassing the success of Malmoe, home of the first EMG.

The largest group after Italy is Russia, with more than 400 athletes, then there is Ukraine and Germany. The beach of Lignano will welcome also a group coming from India (about twenty members) and from USA (fifteen). Despite the Games are mainly for European nations, also the non-European nations can participate, with the consent of their national federations and of the organizing committee.

Lignano is preparing in this way to host thousands and thousand of people up to September, with the hope that the weather is clement and gives few day of hot sun to spend on the beach. Many accommodation facilities will be open only for this reason, offering guests of Masters Games the beast choice of accommodations in the seaside resort. Agencies in Lignano prepare for this reason special offers and package holidays for those who want to accommodate in an apartment and let at disposal the necessary services for a pleasant holiday.

Athletes and all guest of European Masters Games will find in few days a well equipped city, ready to welcome them and to follow their competition also outside Lignano. In addition to the friulian beach, there are also other towns, allowing in this way to know part of the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

On the beach of Lignano, wine tastings

In Lignano Sabbiadoro tourists can find very good restaurants where taste excellent fish dishes of the Adriatic Sea, caught not far from the beach. Marano in fact is only few kilometres far from the beach of Lignano and it still lives thanks to fishing: every day fishing boats sail and comes back with a fresh and delicious booty.

But in the restaurants in Lignano, tourists can find also typical regional dishes and savour tastes and aromas of a genuine time. From first to second course and desserts, Friuli Venezia Giulia offers an incredible variety of dishes thanks also to contamination with neighbouring countries. The culinary Venetian, Austrian and Slavonic traditions are in many local dishes offered in restaurants in the whole region, not only in Lignano.

Along with this abundance there is also the nectar of gods, as it was called by the ancient Roman. Friuli is the country of wine: different DOC areas offer incomparable sparkling, white and red wines, that blend well together with the local dishes.

To make know to the tourist on holiday in Lignano the wine quality and variety, the association “Lignano nel terzo millennio” organizes in Pineta “Meet the writer and wine” (Incontri con l’autore e con il vino) and this summer also the event “Wine on the beach” (Vini d’autore al mare).

This event aims to guide all participants to explore special DOC wines of the region with tastings on the terraces of the beach offices in Lignano Pineta. Especially, guided tastings take place on the terrace of beach office 2 for still 3 Friday: the 22nd of July, the 5th and 12th of August.

From 18.30 it is possible to taste free wines suggested by oenologist in a location out of the ordinary, watching the beach and the sea, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. It is very easy to reach the beach office 2, because it leans towards Piazza Marcello D’Olivo, the large square that opens out directly on the beach. Within walking distance for tourists who accommodate in Lignano Pineta, reachable also by bike or with buses, the square is the focal point of the area, also location of many concerts and sporting events during the entire summer season.

“Vini d’autore al mare” is a very appreciated event because it allows everyone, especially tourists staying in the apartments of Lignano and don’t have time to make an excursion, to know the wines of Friuli. In this way it brings the regional specialities on the beach, offering to tourist a more pleasant memory of its holiday in Lignano.

The beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro has been always popular with many Italian and foreign families, which love its sand and sea. Especially children have the opportunity to run barefoot on the sand and to play in safety on the seashore, while parents enjoy the well-earned rest under the beach umbrellas, that, thanks to their distance, offer some discretion.

In addition the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro, Pineta and Riviera offers from many years a very good entertainment program for adults and children, offering lessons with professional animators of muscle toning, water gym and group dances to adults directly on the sand, while children can enjoy the mini clubs daily open with a tight and varied program of recreational and sporting activities.

The quality and the shape of the beach and many services for families both on the sand and in the city, enabled Lignano Sabbiadoro to win also this year the Green Flag, which waves near the most famous Blue Flag. The Green Flag is an award assigned by more than 400 Italian paediatricians and by an Italian magazine on health to the most suitable Italian beaches for families and especially for children.

Among the requirements met by Lignano there is, first of all, the beach: fine and soft sand where children can run safely and a gently sloping seabed. Water quality is another very important factor and Lignano can boast a clean sea, safe for bathing.

Services on the beach: animation for all guests on holiday in Lignano, from sports courses for adults to mini clubs for children, through evening shows with musicals, cabaret and dance where also tourists can participate. But not only that, even clean and large toilets with showers with hot and cold water. Presence of cafés and restaurants, free WiFi on the entire beach, rooms equipped for mothers with babies, areas with gazebos, sofas, chaise-longue and Jacuzzi. Not to mention the evening parties proposed by the cafés on the beach of Lignano.

With regard the services in the city, paediatricians preferred the lively resorts, with restaurants, pizzerias, amusement arcades, to those where quiet reigns only. It has been shown that to spend a good holiday, a family needs also entertainments, activities, sports facilities and the opportunity to experience the city. A holiday in Lignano offers all this: from the more quiet areas in Lignano Riviera and near the lagoon, to the more lively city centre in Lignano Sabbiadoro and Lignano Pineta. But everything always surrounded by the local pine forest, which gives the atmosphere of wholesomeness.

In addition to offering in the city, also accommodation facilities must be adequate to accommodate families. That’s especially apartments in Lignano are in high demand to spend a holiday in total freedom, with the right spaces for parents and children, with garden or facing the sea. All apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro have facilities and comforts to make guests feel at home, but away from home.

In short, a safe beach and sea, a city with nature, but also many services and entertainment, comfortable accommodations with right space for the whole family.

These are the most important requirements, but there are many others, that the beach on the northern Adriatic sea met.
What are they? Come on holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro and find them out!

Agency Arena offers a large number of apartments in Lignano Sabbiadoro, the most lively area of the city on the upper Adriatic Sea, where guests can enjoy amusing holiday until late at night. Besides the beautiful city centre with its long pedestrian street rich in shops, pizzerias, play rooms and parks for children, Sabbiadoro is well known for its beach.

On the soft and fine golden sand there is Terrazza a Mare (Terrace on the sea), beautiful shell-shaped building in the middle of the sea, connected to the square in front by a luxury pier, which is also accessible from the beach. Just Terrazza a Mare offers tourists on holiday in Lignano both relaxation and wild fun.
During the day, in fact, tourists can make a break on the terrace, surrounded only by the sound of the wave and by the soft lounge music coming from the elegant restaurant. The constant buzz of the beach is far away and the 360° panorama of the sea and coastline is spectacular.

Restaurant, surrounded by the terrace, is open from morning until late at night and is distinguished by its modern, elegant white furniture and the variety of dishes. Besides first and second courses, in Terrazza a Mare you can eat also a snack and breakfast and clothing is not important: restaurant is the place for flip-flops and shorts, but also for a more formal style for a business meeting in a relaxed and beautiful atmosphere.

If during the day Terrazza a Mare is destination of those who want to go away from the yelling of bathers, from the time of aperitif it becomes the most popular meeting point of young people: suspended on the sea, cocktails, appetizers and good music accompany the sunset over the sea of Lignano until the breaking of the first star. At this time, music and lights becomes softer and starts the moment of the dinner by candlelight, which, for the most romantic people, ends with a walk on the terrace or along the beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro, illuminated only by the stars.

But there is more, because Terrazza a Mare changes again in an American Bar offering all the chance to live the long night of Lignano among cocktails, music and dance in one of the most enchanting places of the friulian beach. Terrazza offers then a wonderful image also by night, thanks to the lighting of the pier with lights that change colour. If during the day it is distinguished by its elegance and whiteness that stands on the golden sand and blue sea of Lignano Sabbiadoro, in the evening it becomes one of the most photographed and colourful subject, without being out of place.

And for those who can not help but read the mail and update the facebook profile, Terrazza a Mare offers the free wifi connection. Simply request the data for the access and in a moment you will have access to Internet with your laptop, smart-phone or tablet.

Terrazza a Mare, symbol of the city, place for fun and relaxation in the middle of the sea, few steps from the centre of Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Lignano in Fiore in Hemingway Park, fun and solidarity for children

Tomorrow, Saturday 23rd of April, starts the festival “Lignano in Fiore” in Hemingway Park in Lignano Pineta.

This year the event gains a double importance, because it starts with the weekend of Easter and in addition it celebrates 25 years old.

For 25 years, from middle of April to the beginning of May, “Lignano in Fiore” collects adults and children of the seaside resort and many visitors from out of town in the beautiful park dedicated to writer Ernest Hemingway, to give days of festive atmosphere with shows, music and stall with flowers, plants and typical products coming from different Italian regions and especially to give the money raised from the festival to associations which helps children in trouble.

“Lignano in Fiore” is born as moment of thinking about children in trouble all around the world and every year, beside helping children with terrible diseases and their families, a part of the revenue is used to finance projects for children in poor areas of the world.

The first project was for AGMEN of Trieste, association that helps children with cancer and their families. A great project that lasted 15 years, reaching significant milestones such as purchasing of new equipments for the diagnosis and treatments, economic aid to families, creation of accommodation for parents near the hospital and so on.

In recent years, “Lignano in Fiore” created wells to collect drinking water in Africa, a large center for children in Saò Tomè and many other activities for populations in trouble after calamities: children of Haiti, people struck by Tsunami in 2005 and populations of Bangladesh. All that without forget helping families in Lignano and surroundings.

A such great activity and always rich with new people with new ideas and a lot of enthusiasm celebrates this year 25 years, a very important milestone which will be celebrate in Hemingway Park for the entire festival. From Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th of April, Saturday 30th of April and Sunday 1st of May and the weekend 7th-8th of May Hemingway Park will collect thousand of people in an atmosphere rich in joy and solidarity.

A lot of shows for children, beside the opportunity to run free in the park, stall with flowers and plants and the large white tent, where volunteers cook first courses, meat and french fries fro the happiness of all visitors.

The program of “Lignano in Fiore” is rich in shows of sports clubs, puppet masters and workshops for adults and children, besides different meeting about solidarity, voluntary work and the situation of people in needy areas. But Sunday 1st of May will be the most important day, because at 3 pm there will be the cutting of the cake to celebrate 25 years of the association. To make more magic and colored this moment, there will be also the launch of hundreds of colorful balloons that will make the sky colorful and they will bring with them message of hope.

For further information about the program, watch the site www.lignanoinfiore.it.

We are waiting for you in Hemingway Park in Lignano Pineta.