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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.

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.

A beautiful walk in Lignano Sabbiadoro

Sunday 27th of March takes place in Lignano the 10th See Walk, a race for amateur organised by Athletic Club Apicilia of Latisana.

This race is born with the aim to involve all people, from children to adults, to spend some hours in the open air in the green of Lignano Pineta and Lignano Riviera in a period of the year where the climate is mild. To reach this aim, the walk is open to all and presents courses of different length to do with free walk. Those who are trained, can run, but other people can walk and stroll with friends through the pine wood and then  the beach of Lignano, to the Park Hemingway, departure and arrival point. Participants can so also enjoy the beautiful landscapes of Lignano Pineta and Lignano Riviera and discover enchanting places, where also stroll often.

It is possible to register as individuals, groups or families and at the end of the race it is given an award to larger groups. The registration is made directly in Hemingway Park in Lignano Pineta the day of the race from 8 to 9.30 am, only groups must have a form with the list of all participants. The start is free from 9 to 9.30 am and the end of the race is at the arrival of the last participant and anyway not over 1 pm.

From the Hemingway Park participants will run until the centre of Lignano Pineta, where Barcamania waits for them, and the they will continue to Lignano Riviera and the Zoo letting behind road and dirt road and ending with a nice run on the sand until the park, departure and arrival point.

At the arrival there will be water, tea and biscuits for all, and also awards for larger groups. This walk has not a ranking, because it is a in amateur race and anybody can make it.

The aim of Athletic Club Apicilia is to offer the opportunity to take part in this event and spend a morning in the nature, discovering the beauties of Lignano Pineta and Lignano Riviera.

Slowly the winter gives away to spring and the first warm rays of sun light and heat the city and the beach of Lignano.

The desire to go out and stay outdoors after the winter months is a lot and you can see it by the large number of people that during these past sunny weekends came in Lignano. The beach and the pedestrian area were teeming with people strolling, children playing and dogs walking with their owners, all enjoying the beautiful sunny days at the beach and foretaste so the summer holiday.

If in these weekends many visitors went to Lignano for a simple walk outdoors, from March they will have also the opportunity to enjoy also many events. Festivals, competitions and shows fill up all weekends of March to reawaken the seaside resort and offer the chance to enjoy the events before the summer season. For several years, in fact the city of Lignano try to extend the tourist offer through the creation of events that can attract many visitors in period of low season. For this reason in March start the first events and are presented the upcoming events of the summer season.

The first is the Mollusc Festival in Lignano Pineta in Piazza Marcello D’Olivo. A long tradition of 27 years: the Association Fishermen “Al Mare” starts with the first weekend of March the events outdoors of the seaside resort. The festival is increasingly popular, attracting for the first two weekends of March thousands of visitors from all over the surrounding territory. The fish-lovers are always satisfied of the very good dishes of clams, grilled or breaded sardines, baked sardines with onions and squids cooked according to tradition. In addition visitors make also charity, because the money raised from the festival is donate to associations and non-profit organizations.

After delighting the palate, it’s the turn of the eyes with the 29th Friuli Venezia Giulia International Dance Trophy, that held in the gym in Lignano Pineta from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th of March. 4000 dancers of every age from over 15 nations will come in Lignano Sabbiadoro to perform in different disciplines of dance: from ballet to street dance, from flamenco to oriental dances.
The shows attracts every year in the beach of Lignano more than 10.000 persons that watch carefully the different stages of the Trophy, that are judged by international juries. Winners will receive various cash prizes and the best, the dancers that stand out during the event for their technique and passion, will enjoy also intern-ships at major Italian and international dance schools.
The Trophy is an European reference point for those who invest all energy in dancing both to make it a work and for passion. In fact in this show there are children from 4 years old that start to dance, teenagers dreaming dancing on the most prestigious stages and also “over”, persons that can not give up dancing a waltz or a mazurka. Besides being a beautiful event, it is also an event that brings up the importance of physical activity even at an amateur level.

The same thing that the 10th March of the Sea in Lignano Sabbiadoro the 27th of March wants to promote. It is not a competition, but an amateur run with different distances: 6, 9 and 14 km to go at their own pace. You can participate individually or as a group or family and the march is for ail those who want to spend a morning in the midst of nature. The march begins from the Hemingway Park from 8.00 to 9.30 am and it winds through Lignano Pineta and Lignano Rivera, discovering these two beautiful green areas of the city.

With this appointment ends the month of March in Lignano Sabbiadoro, waiting for the shows of April, very important month with the first arrivals for the Easter holidays.

Many tourists on the beach in Lignano for Ferragosto

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.

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.

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.