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Open beach in Lignano also in September

The hottest summer months are already finished, but also a holiday in Lignano in September can give very beautiful moments. The beach is open and equipped, with animation teams and beach bars and restaurants ready to satisfy the desires of guests. The weather is not the ideal to go for a swim, but it’s very good to sunbathe and especially to play in free with children.

In fact, if on the one hand September is the month that marks the end of the summer full of people, on the other hand it is the ideal month for the holiday of families and of all tourists that seek quiet and relaxation in a seaside resort. Lignano offers this kind of holiday thanks to its own territory: there are not only the beach and the sea, but also a nice pine wood, the river Tagliamento with its wonderful landscape, the lagoon, the spa and a wide range of services and offers to enjoy a relaxing beach holiday also in September.

Apartments in Lignano welcome during this period several families that spend last days of holiday before school and enjoy warm days, open services in all seaside resort and many events in the city and in neighbouring countries.

Certainly of great interest and impact was the birthday of Frecce Tricolori (Tricolour Arrows), the Italian acrobatic team which celebrated 50 years with a weekend of great entertainment. Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September, more than 300.00 spectators watched the Air Show in Rivolto, near Codroipo, few kilometres far from Lignano Sabbiadoro. A breathtaking show in a beautiful sunny day after some rainy days won the entire crowd from morning until evening, with the peak of excitement during the exhibition of Frecce Tricolori: aerobatics fro 25 minutes with applauses from all spectators.

Many Italians, but also Austrians and Slovenians have gathered in Rivolto to celebrate 50 years of Frecce, which invited to celebrate with them the most prestigious aerobatic teams in the world. An exceptional event, which you could not miss. And in fact, many tourists took advantage of the holiday in Lignano Sabbiadoro to reach Rivolto, about half an hour far from the seaside resort.

The 50th anniversary of Frecce Tricolori was certainly an extraordinary event, which attracted many people in a period when the weather is not always good. But this is not the only event that brightens up the Friulian September, bringing more tourists on the beaches of Lignano Sabbiadoro. In a few days it kicks off the event Friuli DOC in the squares and streets of Udine, a beautiful city an hour’s drive from the Friulian beach. Several stalls with typical wines and dishes and handicrafts of Friuli, and also concerts, big shows and street artists welcome every year a large public. Some of these people take advantage of this important event to spend a few days on the beach of Lignano. Buses and shuttle buses ensure the connection between the seaside resort and Udine.

September is a very good month for the holiday in Lignano, the sun is still hot, the beach well equipped and both in the city and in the surroundings there are many events to entertain all tourists.

In Lignano final round for the competition "Moda d'Autore"

August, Thursday 5th, takes place the final evening of “Moda d’autore” (Fashion of artists) on the stage of Kursaal in Lignano Riviera. At 9.30 p.m. light up the spot lights on the creations of designers who where selected. A jury assessed the sketches and the pictures of dress that will be exhibited in the final round.

For the second year Lignano hosts the competition “Moda d’autore”, created to promote the work, talent and creativity of all promising fashion designers aged between 18 and 40 years old and of all students. For them has been created a provided category “Moda d’autore…futuro” (Fashion of artists…future). The entries at this competition were opened at the beginning of March and the participants at the final round were selected by a jury of experts, that will also assess the dress in competition and will nominate the winner for both categories August, Thursday 5th.

For the winners and the seconds of both categories there are cash prizes: 500,00 € for the winners and 250,00 € for the seconds. There are also special prizes that the jury can give for special merits.

As the last year, all finalists have the opportunity to take part with their creations in the fashion show “Lignano in…Moda” the next evening, August, Friday 6th at 9.30 p.m. in Piazza Marcello D’Olivo in Lignano Pineta. A great chance to show also to the public the collections and compare on a real catwalk. The fashion show of Friday is the second meeting with the fashion in Lignano Sabbiadoro and it is also the closing evening of this event. Also this year, organizers “modashow.it” wait for a large public on the beautiful Piazza Marcello D’Olivo.

The event is organized by the fashion agency “modashow.it”, that organized by many years the fashion shows in the beautiful beach of Lignano Sabbiadoro with dress and accessories of businesses of the seaside resort and surroundings, under the patronage of Lignano Sabbiadoro City, “FriuLI VEnezia Giulia” and Confartigianato Udine.

Top quality beach in Lignano: the Blue Flag

Also this year Lignano Sabbiadoro won the European Blue Flag. It is the twenty-first, a very important milestone, as pointed out the FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) Secretary-general to the mayor of Lignano during the presentation of the flag.

Blue Flag is the confirmation of the cleanliness and purity both of the beach and of the sea, where many tourists spend their holidays, but it is also a sign of the presence of adequate services in Lignano and of the city’s commitment in environmental education and in development and improvement according to environmental sustainability criteria.

Besides the city of Lignano Sabbiadoro, were also awarded the marinas of the seaside resort: Marina Punta Faro, Darsena Porto Vecchio, Marina Uno and Marina Punta Verde. The presence of the Blue Flag offers to the tour operators in Lignano an edge over, because they can guarantee their guests a beautiful beach holiday in a resort where nature plays a basic role. Tourists sure enough want to live close to nature during the holidays to have a rest, forget the strains of modern life and relax their mind. And for this reason they choose to stay at apartments in Lignano Riviera, where accommodations are immersed in the quiet nature.

This doesn’t mean lack of services, quite opposite: all apartments are equipped with modern comforts and the beach and the entire area of Riviera dispose of adequate service to offer unforgettable holidays. On the beach there are several mini-clubs with animation teams involving children in games, sports tournaments and events and for adults there is a calendar of sports courses. Games on the sand and on the water are available for all tourists under surveillance of animators and lifeguards. The beach is always clean and the beach umbrellas, recently modernized, are very widely spaced, giving guests more space and privacy. Beach offices dispose of cafés with terrace where sip a fresh drink or eat an ice cream watching the sea and they also offer bathrooms and hot and cold showers constantly cleaned and decorated with flowers and plants.

Environmental education is also on the beach thanks to the presence of recycling bins for waste separation, appreciated by tourists who feel encouraged to do so in their rental apartments in Lignano. Moreover, the beach of Lignano Riviera is easily accessible to disabled people: many paths and special wheelchairs allow them to move freely on the sand and reach the beach umbrella. Bicycle racks and parking for motorcycles and scooters are available outside every beach office of Lignano Riviera in the shadow of maritime pines.

Thanks to these and many other services, Lignano Sabbiadoro won also this year the European Blue Flag, international symbol of the very good quality of sea, beach, marinas and accommodations. A holiday in Lignano is guarantee of fun and comfort respecting nature and environment.

The river Tagliamento and the pine wood of Lignano Riviera

Lignano Riviera is the more quiet area of Lignano Sabbiadoro, where houses, holiday apartments, villas and also hotels blend together perfectly with nature, in a great balancing act.

This balance is due to the recent construction of Lignano Riviera: this area is the youngest of the entire seaside resort and its urbanisation was “intelligent”, enhancing the natural beauties, the pine wood, the last stretch and the mouth of the river Tagliamento. Buildings are plunged in the pine wood and the main streets ramify into a grid of small streets, where it possible to find elegant villas with garden in Mediterranean style and apartments with swimming pool and a lot of parks and gardens. Thanks to these characteristics Lignano Riviera has become the ideal area of the Friulian beach for families with children and for those, who are looking for a beach holiday in complete relaxation in spacious and discrete rooms.

For this reasons, there are more apartments and villas in Lignano Riviera, while there are not so many hotels as in the other areas of the city. Apartments and villas ensure the privacy, offer to the guests all comforts and allow them to walk in complete safety to the golden beach. Also the traffic is moderate, because tourists can park the car in the parking place of their own villa or apartment in Lignano Riviera and then walk to the beach or reach it by bike through the long cycle lane.

On the beach guests find 6 offices in continuous modernization, all equipped with toilets, showers, cafés, animation for children and adults. A particular feature of the beach of Lignano Riviera concerns the beach umbrellas: 3000, but all well spaced, to provide adequate space and privacy to all guests.

In one of these 6 beach offices there are also the beach umbrellas, deck chairs and sun beds of the agency Friulia. Its guests who spend the holidays in the apartments and villas in Lignano Riviera, can use the free beach service few walk steps from the accommodation. In addition guests can spend amusing evenings strolling around the central area of Riviera, or in the nearby “treno” of Lignano Pineta, reachable on foot or by bus.

Tourists who choose for their relaxing beach holidays the area of Riviera should not give up the fun, the shops, the parties in the cafés, the concerts and the several events in the seaside resort. They can easily reach these places both by bike and by bus, thanks to the numerous stops and lines that connect the entire city day and night.

A holiday in Lignano Riviera will give you beautiful days in the nature, with strolls in the shadow of the big pines, surrounded by nice flower beds, and bike rides with family and friends.

Relaxation, a healthy and safe environment for children, spacious and comfortable villas and apartments, a special beach where sea and river join together and charming places where admire the sunset. All this is a holiday in Lignano Riviera, a small pearl in the great Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Beach holiday with your dog in Lignano

There are even more tourists who spend the beach holidays with their four legged friends and for this reason, the beaches like Lignano Sabbiadoro offer special places to accommodate dogs with their masters.

Lignano offers also this year a big stretch of beach in Sabbiadoro, in Punta Faro area, open from the 1st of May until mid September. The “Bow-wow beach” has a surface of 24.000 m2 and this year it will see the participation of the canine edu-centre Zampamica of Lignano Sabbiadoro. Guests of the beach for dogs will have the chance to have fun with the equipment, free offered by the association, and so try some obstacles like in an agility dog course! In addition the canine edu-centre will be at your disposal for some useful advice about a proper man-dog relationship.

The beach becomes a moment to learn more about the behaviour of your dog and have fun together, reinforcing the existing link.

Besides the presence of a stretch of beach, in Lignano there are several accommodation facilities that accepts pets. The Agency Friulia is one these, and it offers to its guests accompanied by their dogs a fair number of holiday apartments in Lignano Riviera in residence and blocks of flats, surrounded by a large garden in a quiet zone. The presence of these features is very important, because they allow to spend a peaceful holiday both to masters and to dogs, with place to run and play together, away from traffic and chaos of down town. In Lignano Riviera it is also possible to take long walks in the nature along the mouth of the river Tagliamento, or biking along the bike paths that connect all the Friulian seaside resort.

If you wish even more space for the beach holiday with your loyal four legged friend, the agency Friulia offers also row of terraced houses and big villas in Lignano Riviera. All accommodations dispose of large rooms, modern conveniences and garden, and allow tourists with their dogs to live a relaxing and pleasant holiday, few walk steps from the beach.

The beach for dogs in Punta Faro is located some kilometre away from the villas and apartments in Lignano Riviera of the agency Friulia, but it is reachable in few minutes by car and it allows to its two- and four-legged guests to spend peaceful days on the beach, with the chance to make new wagging friends!

Lignano Sabbiadoro, a welcoming beach and city for your dog!

Waiting for the summer season in Lignano Sabbiadoro

The agency Friulia wishes all tourists a Happy 2010 and especially a nice holiday in its apartments in Lignano for the next summer.

Although we are in the winter time, the Friulia tourist agency begins the preparations for the next summer season, that it is not so far as it may seem. In fact this year Easter is at the beginning of April and the beach of Lignano will be ready to welcome the first tourists, that take advantage of this holiday to enjoy the first rays of sunshine and the walks on the seafront.

For the businesses of the Friulian seaside resort, the Easter time is the beginning of the summer season, although it is officially proclaimed around the middle of May. Anyway some days ago, the city of Lignano Sabbiadoro and the association of dealers reached an agreement: the businesses will open from 1st of April to 30th of September. This agreement applies only restaurants, shops and cafés, but sure also hotels and agencies of Lignano, like Friulia agency, will follow this direction.

In this way the holiday season of the Friulian beach gets longer and guests that prefer to spend some days during the spring or the autumn will find more accommodations, like villas and apartments, in addition to open shops and public services.

After the Christmas time, the Friulia agency is ready to offer its accommodations in Lignano Riviera, in quiet streets immersed in nature near the beach, and in Lignano Sabbiadoro, in the beating centre of the seaside resort. In addition to the preparations and the opening of the apartments and villas, there will be also the presentation of the special offers that sure will make tourists happy, because they will have the chance to spend the beach holiday in high quality accommodations at reduced prices.

A good apartments or a nice villa in Lignano, the warm sun, the golden beach with its Blue Flag and the green pine wood. With this image the Friulia agency wishes you a Happy New Year. See you next summer in Lignano for a dream holiday.

From Thursday, November 12th, to Saturday, November 14th, in Lignano Sabbiadoro will take place the 7th European Judo Championships only for veterans, namely for athletes over 30.

In the seaside resort are expected more than 600 judokas, both men and women, coming from over 40 European countries, that will compete for the title of European champion in team and individual categories.

Saturday, November 14th, always within the European Championship of Judo, there will be also the 2nd Eju Kata “A” Tournament, and the Sunday judges, coaches and athletes will have the chance to attend the International Kata Camp.

The city of Lignano welcomed with great joy the news about the assignment of the 7th Veteran European Judo Championships, an event that consolidates the sporting passion of the seaside resort and an important test for the 2011 European Master Games. Thanks to the modern sports facilities and to the great accommodation facilities with several hotels and apartments, Lignano hosts these very important championships after cities like Saint Petersburg, London and Prague. A great satisfaction for the entire seaside resort and an incentive to the improvement.

From a numerical point of view, the Veteran European Judo Championship is not only an important sports event, but it has also a great tourist value: besides the athletes, it is forecast the arrival of other 1500 people including supporters and coaches, 50 judges and 120 voluntary workers, indispensable for the good success of the event. All these people will involve some positive economic effects in the city, both in the short and in the long term. Sports tourism livens up Lignano during dead periods like November and it encourages businesses to stay open longer, but athletes can also come back in summer to spend their holidays in the friulian beach, becoming new guests.

The 7th Veteran European Judo Championship will start with the opening ceremony Thursday, November 12th, at 5.00 p.m. in the new Ge.tur. sports hall in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

The spa in Lignano Riviera

Lignano Sabbiadoro is not only beach and sea, but also much more.

Amusement parks for children and adults, gyms with fitness equipments and courses, art galleries, an indoor swimming pool and the spa help to make the holidays unforgettable, also when the sun doesn’t shine.

Especially towards the end of the summer season, rainy days are not so rare and some tourists prefer to go home, instead to take advantage of these days of bad weather and spend some moments of true relaxation at the spa of Lignano Riviera.

In an elegant and modern spa establishment plunged in the centuries-old pine wood and in front of the beach, tourists have the chance to completely relax their body and their mind in a quiet atmosphere and with the help of a skilled team. The staff will advise the best treatment for any type of requirement: exercise, relaxation, body care.

The spa of Lignano offers not only modern thermal treatments, but also the chance to make exercises thanks to the gym and the aqua-fitness lessons, to relax with the hydromassage and the sauna and to regenerate the body in the Beauty Center with massages and beauty treatments. The Beauty Center suggests special cares for the duration of 1, 5 or 10 days or for a week end. In this way tourists can choose a Relax or Beauty Day, Anti Age or Anti Stress Treatment, a Remise en Forme Week End or an Anti-Cellulite Thalassotherapy Week.

The beach holidays can turn in regenerating holidays.

The spa of Lignano is a very good ground to remain on vacation even if it rains. Thanks to the modern equipments and to the different treatments, tourists will go home completely regenerated and relaxed.
In addition, the rainy days can be a good reason to read a good book in the apartments of the Friulia agency in Lignano Riviera, near the spa. A stay in these apartments allows tourists to enjoy a great peace and to easily reach the spa, that is located few meters far from the accommodations of the agency.

Is it raining in Lignano? Take the opportunity for a wonderful day at the spa.

Auditions on the beach of Lignano for X-Factor

Do you sing while you taking a cold shower after a swim in the blue sea of Lignano? Do you spend your evenings on the beach with friends playing a guitar and singing? Do you dream to become a pop star under the beach umbrella?

If so, you can not miss the opportunity offered by the beach of Lignano: the audition for the third edition of X Factor.

Friday the 21st and Saturday the 22nd you can perform in the Beach Arena of Lignano Sabbiadoro in front of the authors of the most loved programme by young people and show all your singing talent. Among other, at the end of July, Giusy Ferreri, a singer launched successfully from X-Factor, held a concert exactly in the Beach Arena in Lignano.

If you haven’t reserved your audition through the website of the TV programme, you must go to the B stairs of the Beach Arena. Here you will receive a number and all the useful information for your audition.

Arm yourself with patience, because the two days will be very long: the auditions will begin at 11 a.m. and they will continue all day. During the wait you can have some fun with concerts and moments of entertainment offered by the X-Factor Casting Tour. It is not only two hot days of auditions, but also a real event also for people that are not interested to become a pop star and that want only enjoy an amusing beach holiday in Lignano.

The fight to enter in this programme is very strong. It is enough to think that until now more than 35,000 aspiring singers have supported an audition during the summer tour. In addition the TV programme begins in September this year, so authors need an exciting voice now.

The countdown to participate in the casting of X-Factor has begun. You still have little time for training in singing, but … do not sing too loud, or your neighbours in the apartments in Lignano will complain!

Lavender Festival in Lignano

The 18th and the 19th of July the city centre of Lignano Sabbiadoro dressed in violet, with large ribbons hanged up on the shops and on the lamps of the centre and a long violet carpet from San Giovanni Bosco Square to Fontana Square.

The beach of Lignano was not planing a “violet night” as many have thought, but the city was getting ready for a special party, the Venzone Lavender Festival.

In addition to the violet colour, that infects guests and shopkeepers of the seaside resort, the city was filled for an entire week end with a strong and relaxing scent of lavender.

On the violet carpet a lot of stands presented both lavender-based typical products and novelties: little bags and plants with nice pots gave off their characteristic scent near flavoured drinks, biscuits, soaps and cosmetics.
That was not only a local street market. The Venzone Lavender Association made a real event on the beach of Lignano, with meetings, folk dances and concerts by candlelight. All that characterized by the violet and by the scent of this incredible plant.

The Lavender Festival called also in Lignano Sabbiadoro the first competition “Violet Bike 2009”, open to all tourists and inhabitants that took part in this contest with their purple bikes.

The Festival was a special event that changed Lignano for an entire week end in a lavender field and it charmed tourists of the seaside resort.

The festival is now closed but the scent of lavender continue to drift through the air of Lignano Sabbiadoro.