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Lignano Pineta is the favourite resort for those tourists, that want to spend a holiday in the nature, surrounded by pine wood, but near the beach and the sparkling city centre. The energy of the summer on the beach of Lignano Pineta and in the clubs and restaurants along the commercial street called “train” (treno), led in this area of the city to become a new point of reference also for the younger. Here it is possible find the fun on the golden sand during the day and in fashion clubs and discotheques from evening until late at night.

Besides families, which spend relaxing holiday with all amusements for children, hotels in Lignano Pineta welcome now also the younger, attracted also by animation on the beach and by many events in cafés and clubs.

From 1st of June, in fact, it has started the animation on the beach during the day at Fun Village, which is located between beach office no. 3, English flag, and beach office no. 4, Italian flag.

Fun Village is the novelty of the summer 2011 on the beach of Lignano Pineta. Seven animators of Animavera team, from 1st of June to 10th of September, will entertain adults and children on the beach in this fun village, every day from 10.00 to 12.00 and from 16.00 to 18.30 with lessons of muscle toning, water gym, dance, baby dance and mini-club for children.

And in the evening the animation moves in the beautiful Sea Park (Parco del Mare) at PalaPineta. Sea Park is the feather in the cap of Lignano Pineta: a green park that reaches the beach, where it is possible both take a rest on the shadow of the pines that do sport at different levels with the life course. Neat flower beds, winding paths, water fountains and benches allow guests to reach the beach from the hotels in Lignano Pineta with a short and relaxing walk. Just inside of this little paradise there is PalaPineta, the building that hosts the evening animation for all guests of Lignano. From 21.30 baby dance for children and then cabaret shows, musicals, ballet, group dances and special evening in which also guests can take the stage together with the animators.

The entire animation activity, both on the beach and in PalaPineta, is open to all guests on holiday in Lignano and it is completely free.

In addition, Lignano Pineta offers its guests different events, where they can take an active part alongside artists: it is the case of Mosaic’s Symposium, that for the first year takes place in Marcello D’Olivo square, near the beach. This event continues the path drawn by the ten editions of the International Symposium of Sculpture, that took place in Sea Park, and also in this new adventure guests can watch artists and enter with them some tessera in the mosaics.

The Symposium will end Sunday 12th of June with a ceremony with authorities and tourists: mosaics, protected under tents, will be discovered and they will be explained by the artists. Who want to take a look or follow step by step the final preparations of the works, can do it in Marcello D’Olivo square.

This is only an example of the events in which guests of Lignano Pineta and its hotels can take part. In fact, also this year there are the loved “Meetings with wine and author” (Incontri con il vino e l’autore) in Tenda Bar, the many sports tournaments in Marcello D’Olivo square, evening shows in Sole square and very much more, for a summer full of fun in the nature of Lignano Pineta.

In Lignano Pineta the fantastic "Incendio del Mare"

Also this year Lignano Pineta is preparing for the event of August 16th with fireworks. After the pyrotechnics of Ferragosto in Lignano Sabbiadoro, has become tradition that the next night is the time of the beach of Lignano Pineta with its spectacular “Incendio del Mare” (Sea fire).

A name chosen not a random: besides the beautiful fireworks in the sky, every year special fireworks are shot from the boat Aussa, moored 300 m from the beach, and from pier of Pagoda in Lignano Pineta. Fireworks bouncing on the water and light waterfalls that colour the sea with the colours of the fire, to simulating the burning sea. From this feature, organizers have decided to call their fireworks “Incendio del Mare” (Sea fire).

Every year in August 16th the beach of Lignano Pineta welcomes thousands people that wait with trepidation for the beginning of the show. Last summer was registered the record: 50.000 people, both tourists accommodate in hotels of Lignano and commuters come expressly for the show, followed the event on the beach, on the overhead walkway of Pineta and on the terraces of the beach-bars. Great charme and appeal have exercised “the souls of fires”, white and red lights that fell down slowly on the sea thanks to very small parachutes, novelty of 2009.

Who knows what novelties and spectacular choreographies of colours and shapes reserves the 16th year of “Incendio del Mare”. There is a lot of curiosity and certainly also this year there will be new special lights and colours, to repeat the huge success of the last summer.

The beginning of the fireworks is at 11.30 p.m., a time chosen to allow to have dinner quietly both in restaurants and in the hotels of Lignano and then to go to the beach. The fame attained in the years by this event is so great that now it is one of the greatest and most acclaimed fireworks of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. This is demonstrated also by the many spectators that come the same evening in Lignano from neighbouring towns, in addition to all tourists that spend their holiday during these days in the hotels of Lignano Pineta. Most part of them goes on foot or by bicycle to the beach, without moving the car in a busy evening and taking the opportunity for a stroll in the centre of Pineta.

At 11.30 p.m. people overflow into the beach and the terraces of the bars, trying to bag a good place to watch the show. But the party for the Incendio del Mare starts already at 9 p.m. with the concert “Aspettando i fuochi” (Waiting for the fireworks), on the square of Piazza D’Olivo. Also this year has been confirmed the team Pellizzari-Giulia-Ballaben, known band that will accompany with its music all tourists until the beginning of fireworks.

And surely there will be a lot of applauses, the best way to thank the organizers of the “Incendio del Mare” and all businesses that contribute to the excellent success of the evening: associations, dealers and hotels of Lignano Pineta. Thanks to their economic and organizational effort, allow the physically creation of the evening.

See you at August 16th from 9.00 p.m. in Lignano Pineta for the 16th “Incendio del Mare”.

Lignano Pineta, location of Barcamania 2010

It approaches the second week end for the event Barcamania, 3rd small boat exhibition in Lignano Sabbiadoro.

Barcamania, organised and promoted by Ente Fiere Lignano, is having good success also this year, despite the quirks of the weather of the last week end and the change of location. For the first time, the exhibition is located in Lignano Pineta, along the shopping street called “treno” (train) until the beautiful and big Piazza a Mare, where visitors can enjoy large yachts, more than 10 metres, of different brands. The new location allows also to display a greater number of boats, over a hundred.

The show of small boats draws in Lignano a large number of fans, who have the chance to contact directly the dealer and to have proof of the product. In addition, Lignano is the right place for small boats: a still sea where it is possible to make a lot of excursions to typical small isles, as the Isola di Sant’Andrea (St Andrew Isle) or Porto Buso and enjoy very good fish dishes, to the Marano Lagoon or to the mouth of Stella river, regional wildlife park, or to the towns of Veneto and of the Istrian coast.

Barcamania is to all intents and purposes an event, a chance for many visitors and Lignano’s lovers to spend a pleasant spring day among the several stands of exhibitors and associations of the area related to the sea activities.
Between a boat and the other, visitors can enjoy tasty typical fish dishes offered by the Marano fishermen, or to discover how the Civil Defence works during emergencies that occur in Lignano and surroundings or to ask advices about the safety at sea. In addition, the programme of the event includes meetings and many free demonstrations and tests of sport clubs, as the kite surf and windsurf tests on the beach of Lignano Pineta and the tests in water on small dinghies for children from 8 to 13 years old, under the supervision of the world champion Del Pin, testimonial of Barcamania. This event is also a very good opportunity to play breathtaking water sports with experienced teachers, who can give useful information about courses and school in the area.

The call of Barcamania becomes increasingly and it is an important moment for the whole territory, not only for the “awakening” of Lignano. This year the event forged a partnership with the Movimento Turismo del Vino del Friuli Venezia Giulia, that has provided “Wine bus” to reach Lignano Pineta from regional capitals.

The aim of Barcamania and of the other event organised by Ente Fiere Lignano is to promote the Friulian seaside resort all year round, especially during the dead season through some crowd-pulling events. Important point of this project is to create synergies with the associations both of the Friulian beach and of the surroundings to have tourist flows also in different periods of the year. In this way the businesses of the seaside resorts, as cafés, agencies and hotels in Lignano, can extend the working season and find new tourist flows.

The summer season 2010 has not yet began, but Lignano Sabbiadoro, particularly its beach of Pineta, has already won the prestigious award “Oscar Beaches” (Bagni da Oscar).

This prize has been awarded by the monthly magazine “Beaches of Italy” (Spiagge d’Italia) not only to Lignano but also to Grado. So the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia gains two Oscars for its two beautiful beaches, classified among the best 10 Italian beaches for families.

The welcome of the hotels of Lignano, the presence of recreational activities for adults and children, the chance to make sport in the open air and in very good sport facilities and especially the attention to the nature and the offer of a city rich in tourist services, are qualities already known and awarded with the famous European Blue Flag. In addition to this flag that waves for 19 consecutive years in the golden beach on the upper Adriatic Sea, Lignano can now boast also the Oscar for the innovatory marketing.

This Oscar concerns the technological offer of the beach of Lignano Pineta, particularly the wireless technology, used to inform guests under the beach umbrellas of the seven beach offices about the animation services, events, shows and cultural meetings in the seaside resort. In this way tourists were informed about news of Lignano and the success of this innovation has been found in most public presence in the various events.

This service will be available also during the summer 2010 and all tourists in Lignano will know in a simple, fast and free way the events and the services in the seaside resort. Also the guests of the hotels in Lignano Pineta like the Croce di Malta, in their part of private beach, will be reached by the information. The service, as matter of fact, covers all seven beach offices of the Lignano Pineta beach, for a total of 4000 beach umbrellas.

Technology is present not only in the coast of Lignano Pineta. Also Lignano Sabbiadoro is on the cutting edge: its beach disposes of free wifi connection, allowing tourists to surf the Net through smart phones or laptops directly from the beach umbrella or while sipping a drink in a café on the beach.

In this way guests of the friulian beach have the chance to connect in every moment both in and out the hotel of Lignano and they are always updated about the events. The most part of the hotels in Lignano offers among the services, the internet connection in the rooms, or in the hall or in the lounges like the Croce di Malta.

The continuous pursuit of the innovation shows the attention that Lignano turns to tourists, that have the need to surf the Net also during the holiday to know the events of the seaside resort, the most interesting cities and towns in the surroundings and also to update their profile in various social networks. The award “Oscar Beaches” for the innovative marketing of the Lignano Pineta beach shows that the investment in the innovation is important also for the resorts like Lignano, which continues to meet several awards and to welcomes more and more tourists in its beautiful golden beach.

Great Sand Nativity in Lignano Sabbiadoro

If you wish to see a very special Christmas crib, you must visit the Great Sand Nativity in Lignano.

On the square in front of Terrazza a Mare, visitors can admire an entire Christmas crib made of sand, with a lot of figures, animals and houses, every day from December the 6th to January the 6th.

In Lignano Sabbiadoro, from several years, artists of the Sand Academy in Rome, make the Nativity scene using the same sand where in the summer season children play and tourists lie in the sun. In about twenty days, under a covered structure in front of Terrazza a Mare, artists work more than 180 cubic meters of sand with different techniques to realize the sculptures of the crib, that has always a different subject.

Every year the Nativity is in a particular scenario, surrounded by the figures that live in this world and by important personalities of the history of Lignano. The same scene of the Nativity is presented each time in a different way: it can be the heart of the scene or it may be part of the scenario, and so be a natural element among the different characters.
The Great Sand Nativity offers children the chance to have fun, discovering sand animals that artists hidden inside the scene.

In the covered structure, pictures and films show the moments of the production of sculptures and also the used techniques, while a little area offers visitors the chance to buy calendars, postcards and bookmarks of the Great Sand Nativity Scene, as a reminder of the Christmas time in Lignano.

And to combat the cold, there is hot chocolate and mulled wine offered by the non-profit association Lignano in Fiore, organizer of the Sand Nativity and many other events throughout the year in the Friulian beach. The aim of this association is to realize projects for poor children in the region and in different countries of the world with the collected offerings.

In addition to the Great San Nativity in city centre, another very important meeting point is the Nativity scene in Lignano Pineta, few meters from the entrance of the seaside resort. For many years there is here an outdoor Nativity, more simple than that of sand, but also beautiful and full of love, because it is made by people who live in that area.

For residents of Lignano Pineta and Riviera, this is the meeting point during the Christmas time to drink some glass of mulled wine or prosecco and to taste special dishes.

Other Christmas cribs are located in the churches of Lignano Sabbiadoro and Pineta and also these are made by volunteers and children of the schools. Children have also the chance to contribute to the realization of an original Nativity scene, the “Crib in motion”. During the Christmas time children can bring a statue of the crib and choose where to place it. In this way, thanks to the continuing contribution of the children, the crib is always “moving”, with new figures.

Despite shops and hotels in Lignano are closed and the beach has no beach umbrellas, the city offers also during the Christmas time the chance to spend very special days, discovering small masterpieces.

Visit Lignano in this period, and Merry Christmas!