Bibione: warm sea, good prices and a short journey - Horydoly.cz - Outdoor Generation

Agenzia Europa is the biggest operator in Bibione and Lignano.

ETGroup rents apartments, holiday apartments, family houses, villas, bungalows and private rooms. ETGroup Hotels offers accommodation in hotels. Europa Real Estate mediates foreign investments.

Adherents of active movement also add a dense network of cycle paths and all the water sports they can think of. They don't forget the nearby Belun and Friuli Dolomites as well as the Julian Alps.

Lovers of monuments will certainly visit the ancient city of Aquileia and the medieval fortress of Palmanova.

Gourmets will enjoy typical Mediterranean cuisine with fish, seafood and vegetables, washed down with the local heavy red Refosco wine. The autochthonous DOC Refosco is a very old variety that was already cultivated here by the Celts, then by the Romans, and today it is in the hands of Italian winemakers. The historian Hérodianos described the surroundings of the city of Aquileia as a famous wine region already in the 3rd century.

Those who feel like traveling can rent a car or a scooter and explore the entire Venetian Riviera between Trieste and Venice. There are so many monuments here that a lifetime would not be enough to visit them. You will definitely visit Venice itself, the pearl of the Adriatic on a lagoon full of palaces, bridges, canals and ships. You will look at Trieste, the most important port of the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. It is not far from the ancient university of Padua or ancient Verona, where the world-famous love story of Romeo and Juliet took place.

The resorts of Bibione and Lignano

Around the huge Marano lagoon, there are holiday resorts that every European knows. They were modernized in the 90s of the last century and crowds of Czech, Polish and German tourists immediately began to pour into them. Nevertheless, the Italians have managed to maintain the natural character of the lagoon, which is protected because of the marine animals and the coastal landscape full of islets, shoals and beaches.

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Laguna Marano is fed, in addition to the salt water of the Adriatic Sea, by fresh water from two large rivers, the Tagliamento, which originates in the Dolomites near Tre Cime di Lavaredo, and the Soča / Isonzo, which flows from the Julian Alps from Triglav.

The two most famous resorts of Lignano and Bibione are large-capacity holiday resorts. They are very close to each other and therefore have many kilometers of wide beaches connected. The heated sand slowly sinks into the warm and calm waters of the Adriatic. A large part of hotels and residences is built in pleasant greenery.

Bibione itself has an eight kilometer long sandy beach.

Water and amusement parks operate on the shores. Long coastal promenades are used for romantic walks late into the night and during the day they are alive with a large number of shops, boutiques, cafes, bars and restaurants.

Where and how to live in Bibione

Bibione has an extremely rich infrastructure aimed at spending a family holiday. There are countless children's attractions and animation programs, a varied offer of sports activities, famous Italian gastronomy in pizzerias, fish shops, classic restaurants and markets.

Quiet neighborhoods in Bibione

Bibione falls administratively under the inland town of San Michele al Tagliamento in the province of Venice. It has three thousand permanent residents. Three hundred thousand visitors come here in the summer. It is divided into Lido dei Pini around the lighthouse, Spiaggia and Lido del Sole on the main beach and Pineda at the mouth of the Tagliamento river into the sea.

Lido dei Pini

Translation: pine bank

The urban district extends around the lighthouse, where Bibione ends and Lignano begins. Half of its area is occupied by nature. The beach with stone breakwaters is not suitable for swimming and is used by locals and tourists for a romantic walk to the lighthouse and back. However, you cannot get to Lignano, which lies across the river, because there is no bridge over the river.

This area is home to Pluto Beach, a dedicated beach for dogs and their owners.

Spiaggia

Translation: beach

Spiaggia is the largest and busiest part of Bibione in the very center of the resort. Here you will find an amusement park, a central market, a main square, many sports fields and thermal baths. Nightlife here is rich. Somewhat away from the center are children's playrooms, bike and quad bike rentals, restaurants, ice cream parlors and other tourist attractions. The beach here is the largest and the most people sunbathe on it. You have to reserve a sunbed and it is usually not possible to change it. Behind the beach is the city promenade and beyond that a row of hotels, behind which are bungalows and then the main street.

Lido del Sole

Translation: sunny shore

The quiet city district of Lido del Sole is adjacent to the lively Spiaggia. It is suitable for families with children. Most of the accommodation is provided by small houses. Important is the sports center with mini golf, tennis courts, table tennis, a football field and a go-kart track.

Pineda

Translation: pine wood

In this part of Bibione, near the mouth of the Lovi, Lugugnana and Meotta canals into the sea, there are four campsites and a marina. This determines the composition of the visitors - they like peace, sleep under tents or in caravans and are possibly fans of yachting or sekayaking.

Grado and Caorle are located in the neighborhood

Grado is located across the Marone lagoon on the other side of Bibione. Traditional beaches have given their names to many swimming pools in Bohemia and Moravia - let's remember, for example, Tišnov, Čelákovice, Jinonice, Davle... After all, the nearby Lido and the Venetian Riviera indirectly named other Czech swimming pools.

Grado has a long history dating back to the ancient Roman Empire. Back then, it served as the port of the prosperous city of Aquileia, which itself lies five kilometers inland. Against this, there is a completely new settlement in Bibione, because even after the 2nd world war there were swamps full of mosquitoes in its place. It was only in 1959 that the first poplars were planted here and the soil began to dry out.

Closer to Venice lies Caorle, a medieval port, today combining modern architecture and historical monuments into a magical whole. The writer Ernest Hemingway wrote the love novella Over the River in the Shadow of the Trees here, according to which we can still be intoxicated by the wonderful atmosphere of the Venetian Riviera.

1. trip tip: Aquileia

Treasure of world history Aquileia is a protected monument on the UNESCO list. In ancient times it was one of the important military points of the Roman Empire, in the Middle Ages it became the Patriarchate of Aquileia, a powerful ecclesiastical principality.

During its heyday in the 4th century, at the turn of Antiquity and Christianity, 300,000 inhabitants lived here, today it has 3,500 permanent residents.

It was originally a Celtic settlement of Akilis, founded by the Karn tribe from the Alpine Carinthia (Kärnten). The legendary Veneti (they founded Venice) and the Illyrians (the border with their Balkan territory ran here) also lived here. The Roman consuls Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasice, Gaius Flaminius and Lucius Manlius Acidinus were sent by the Senate in 181 BC to found the city of Aquileia. In addition to soldiers, they also took 3,000 Roman colonists with them. They were later joined by families of military veterans.

Emperor Augustus elevated Aquileia to the capital of the province of Venetia et Histria Venecia and Histria. The luxurious city was called the second Rome at the time. It controlled the region of today's Friuli from the Adriatic Sea in the south to the Alps in the north, from Trieste to Tarvisio and including Verona, Brescia, Trento and a piece of Austrian Carinthia.

The famous Amber Route ended in Aquileia, where amber was transported from the Baltic through Vienna (Carnuntum and Vindobona), and from there it was further exported to various parts of the Roman Empire.

Under the emperor Septimius Severus, a magnificent forum (square), the basilica of the administrative building was built. Emperor Claudius completed the construction of a river port connecting the seaport of Grado with the hinterland, the ruins of which can still be seen today. The paradox is that the river flows elsewhere. It happened in 361, when Emperor Iulianus the Apostate besieged the city during the civil war and in the process had the course of the river changed, thus cutting off the port from the water.

Emperor Diocletian placed a strong military garrison in the city. At that time, Aquileia was among the largest cities and could be equal to Rome, Antioch and Alexandria.

From Aquileia, the Roman road Via Iulia Augusta led over the Plöckenpass to Lienz. Today, some parts of it are part of the road body of a busy road along the same route.

In the 4th century, a large Christian basilica was built here at the request of Emperor Constantine, who stopped the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Next to it there is also a baptistery, or a building intended only for baptism given in a pool of cold water. The basilica was later damaged by the Huns, but the mosaics on the floor can still be admired today. It is the largest preserved early Christian mosaic area ever.

Aquileia was in mortal danger several times after Christ.

In 167, the Marcomani and the Quadians attacked the city from across the Danube, when they breached the fortifications of the Limes Romanus. However, Emperor Marcus Aurelius defeated them and pushed them back into barbarian territory.

Around 400, Aquileia was besieged twice by the Visigothic king Alarich I, but the city defended itself. The king later conquered Rome.

In 452, the Huns led by Attila, after a three-month siege, breached the walls with a random shot and looted the city. Part of the population escaped and founded Venice. Others moved to Grado, which was then an independent island.

In the 6th century, Aquileia passed into the hands of the Ostrogoths, then the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and finally the Lombards. During their rule, the original big city fell into a small-town province, and it remained that way for the next fifteen hundred years until the present day.

In 787 Aquileia was occupied by the Franks under the command of Charlemagne.

The Aquileian Patriarchate was among the most important. Among other things, he sent missionaries to Great Moravia. In 1085, Svatobor (Fridrich), the only son of the Přemyslov prince Spytihněv II, became patriarch. A year later, he was murdered in a street fight.

In the 15th century, the Venetians took control of Friuli and the seat of the Aquileian patriarch was transferred to Venice.

The patriarchate was abolished in 1751, after disputes between the Venetians and the Austrians over territorial claims to Friuli (Fruli). Two patriarchates were created, one in Udine (today Italy) the other in Gorizia (today on the border of Italy and Slovenia), which still function today.

Fifteen rare historical objects can be seen in Aquileia. The excavation tour is free. There is no entrance fee to the basilica. Photography is allowed without flash and without a tripod. There is a fee to enter the museum, crypt and baptistery.

2. trip tip: Palmanova

15 kilometers north of Aquileia lies the magnificent fortress town of Palmanova. By the way, a perfect cycle path leads here almost on a flat level.

Palmanova is an example of military engineering, similar to Czech Terezín or Josefov. Just before 1600, it began to defend the rich Republic of Venice against the Ottoman Empire. Her secondary task was to control Croatian Uskoks, raiders and pirates. The last construction modifications took place during the Napoleonic Wars.

Palmanova has been imprisoned for four hundred years in a nine-pointed rosette of walls, ditches and bastions. Old roads and moats lead behind the triple walls. You can enter the city through only three gates - Porta Cividale, Porta Aquileia and Porta Udine.

HISTORICAL MAP Palmanova approx. 1600 Click to open a large map. Illustrators: Georg Braun and Frantz Hogenberg

In the middle of the city is the empty gigantic square Piazza Grande. It was used for embarkations and parades of the fortress military garrison. At its head shines the white Duomo, a Renaissance cathedral.

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