Lignano Sabbiadoro

Lignano Sabbiadoro [ liɲa ː no sab ː i̯adɔ ː ro] ( Friulian: Lignan ) is a seaside town on the Italian Adriatic coast in the province of Udine, in the Friuli - Venezia Giulia region (Friuli- Venezia Giulia ) with 6616 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). The place consists of three parts: Sabbiadoro ( in the northeast, eponymous for the entire site), Pineta and Riviera ( at the mouth of the Tagliamento ).

Geography

Lignano extends in the form of a peninsula on the north-eastern half of the Tagliamento River Delta on the Lagoon of Marano and the open Adriatic. The landscape is flat and was, until a few decades ago a swampy area that was infected with malaria.

The municipality is bounded on the north by the littoral Veneto. This connects the Tagliamento with the lagoon of Marano.

Districts

Lignano Sabbiadoro is the center of the peninsula and consists of numerous hotels, bars, shops and apartments. A central shopping street, which is mainly met in the summer of life, leading from the Viale Centrale on the newly built pedestrian zone to the Terrazza a Mare on the spigot of the peninsula. The beach in Porto is divided into nineteen different sections, which have a different screen color. In the city there are numerous fountains and squares, there is also a church in Porto. The one-way street along the beach of Porto called Lungomare Trieste.

Lignano Pineta is a little quieter in the middle of the three parts of the city and was created in the 1950s. The streets run at a distance of 100 meters from the center of Pineta starting in a spiral outward. Pineta is located in a pine forest, in which hotels, apartments and houses are located. The houses are slightly apart. The only shopping street located in the center of Pineta. It leads from the church to the sea and has shops and cafes on. In the Pineta beach is divided into five sections. The road along the beach is, in Pineta Lungomare Adriatico.

Lignano Riviera is situated at the mouth of the Tagliamento and is still quieter than Pineta. In Riviera are only a few hotels, but several campgrounds, a golf course and a marina on the Tagliamento.

The boundary between Pineta and Riviera, the Kursaal at the resort of Lignano represents the Tagliamento separates Riviera of Bibione and also represents the border between Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia dar.

Terrazza a Mare

The Terrazza a Mare was inaugurated in 1972. On it there is a bar and a nightclub.

Traffic

After Lignano since the 1950s, leads a four-lane road. SS 354

City ​​beautification

In recent years, were redesigned in Lignano many streets and squares. It wants to attract with these renovations again more tourists to Lignano.

A few examples:

• The pedestrian zone in Sabbiadoro through the entire city and is under the day to ride single track. It was built between 2003 and 2006.
• The square in front of the church in Pineta was refurbished in 2007.
• Furthermore, in 2002 there were efforts on the coast Pineta with Sabbiadoro by a common coastal road to connect, but this plan was dropped back.

History

The name of Lignano for the area of the present town (which in 1420 fell to the Republic of Venice) is occupied from the 15th century and possibly indicates an owner named Linunus. The Venetian Doge mortgaged throughout history various noble families with the piece of land. One of them, Vendramin Family Latisana was in the 16th century, the St. Zacharias Church in the then hamlet Pineda build (today district Pineta). It served mainly fishermen, because Pineda itself was too small for a church (there was only 1466 of two houses ). For the port of Lignano there was later a control station, which in 1813 had 70 inhabitants.

Nevertheless, today's Lignano is a very young city. Prior to their development, the peninsula consisted of marsh and tree land and was inhabited throughout the year by only a few farming families. Then there were the seasonal visits by fishermen from Marano, who lived temporarily in wooden huts lined with reeds ( casoni ).

The oldest part is Sabbiadoro ( in German: golden sand), which has already availed the end of the 19th century Marano from the boat as a swimming beach. 1903-1904 a bathhouse was constructed of wood and used especially of Sunday excursionists.

The first hotel ( Marin, the mayor of Marano was one ) was built in 1905, followed by the hotels in Friuli and Vittoria. Nevertheless, the further development of Lignano was because of the marsh -related malaria then questionable and also suffered by the First World War a further setback.

1924, the first lakeside terrace was completed ( at the site of today's Terrazza al mare, a project of the architect Provino Valle), with the stagnation of Lignano again boomed. Another important point was the better land access by a new road from Latisana to Lignano with a rotating bridge over a channel therebetween, and the eradication of malaria by draining the wetlands. In the 1930s, a children's camp and a church were built. At that time numbered about 60,000 mostly Italian Lignano summer guests. In 1935 the town name was added for promotional reasons, the addition Sabbiadoro.

In the 1950s, the establishment of Lignano Pineta was (named after the local pine forest ) southwest of Porto. There Marcello D' Olivio realized a very unusual urban plan: a road which, starting in a spiral leading from the center to the outside Pineta. The individual turns of this spiral at a distance of 100 meters.

1959 Lignano was a separate municipality. The economic boom caused by the mass tourism was then allowed to increase the number of vacationers from 1.8 million ( the early 1960s ) to over 6 million (1975). This record has since not been reached.

Twinning

• United States Ketchum (USA)
• Austria Eisenstadt ( Austria )