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Pop.: 5,828
Area: 15,63 sq. km, 2 m a.s.l.
Neighbourhoods: Lignano City, Lignano Pineta
Town Hall: V.le Europa 26 - 33054 Lignano Sabbiadoro
Phone.: 0431.409111 Fax: 0431.73288
www.comune.lignano-sabbiadoro.ud.it
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The aerial view of Lignano is
breathtaking. In a correct
geological interpretation of the
always changing lagoon system, the
peculiar hook-shaped peninsula
combining natural and man-made
environment stretching out towards the long
island of S. Andrea, was once attached to the
island itself, creating a single environment in
which the lands above sea level prevailed
over the
waters, hence
the hypothesis of
a route from Ravenna
to Aquileia in the placid
internal waters of the
lagoon, with safe regular calls
at localities as must have been Porto
Lignano, from which probably also a coastal itinerary started towards Aquileia. In
early medieval and medieval ages its role
progressively declined, owing to different
political scenarios and to the
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growth of other
important ports, so that from the 1700s to
the early 1990s Lignano was reduced to
a nondescript fishing
village, mostly
isolated
from the
mainland.
Even the earliest
pioneer hotels built
before the Great War
welcomed holiday-makers
on barges sailing from Marano
or Precenicco. It was only after the
Second World War that Lignano
achieved a definite improvement dividing in
four complementary adjacent centres meeting
requirements that vary greatly as for age range and
interests. The first of the four centres was
Lignano Sabbiadoro, located at
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the farthest
end of the peninsula crowding up onto the
port, where a long, untouched stretch of the
finest sand held a great tourist appeal.
Between 1953 and 1956 the splendid
ultramodern project by Marcello D'Olivo for
Lignano Pineta, envisaging the spiral
development of the main streets and houses
farther form the street and immersed in the
luxurious vegetation, so as to lessen the
environmental impact. Even though such
plan was not rigidly applied, Lignano
Pineta is nonetheless the living example of
how progress and environment,
functionality and fancy may co-exist. After
that, the residential centres of Lignano
City and Lignano Riviera were created,
the latter devised for the lovers of holidays
in close contact with nature, absorbing the
most significant relic of the old pine forest
of Lignano integrated in other green spaces
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as the Zoo Park of Punta Verde and the
Hemingway Park, created as a memorial
to the American writer who, fascinated with
the beauty of this land he had chosen
as his future home, defined Lignano
"the Florida of Italy". Even though walking
through Lignano contemporary
buildings of little architectural and creative
value are seen, the resort still offers the
possibility of appreciating the works of
renown contemporary designers as
Pietro Zanini, Gianni Avon and
Aldo Bernardis, and the already-mentioned
D'Olivo. Last but not least, the lovely
votive church of S. Maria (15th cent.)
was transferred in this seaside resort from
the close town of Bevazzana to protect it
from the repeated dangers of floods.
Inside it shows a beautiful cycle
of sacred frescoes and sinopias dating
to the same period.
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The name "Bassa"
identifies the Friuli plains
extending towards the Adriatic,
beginning more or less from the so-called
Stradalta (just a bit south
of the present-day
Strada
Napoleonica),
namely below the line of
resurgences from which
rivers or streams or
simply natural springs
often originate,
contributing to shaping the...go
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