Events and tours
The Consorzio Grado Turismo will promote and support the events organised on the island but is not responsible for their organisation or for any changes to the programme that may occur without prior notice. In order to keep up to date with the latest news or any changes in the programme, we strongly recommend consulting the official websites of the organisers or of the local institutions involved.
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Guided tours and excursions
Discover Grado on your own with audio guides
28 March 2025
Thanks to the audioguide service available free of charge from the homepage of this website, discover the 20 main attractions on the Island of the Sun, grouped into three itineraries.
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ITINERARY
Guided tours and excursions
Excursions in the lagoon and to Barbana
28 March 2025
To discover the Lagoon you can take a motorboat trip to Porto Buso or go to the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the island of Barbana with the Motoscafisti Gradesi regular service (HERE the timetables). You can spend a pleasant day in the company of friends renting a boat and enjoying the beautiful waters and wild nature of the Banco d'Orio, or you can be accompanied by Taxi Boat or NCC between the casoni and mote...
- LAGUNA TAXI GRADO (Available all year round; not running the first week of March)
Laguna Taxi Grado offers excursions for small groups (up to 18 passengers) or individuals. Possibility of customised tours and transfers to the islands of Anfora, Francamela and Barbana. Departure from Riva San Vito, 5 (opposite Al Porto bar). For info www.lagunataxigrado.com, lagunataxigrado@gmail.com. Reservations + 39 339 5329064 (Andrea)
- LA PANORAMICA (From 10 February to 13 March boat under maintenance)
Boat rental with driver for up to 12 people; exclusive service designed for those wishing to discover the island from new perspectives. Excursions are also available at dawn and dusk and are ideal for celebrating special occasions such as birthdays, bachelor/bachelorette parties, company aperitifs, events, etc. Possibility of accommodating dogs on board and exclusive use of the boat for private parties. Departure from Darsena Navigare 2000, Via Serenissima 1-4. For information www.lapanoramicagrado.it, info@lapanoramicagrado.it. Reservations only on Whatsapp +39 342 0928886
- THE GRADO ISLAND TOUR
- WINTER EXCURSION
- SUNRISE OR SUNSET
- LUNCH ON THE ISLAND OF AMPHORA
- BATHING EXCURSION WITH APERITIF
- MIRAMARE AND THE TRIESTINA COAST
- STELLA RIVER AND "CASONI MARANESI" TOUR
- CUSTOMISED EXCURSIONS
- MIRKO BOAT - NCC (From January to April boat under maintenance)
Boat with driver dedicated to small groups of people for half or full day transfers and rentals; departure from RIVA S. SLATAPER - GRADO (in front of the Hotel Savoy). For information www.mirkotaxiboat-grado.com, info@mirkotaxiboat-grado.com; Tel +39 345 4686207;
- THE ISLAND OF BARBANA: travel time 30 min (return + stop);
- TOUR OF THE LAGOON: duration 60 min non-stop;
- ANFORA ISLAND/PORTOBUSO: travel time 50 min + 2 hours stop for lunch (not included);
- MARANO OR LIGNANO: travel time 1.30 min (return + stop).
- CUSTOMISED EXCURSIONS
- TAXI BOAT GRADO (From 10 January to 10 March boat under maintenance. Available for info and bookings)
Excursions in the Grado lagoon for individuals or small groups of up to 18 people. Departure from Porto Mandracchio, Riva San Vito, 5 (opposite Al Porto bar). For information www.taxiboat-grado.com, taxiboatgrado@gmail.com; Tel +39 339 2961866 (Mariel)
- LAGOON AND PORTOBUSO/ANFORA ISLAND "Trattoria ai Ciodi", with stopover
- ISLANDS&CASONI non stop
- LAGOON AND BARBANA ISLAND with stopover, duration 2 hours
- CUSTOMISED EXCURSIONS
Restaurants, bars, shops, services and accommodation open from January to March
1 January 2025
Position: Varie zone di Grado
Between January and March, many companies in Grado take advantage of this period of calm for a well-deserved rest and to dedicate themselves to professional growth and renewal. They close their doors to the public to make room for training courses, renovations and to recharge their batteries in view of the upcoming tourist season.
Not all the lights go out, however. Some businesses remain open, welcoming visitors and residents with their usual warmth and quality. Below you can find a list of the various types of businesses that will not be closing their doors, as well as the reopening dates of those that have chosen to take a break.
Grado is thus preparing to welcome spring with renewed energy,in order to offer ever richer and more satisfying experiences to its visitors.
BUSINESSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRADO TURISMO CONSORTIUM OPEN:
- RESTAURANTS / PIZZERIAS
- AI BRAGOSSI
- AL GRANAIO (Fiumicello) - Open every day, except MONDAY and TUESDAY
- ALLA VECCHIA MARINA - Open daily from 10.30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- AL TIMON - Open every day except WEDNESDAY.
- ALLA PACE
- CANEO - Restaurant from 19 March; bar open.
- DUCA D'AOSTA LOUNGE - Open every day except WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
- LA CIACOLADA PIZZERIA
- LA PERLA - Open every day except Tuesday. Opening hours: MON-WED 12 NOON-2.00 PM. THU-SUN 12 NOON-2.00 PM / 05.30-09.30 PM.
- LOSTERIA - Reopens mid-March
- RISTORANTE MAREA - Opening hours: 12 NOON - 3.00 PM / 6.00 PM - 09.30 PM
- PIZZERIA- PANINOTECA REBECHIN CAFFE ‘
- TRATTORIA PIZZERIA SANTA LUCIA - Until 10 April, closed on TUESDAYS and WEDNESDAYS. Other days open from 12.00 to 14.30 and from 18.30 to 22.30.
REOPENINGS:
- AL BOSCO - Reopens on 11th April
- ALTO GRADO SKY RESTAURANT & BAR - Reopens in April
- DA LUCIANO - Reopens 1st April
- LA DINETTE - Reopens on 10th April
- LA SIRENETTA - Reopens on 04th April
- MOTUS CONTEMPORARY BISTROT - Reopens the first week of April
- 7° CIELO RESTAURANT - Reopens 1st April
- BARS / TAVERNS / WINE BARS / PATISSERIES/ICESHOPS
- AL ANZOLO
- AL PORTEGO - Reopens on 10th February
- AMADEUS WINE BAR - In March open only SATURDAY and SUNDAY.
- COCAMBO (Aquileia) - From 11th January, open every day from TUESDAY to SUNDAY
- LA GIOIOSA ICE CREAM PARLOUR
- LA'DELACESA
- LA PICCOLA PERLA - Open every day except Tuesdays. Opening hours from 10.30-02.30 PM / 05.00 - 09.30 PM.
- MANZONI - Closed on WEDNESDAY
- MOSAICO (Aquileia)
- OSTARIA DA FILOMENA - Until the end of April, open every day except Tuesdays
- SETI CAFE ‘ - In January and February, open only FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS
- VINARIUM - Open daily from 08.00 to 01.00
- FOOD AND WINE SHOPS
- PESCHERIA LAGUNARE - Always open. SUNDAY-THURSDAY 08.00 -12.30; FRIDAY and SATURDAY 08.00 -12.30 / 16.00 -19-00
REOPENINGS:
- FRIULGOURMET - Reopens at the end of March
- L'ISOLA AL MERCATO - Reopens at the beginning of April
- WINE STORE - Reopens mid-March
- CLOTHING / FOOTWEAR / ACCESSORIES SHOPS
- AUSONIA SPORTSWEAR - Closed for shift on MONDAY
- COSE BELLE - In January and February, closed for shifts MONDAY and WEDNESDAY
- CRISALIDE
- FOTO OTTICA MAROCCO - Open THU 10 am-1 pm. FRI and SAT 10 am-1 pm / 3.30 pm-6.30 pm or by appointment. Closed on the first weekend of February.
- GENTE CALZATURE - Until 21 February, closed for shift on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, then open daily.
- ICS BOUTIQUE - Open from THURSDAY to SUNDAY. Timetable 10.30 am-1 pm / 3.30 pm-7 pm. Also open by appointment
- LE GIOIE
- NONSOLOVELA - Closed on MONDAY.
- ORICALCO GOLDENWARE LABORATORY - Open from TUESDAY to SATURDAY 9.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
- RIVA CAMPERIO - Open in winter 10.00-12.30/15.30-18.30. Closed on WEDNESDAY. Closed for holidays from 3rd to 19 th February.
- TIRELLI 2 - Closed for shift on MONDAY
- VILLA MORI
- YOURSELF BY PIVA - MONDAY to THURSDAY, available by appointment. Open FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY.
- ZANETTI_1998 - Until the end of February, open only FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS
REOPENINGS:
- FATTO A MANO - Reopens in March
- HAVAIANAS - Reopens early April
- SALSEDINE - Available by appointment +39 328 6330996
- SHOP GIT - Reopens on 1st May
- OTHER SHOPS AND SERVICES
- BEINSURANCE - by appointment +39 338 7889418
- COIFFEUR CESARE - Closed for shift SUNDAY and MONDAY
- EQUIPE ACCONCIATURE PAOLO E VALENTINA - In January and February, open from WEDNESDAY to SATURDAY
- FORA DE SUCA ACCONCIATURE - Closed for shifts SUNDAY and MONDAY
- FUMI E PROFUMI - Closed for SUNDAY shift
- LAGUNA TAXI GRADO - Upon reservation.
- LA PANORAMICA - Upon reservation.
- MAGENTA DESIGN
- NAUTIC MOTORS STORE - Until 30th April winter opening hours: Mon 2.30-6.00 p.m. TUE-FRI 08.30-12.30 / 14.30-18.00. SAT 08.00-12.30
- THERMAL POOL AND WELLNESS CENTRE GIT - Open every day except TUESDAYS. Opening hours 10.00 a.m - 07.00 p.m
- TOMBOLO E DISEGNI
REOPENINGS:
- MIRCO BOAT - Reopens in April
- TAXI BOAT GRADO - From 10th January to the end of March boat maintenance. Available for info and bookings.
- HOTEL
- GRAND HOTEL ASTORIA 4*S
- HOTEL FONZARI 4*
- HOTEL RIVA PALACE 4* - From 28th February to 6th April open only from Friday to Sunday; from 11th April open every day.
- HOTEL CANEO 3*
- HOTEL MAREA 3*
- APARTHOTEL / RESIDENCE:
- APARTHOTEL ATLANTIC 3*
- APARTHOTEL CAPITOL 3*
- APARTHOTEL MIRAMARE 3*
- APARTHOTEL HUNGARIA 2*
- APARTHOTEL ZEFIRO 1*
- B&B / GUESTHOUSE / MEUBLE
CAMPSITES / RESORTS
- REAL ESTATE AGENCIES
- ADRIATICA REAL ESTATE AGENCY
- ATHENA IMMOBILIARE
- AGENZIA FUTURA
- AGENZIA MARINA
- POLO IMMOBILIARE GRADO DI ELISA POLO (by appointment)
HOTEL REOPENING (until the beginning of April)
- HOTEL HANNOVER 4* - Reopens the 2nd of April
- HOTEL OCHE SELVATICHE 3* - Reopens in March
- HOTEL SIRENETTA 3* - Reopens on 04th April
APARTHOTEL REOPENING (until the beginning of April)
- APARTHOTEL SANREMO - Reopens on 04th April
- RESIDENCE APRILIA - Reopens on 04th April
- RESIDENCE CARLO - Reopens on 04th April
CAMPSITES / RESORTS REOPENING
- PUNTA SPIN 4* - Reopens 12th April
- VILLAGGIO TURISTICO EUROPA 4* - Reopens 12th April
- CAMPING AL BOSCO 2* - Reopens 10th April
ARTE E TEATRO
Theatre season 2024/2025: L'inferiorità mentale della donna
28 March 2025
Position: Auditorium Biagio Marin, Grado
At 8.45 pm
In italian language
An evergreen of reactionary thought in music and words loosely inspired by Paul Julius Moebius' treatise The Mental Inferiority of Women.
by Giovanna Gra
with Veronica Pivetti
directed by Gra & Mramor
with Anselmo Luisi
soundtrack and musical arrangements: Alessandro Nidi
costumes by Nicolao Atelier Venezia
lighting by Eva Bruno
production: ArtistiAssociati in collaboration with Pigra srl
duration: 75 minutes, without intermission
Can the idea that women have been considered, for centuries, physiologically deficient suggest anything to us?
Our show stems from this question and stages texts that few people know, among the most discriminating, paradoxical and, despite themselves, hilarious rational writings of the last century.
Veronica Pivetti, modern Mary Shelley tells us, thanks to bizarre theories of science and medicine, about the only true, horrifying Frankenstein of modern history: WOMEN.
‘How are things about the sexes? An old proverb suggests: long hair, short brain'.
So began Paul Julius Moebius - assistant in the Leipzig neurology section - in the little compendium ‘The Mental Inferiority of Women’ written in 1900, aptly called an evergreen of reactionary thought.
Women with small skulls, insufficient brain weight... according to Moebius, ladies are endowed with a total lack of their own judgement. ‘What is more, after a few pregnancies they decay and, as they say very vulgarly, go senile’.
Not only that. Women who pretend to think are harassed and ‘reflection only makes them worse’.
These statements are echoed by the Italian physician, anthropologist, jurist and criminologist Cesare Lombroso: women lie and often kill, say the proverbs of all regions.
Fortunately, the brains of healthy women weigh more than those of criminal women. And here is a quick excursus on excellent crimes, for example that committed by Agrippina, or by Leonarda Cianciulli, the soap-maker of Correggio.
‘Women have only one enemy,’ Moebius raises, ’time, to which, however, after a few years of marriage they succumb, either by becoming fools or by drying up in the form of extravagant old maids.
Moreover, where there is talent, the female psyche manifests an obvious psychic hermaphroditism.
Sylvain Maréchal, writer, lawyer and self-styled revolutionary, with his ‘Bill to prohibit women from reading’ argues that ‘learning to read is for women something superfluous and detrimental to their natural learning’, on the other hand, ‘reason wants women to count the eggs in the yard and not the stars in the firmament’.
Accompanying Veronica on stage is a musician who, together with the actress, will perform old and new songs inspired by the female figure.
With this performance, embellished by delirious measurements of the cephalic index to which Veronica subjects herself with her irony, we will reach the acme of macho culture. A patient herself - due to a past depression - Pivetti does not fail to tell the audience some singular personal episodes and to remind us, in the words of Lombroso, that... ‘the male is a more perfect female’.
Information:
tel: 0431 85834
email: biglietteria@ertfvg.it
Municipal Library
tel: 0431 82630
Culture Office
tel: 0431 898269
EVENTI LETTERARI, ATTIVITÀ PER FAMIGLIE
Readings, little ones...
7 February 2025
Position: Biblioteca Civica F. Marin, Grado
Reading in a low voice with volunteer readers for children aged 0 to 6 years old
- 17-24-31 January 2025
- 7-14-21-28 February 2025
- 7-14-21-28 March 2025
at 16.30 in the “Falco Marin” Civic Library
If you can get children to love a book, or two or three, they will begin to think that reading is fun. So maybe, when they grow up, they will become readers. And reading is one of the greatest pleasures and tools of our life.
Roald Dahl
For information
+39 0431 82630
biblioteca@comunegrado.it
EVENTI LETTERARI
Thematic reading group at the Ubik bookshop in Grado - Metamorphoseōn!
28 March 2025
Position: Libreria Ubik, viale Europa Unita, 22 Grado
8.00 p.m.
Join the thematic reading group at the Ubik bookshop in Grado!
- THE NOSE
- THE COAT
If you are a book lover, don't miss the bi-weekly reading meetings at the Ubik Bookshop in Grado, where some of the most significant works of contemporary literature will be explored.
