
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
6 April 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
6 April 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

MOSTRE E CONVEGNI, ATTIVITÀ PER FAMIGLIE
Fishing and Lagoon Civilisation Museum
14 March 2025
Position: Via Orseolo, 22, Grado
The Museum of Fishing and Lagoon Civilisation was established to protect and preserve the history and culture of the "Casonera" civilisation, a community that lived permanently in the casoni (fishermen's huts) of the Grado Lagoon until after World War II, developing its own customs and traditions over the centuries, which remained unchanged until the early 20th century.
Opening hours:
MONDAY TO THURSDAY 09:30 - 13:00
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY 09:30 - 13:00/ 16:00 - 19:00
Admission to the museum is free of charge.

ARTE E TEATRO
Theatre season 2024/2025: Nel mezzo dell'inferno
4 April 2025
Position: Auditorium Biagio Marin, Grado
Programme dates:
- Friday 4 April, 3.00 pm
- Saturday, 6 April , 3.00 pm
- Sunday 7 April, 3.00 pm
Performance of the path IN SCENA!
Performance in VR - Virtual Reality with the use of visors for each spectator.
In italian language
recommended viewing for ages 14 and up
dramaturgy by Fabrizio Pallara and Roberta Ortolano
direction by Fabrizio Pallara
voices: Valerio Malorni (Virgil, Charon), Lorenzo Gioielli (Ulysses, Farinata degli Uberti, Count Ugolino) and Silvia Gallerano (Beatrice and Francesca)
music: Økapi
modelling and 3D animation: Massimo Racozzi
architectural environments design: Sara Ferazzoli
application development and VR implementation: Alessandro Passoni
co-production: LAC-Lugano Arte e Cultura and CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG as part of the project ‘D'ante Litteram - Dante Alighieri nostro contemporaneo’ recognised and supported by the National Committee for the Celebrations of 700 years since the death of Dante Aligheri of the MIC - Ministry of Culture
Franco Enriquez National Prize 2022 - 18th edition
Useful information:
Each spectator will participate in In the Middle of Hell alone and will be free to move around the stage and explore the space with virtual reality.
The experience lasts 35 minutes; on show days the time slots are as follows: 15.00 || 15.40 || 16.20 || 17.00 || 17.40 || 18.20 || 19.00 || 19.40 || 20.20 || 21.00 || 21.40 || 22.20.
During the subscription campaigns it will be possible to choose your own time. At the end of the subscription campaigns the remaining slots will be put on sale.
Dante composes Inferno while immersed in the alienating and painful experience of exile, far from home and burdened by the feeling of injustice. Through writing he thus invents the possibility of being the author and at the same time narrator and character of an experience of evolution and redemption that will be valid for himself but also for the rest of humanity.
The Dante protagonist of this journey into the realm of the afterlife understands that it is his relationship with others - in the sign of divine will - that sustains him and leads him on the path to salvation and happiness.
The contact with the spirits and monstrous presences he encounters, the profound bond with his master Virgil, and finally the ancient flame of love that connects him to Beatrice, no longer a mute angel to be celebrated, but a severe guide and authoritative source of courage.
Of this journey, Inferno represents the hardest part that puts the poet, and those who identify with him, in contact with profound frailties, fears and inadequacies, in the face of the diversity given by his being alive among the dead and therefore powerfully saved. Dante thus establishes the possibility of creating another world, specular and connected to the real one, in which the self can have a direct experience of transformation. This world is literature.
Similarly, in this theatrical and experiential project, the use of Immersive Virtual Reality technology has been chosen, combined with an architectural design of space and sound in 3D, in order to bring the audience into contact with the totality of a fantastic dimension, which is not intended to replace the real one, but to remain interconnected with it, representing a stimulus for research and change.
It will begin with a prologue: an initial space of welcome and recollection, which will confront each person with his or her own self and the question: Why make this journey? What desires and fears?
Wearing the visors, one by one the spectators will be accompanied beyond the wall that separates the hereafter from the hereafter and left to their own journey. The first part of which will be the same for all, while the second will randomly lead the spectators to three selected locations among the infernal environments and then lead them back to a common ending. The experience thus remains replicable and in itself open, because through contact with death it contains within itself all the possibilities of life.
Information:
tel: 0431 85834
email: biglietteria@ertfvg.it
Municipal Library
tel: 0431 82630
Culture Office
tel: 0431 898269