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
8 March 2024
Thanks to the new 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
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Porto Mandracchio
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Castrum
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Basilica Santa Maria delle Grazie
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Basilica di Santa Eufemia, battistero e lapidarium
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Piazza Biagio Marin and Basilica della Corte
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A sophisticated walk: the Art Nouveau Villas
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Parco delle Rose
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Congress centre
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Barbana
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Costa Azzurra beach
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Promenade Nazario Sauro
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G.I.T. beach and acquatic park
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TMarine Thermal Baths
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Sacca beach and Grado Pineta
SPORTS, NATURE, FOOD&WINE ITINERARY
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Fishermen’s Cooperative
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Covered Market
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Grado and its Bike Paths
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The Lagoon and its Treasures: fish, plants and Santonego
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Valle Cavanata Nature Reserve
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Fossalon and White Asparagus
Guided tours and excursions
Excursions in the lagoon and to Barbana
8 March 2024
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. 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...
MIRKO BOAT - NCC
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), tel +39 345 4686207, info@mirkotaxiboat-grado.com, www.mirkotaxiboat-grado.com
- 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).
Excursions in the Grado lagoon for individuals or small groups; 2 taxis are available for a maximum of 18 passengers per boat. Departure from Porto Mandracchio, Riva San Vito, 5 (opposite Al Porto bar). Tel +39 339 2961866 (Mariel), taxiboatgrado@gmail.com, www.taxiboat-grado.com
- LAGOON AND PORTOBUSO/ANFORA ISLAND "Trattoria ai Ciodi", with stopover
- ISLANDS&CASONI non stop
- LAGOON AND BARBANA ISLAND with stopover, duration 2 hours
Guided tours and excursions
Oasi Gym Grado
8 March 2024
Keeping fit is important and helps feel good about yourself. Even on holiday, when time can be used as we like, we can find the ideal space where we can exercise and keep fit.
At the OASI GYM Fitness Centre are available:
- Complete weight room: Oasi Gym is distinguished by its state-of-the-art weight room, equipped with isotonic and free-loading machines, dumbbells, barbells, and a wide range of cardio machines, both motorised and inertial. This variety of equipment makes it possible to meet the needs of every member, from beginners to experienced athletes, allowing each muscle group to be worked on with maximum effectiveness.
- Professional Personal Trainers: The weight room is constantly supervised by experienced trainers, ready to guide you in choosing the most suitable workout and charting a personalised course to reach your goals. With customised sessions and programming, available by appointment, the trainers will 'put wings on your feet', ensuring significant and lasting progress.
- Dynamic Group Classes: Oasi Gym offers a wide range of group classes, designed to suit all fitness levels and preferences. From free-body classes to improve mobility and elasticity, to high or moderate intensity functional training, through sports and recreational dances, each course is designed to improve balance and physical harmony, in a fun and motivating atmosphere.
Oasi Gym is more than a gym! It is an environment where each member is valued and supported in his or her journey towards physical and mental well-being. It is the place where training becomes a unique experience, enriched by the professionalism of the TRAINERS and the quality of the equipment. Discover HERE the opening hours.
Guided tours and excursions
Courses and activities at the thermal pool
8 March 2024
The following activities are available at the thermal pool:
- Aquagym: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8.30 to 9.15 am;
- Antalgic gym: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 9.30 to 10.15 am;
- Swimming lessons for adults and children: find out the days, times and prices HERE.
ATTIVITÀ PER FAMIGLIE, EVENTI LETTERARI
"Born to read" readings
26 January 2024
Position: Biblioteca Civica F.Marin
The "Born to Read" readings with volunteer Readers are starting up again!
Every Friday afternoon until 29 March, from 4 p.m., we await all grandparents, parents, boys and girls for new stories!
More information
+39 0431 82630
biblioteca@comunegrado.it
ENOGASTRONOMIA
Tasting of Scotch Whiskies
24 November 2023
Position: Seti Cafè da Teo
From 8 p.m. onwards, by RESERVATION only.
Journey through the lands of Scotch whisky production; Tasting with gastronomic accompaniment to accompany the spirits being tasted.
For reservations and info contact +39 345 0333968.
Islands: The islands in this area are: Orkney, Mull, Skye, Lewis, Jura, Arran and Raasay. These are the islands that surround the perimeter of Scotland. Of these we have not mentioned perhaps the most famous: Isaly, which is a separate area and will be recounted later. Some schools of thought want to lump them together with the Highlands region, but their variety and diversity makes them one of the six zones. Obviously, due to their remoteness, which makes them practically all the way across the west of Scotland to the far north, the products they offer are extremely diverse and varied. What they have in common, however, is a not too invasive and very elegant peatiness, followed by iodine and heather. They are strong and important whiskies.
Highlands: This vast area produces whiskies with very different characteristics and flavours (they generally do not have a salty aftertaste), ranging from the softer and not overly peaty, with flavours from dry to fruity, to whiskies that are less soft and sometimes mellow and smoky.
Speyside: this area is rightly considered to be the heart of Scotch whisky production. In Speyside (meaning 'lush and fertile valley of the Spey River'), single malts have classic flavours of honey, vanilla and fresh fruit (apples, pears). They are sophisticated and elegant whiskies that evolve with age (especially when matured in sherry casks), giving the palate very pleasant flavours of dried fruit and sweet spices. Pure malts are produced here whose names, due to their popularity, are immediately recognisable even to non-whisky drinkers.
Speyside peated: an experiment for an elegant whisky but also one with a relevant personality; "with a peaty tang", i.e. a Speyside with a peaty touch: the peatiness is sustained and makes up a mix of approximately 5-year-old peated whisky and approximately 8-year-old unpeated whisky.
Islay: The island of Islay, the southernmost of the Hebrides, is one of the most renowned Scotch whisky production areas. Its fame comes from the abundant presence of peat through which the island's water springs and with which the malt used to make whisky is smoked, giving it the characteristic taste of smoke, iodine and seaweed so prized by connoisseurs.
ATTIVITÀ PER FAMIGLIE, ARTE E TEATRO
International Women's Day in Grado
8 March 2024
Position: Piazza Biagio Marin
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8 MARCH 2024 4.00 p.m. Piazza B. MARIN FLASH MOB with "DONNA MIMOSA" (artistic installation)
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15 MARCH 2024 5.00 p.m. Biblioteca Civica F. MARIN "meeting with the voice of DONNA MIMOSA" Woman and art
You are all invited
Free entrance.
Event organised by the association "La signora delle fiabe", in collaboration with the Municipality of Grado.
ARTE E TEATRO
LE MONDINE DI FOSSALON E DELLA BASSA FRIULANA
8 March 2024
Position: Auditorium Biagio Marin
08.45 p.m
"Le Mondine" ideally concludes the trilogy of shows produced by Grado Teatro on ancient female trades that began with "Le Anciughere" (2019) and continued with "Le Tabacchine" (2022). It was a remarkable project effort for a small company like Grado Teatro, but it testifies how peripheral cultural realities can have an extraordinary importance in keeping alive the cultural and popular memory of some, maybe marginal, but surely fascinating events of the past. In the early decades of the 20th century, particularly after the First World War, some areas, such as Fossalon and the Bassa Friulana, were given over to rice cultivation, not only with the intention of finding a new product to trade, but also to try to reclaim marshy swamps and thus transform them into fertile habitable areas.
For some time, therefore, the 'mondariso' also appeared in our area: seasonal labourers who were forced to perform, bent over for hours in the sun, with their bare legs in the water, hard and demanding work, often poorly paid and with the risk of being harassed by their bosses. Many were forced into this strenuous work because, after the war, there was no man left in the family who could support them.
Although brought back to its historical setting, in this performance the part entrusted to singers and musicians will be pre-eminent, since, despite the harshness of the daily commitment in the rice paddies, the lively and politically committed songs of the rice-workers still represent an exceptional musical heritage of extreme interest today.
From an idea by Tullio Svettini
Directed by Giorgio Amodeo
Production: Grado Teatro
The show is included in the 2023/2024 Season of the Biagio Marin Auditorium and offered free of charge to subscribers.
For the rest of the public, single ticket € 5.
ENOGASTRONOMIA
Ardbeg tasting at the Seti Café
8 March 2024
Position: Seti Cafè da Teo, Campo Porta Nuova 17, Grado
Ardbeg tasting, reservation required :
- Parmesan Dip with anchovy drippings, Bottarga, seaweed and anchovies from Cetara, paired with Ardbeg 5 years.
- Mock Carsolina with Cream of Prawn, crispy guanciale and dehydrated raspberries, paired with Ardbeg Uigeadail.
- Beef tartare with oyster sauce, seaweed gel, parsley sponge and seasoned stracciatella, paired with Ardbeg Corryvreckan.
For reservations and info contact +39 345 0333968.