Hidden corners of Bibione and its surroundings by bike

This summer is even easier to know Bibione and its hinterland by bike thanks to the creation of 5 new cylce routes provided by the project “Vivilabici” (Live the bicycle). The routes are suggested both to the bike lovers and to the families and tourists that want to make an excursion and discover in quiet the most beautiful corners of the beach of Bibione.

The aim of the project is to promote and develop the region, offering the best welcome, offer and service to tourist through a trip in the wellness and silence far from the traffic. Many tourists search a quiet and relaxing holiday immersed in nature and for this reason in recent years have increased the demands of cycle lanes and paths. The beach holiday is connected to the natural holiday and Bibione meets this need thanks to its territory rich in particular flora and fauna. The five cycle routes lead cyclists to the discover of natural and landscape resources of the seaside resort and its hinterland, with the chance to stop and observe the beautiful sceneries and special places. These routes have been designed by according to different levels of difficulty, so each tourist on holiday in Bibione can go according to his rhythm on cycle paths. Along the different routes, cyclists can make a stop in a local restaurant and taste the traditional dishes of the Venetian cuisine. What better way to promote the region and its culinary goodness?

The use of the bicycle on holiday has become important already for some years in the seaside resorts, because it allows to let the car in the hotel or apartment and to reach all the areas of the city faster. With the impetus and the development of the environmental respect and the rediscovery of the nature, the bike is the eco-friendly means of transportation for excellence. For this reason several hotels began to offer free bike rental to their customer and today, not only the most part of the hotels in Bibione, but also many tourist agencies, offer this kind of service. So, even those who can not bring his bike, has the possibility to rent one for free for the entire duration of his holiday.

The five routes suggested by the project “Vivilabici” are Bibione Walk along the beach front cycle path to Valgrande; the Lighthouse and the Pine Forest through the green lunge of the city; i Casoni and the country of Terzo Bacino discovering the lagoon where the silence is broken only by animal noises and from waves; Vallevecchia and Brussa site of ecological interest for nature lovers, bird watching, riding and cycling; river Tagliamento, complex path for lovers of mountain bike.

Who wishes to make one of these excursions, can request the provided guide (there are five guides, one for each route), which shows the details of the tour accompanied by pictures of the most interesting places along the route and a description of the characteristics and the degree of difficulty, as well as specific advices, detailed information and technical data. Also foreign tourists can ask for the guides: they were made also in English and German.

Thanks to these efforts, the beach of Bibione offers a style of holiday in nature, without fail the comforts present in the city and especially in its hotels, apartments and holiday villages. For more information about the cycle routes, it is possible to ask the guide in the hotel or tourist agency or contact the Tourist Information Office of Bibione.

Bibione Summer Wine Festival: regional wines and products

For 27 years Bibione offers its guests the chance to taste very good glasses of DOC typical wines during the month of September with the Septemberfest and the city is already preparing for the 2010 edition. Awaiting this big party, rich in shows, events and concerts, guests of the seaside resort near Venice can take advantage of another initiative that wants to promote the excellence of red and white wines of Veneto: the Summer Wine Festival. Friday 25th and Saturday 26th of June is an important moment to enjoy the productions with quality marks DOC, DOCG and IGP and the typical products of the 19 Wine Routes, coordinated by the famous Wine Route Lison-Pramaggiore that reaches also Bibione.

Guests on holiday in Bibione will have the opportunity to taste the regional wine and gastronomical excellences during this week end through products offered in many stalls, which in turn provide to dive information about tours in the farms and wineries. In this way tourists in Bibione can make an excursion through the Wine Routes, discover the panoramas and the environment of these beautiful areas and buy very good wines and local products directly from farms.

Summer Wine Festival offers guests of Bibione the chance to know the products of the area and therefore to strengthen the love for this region. The festival is in fact an help to the promotion of tourism in Veneto through the promotion of excellent foods and wines that are presented in three different occasions. Summer Wine Festival in Bibione is the first stage, immediately after the festival will land in an historic city and in a country in the Dolomites of Veneto. The choice to bring this event on a tour of three stages is not accidental, because it goes to represent the main points of the regional tourist offer: sea, mountain and historic cities.

In addition to local products and wines, the sommeliers at the stands of Bibione will promote also the “Drinkaware”, that is with quality and moderation. This action is part of a larger project of Strade del Veneto (Veneto Roads), with events and projects taking place throughout the summer.

Guests of the beach in Bibione will taste wines and local products to the stands of Summer Wine Festival located along the main streets of the seaside resort, between Piazza Treviso and Piazza Copernico.
For more information, tourists can ask to hotels or agencies in Bibione.

Happy Summer Wine Festival to all!

A trip or a short holiday for Easter and Easter Monday on the beach of Bibione, can reserve a lot of pleasant surprises.

The beach of Veneto is ready to welcome the first tourists, who want to spend the Easter on the beach, surrounded by the healthy sea air and by the spring fragrance. Many holiday apartments and hotels of Bibione are opened for this occasion, with all services running, ready to offer the best welcome during this special period.

The entire city awakes and lives the Easter week as the first test for the summer season 2010. The beach is not yet equipped with beach umbrellas and sun-beds, but it can accommodate all guests who want to make a picnic, stroll, play or practice the favourite sport.

In addition to the beach, Bibione offers a natural environment of incredible beauty, cared, preserved and enhanced by the whole community to offer tourists the chance to live a day in a magical and ancient atmosphere.

That is offered by the Val Grande: an expanse of water and land that stretches for an area of 360 hectares with lakes, ponds and wood. An intact nature in an area chosen and created by people, in perfect balance between anthropic events and natural environment. Guests of Bibione can visit this nature reserve from the Easter week end to the end of September with an experienced guide through itineraries on foot, bicycle and horseback. All three itineraries allow guests to enjoy the natural environment with lakes with swans, ducks and birds of various species and with the wood rich in colours and extraordinary fragrances. Guests can also visit the remains of a Roman Villa, brought to light in the 90s, now under excavations. For the joy of visitors, in the sandy area it is possible to see wild horses, pheasants, deer and squirrels. The Val Grand offers an exclusive experience in an enchanting place, where children and adults can take home unforgettable memories of the holiday in Bibione.

A wonderful memory that can be combined with the fantastic feeling of relaxation that the Spa of Bibione. Open all year round, the spa of the seaside resort offers to its guests special wellness packages for a week, one or two days. The offers include massages and beauty treatments for the relaxation and well-being of him and her depending on different formulas: only for the relaxation of body and mind, for the moisture for the body, for the tone or for the beauty. In addition to the treatments, the spa of Bibione offers to the guests a lot of pools with Jacuzzi and waterfalls in indoor and outdoor heated pools, where also children can have fun safely. In the spa, guests can choose between the relaxation and the treatments of an experienced staff, and the fun in a welcoming atmosphere. The spa is a very good choice to restore itself, but also to spend in a pleasant way a day of bad weather.

Don’t forget then the opportunity to make excursions and trips to famous cities and towns near Bibione. The apartments and the hotels of Bibione are a good departure point to visit Venice, Padova, Trieste, Aquileia, Concordia Sagittaria and Portogruaro, fascinating cities, rich in history and culture.

Tourists who want to spend a Easter holiday in Bibione will not get bored, on the contrary they will find a lot of suggestions for the spare time, both with the sun and with the rain. In addition they will visit the city in a beautiful moment, the spring, appreciating its colours, fragrances and quiet.

A new experience, which will fall in love tourists with Bibione for its thousand faces.

Your holiday in Bibione between beach and sport

There are few months to the summer, but the sports events calendar is already known and very rich.
The beach of Bibione, the hotels, the apartments and the entire seaside resort will host from April to September several athletes and managers of all ages and nations engaged in tournaments and meetings of volleyball, beach volley, basketball and beach rugby.

To enable all athletes to play in the best way, it will be used fields on the beach, in the Arena Beach particularly, the gym and the outdoor fields. Also the accommodation facilities of the seaside resort will be ready to welcome thousands of athletes not only for the period of the tournament. As a matter of fact, a lot of athletes with their families or with their friends take advantage of this opportunity to spend a short holiday on the beach and very often, hotels and apartments of Bibione suggest them some special offers.

The sporting season begins in April with the Beach&Volley School, a study and sports holiday of 3, 4 or 5 days for boys and girls of middle and secondary schools. This kind of holiday is a chance to practice sport and in the same time to learn in the open air in a resort.

From April, 30th, to May, 2nd, several athletes from 6 to 16 years old will be involved in ParkVolley Junior Trophy, exclusively for sports clubs and for schools.

It continues with the most important event in Bibione: the Beach Volley Marathon, that also this year renews its double appointment. The first marathon will take place in May, the second in September, with the same rules of the last years and sure with a lot of athletes coming from Italy and from all Europe and with a large public.

The Five-a-side Football Meeting -Legea Cup is the protagonist of 3 week ends in May, June and July with a particular feature: the Night Trophy and the Day Trophy. This means matches both day and night, with the participation of more than 250 men’s and female’s teams.

From middle June to the beginning of July the Bibione Basket Camp will welcome basketball fans from 8 to 17 years old and it will learn all the secret of this sport together with a lot of fun.

July is surely the hottest month for the sport in Bibione. At the beginning of the month it will be the 14° Beach&Ball Trophy, a beach volley tournament for boys and girls from 9 to 19 years old, while in the week end of the 10th and 11th of July, the seaside resort will host 4 tournaments: the third match of five-a-side football meeting, the 4×4 Beach Volley Into the Night, the Beach Rugby Festival and the Basket3 Meeting.
For a week end Bibione will be the capital of the sport with 4 different sports, all rich in competitive spirit and also fun, with thousand of participants ready to engage fans and tourists both day and night. Tourist will have also the opportunity to have fun with the evening parties on the beach, organized by the sports clubs.

Thanks to the beauty of its natural environment, to the healthiness of the beach and of the sea and to the presence of recreational facilities and of resorts, hotels and apartments, Bibione was chosen also to host two sports summer camps from May to September: the Volleyball & Beach Volley Summer Camp and the Basketball Summer Camps, exclusively for sports clubs. Athletes and trainers have in this way the chance to join the beach holiday with their sport and to improve their knowledges in a healthy and amusing seaside resort.

With these sports events and with other several events, tourists will have the chance to spend extraordinary and enjoyable beach holidays in Bibione.

Spa in Bibione: swimming pools and garden

Bibione cuddles its tourists both in winter and during the summer. The seaside resort, besides offering its guests a beautiful golden beach and a blue sea during the summer months, offers also a modern spa open all the year round.

What better time, if not autumn and winter, to enjoy a relaxing sauna or a massage? The new thermal centre in Bibione offers a wide range of services, both for beauty and wellness, and for thermal treatments and rehabilitation through modern methods.

Since 1996 the Department for Health has recognized the therapeutic properties of the water of the spa in Bibione, giving the chance to make some treatments operating within the national health service. Thanks to this requisite, a lot of people go to the spa all year round to make special courses of treatments with a very good medical care. Especially, guests prefer autumn and spring to make medical treatments in the spa, because there is a mild temperature and the city is not yet crowded. For this reason, some hotels and apartments of Bibione are open also in the winter season and with special offers for their guests, like Stay & Spa.

During the winter months, the indoor swimming pool is the favourite destination for different persons, especially families, that wish to live the cold winter behind for a few hours. The thermal water has 32°-33° and the swimming pools continue also outside, giving the chance to go out on cold days while remaining immersed in hot water. Geysers, waterfalls,  hydromassage and swimming against the current allow to completely relax the body and to loosen up muscular stress. Who wants to achieve maximum well-being can enjoy also the warmth and the salutary effects of sauna and Turkish bath, remembering the beauty and warm days on the beach of Bibione.

In the Beauty Centre guests can cuddle itself with body massages and modern and traditional cosmetic treatments, with a professional team in a relaxing atmosphere.

Very good seaside resort during the summer months and reference point for thermal treatments and well-being in winter.

Bibione cuddles its guests all year round!

Wine and typical farm products in Bibione

On Wednesday, 9th September, on 3 p.m. in Piazzale Zenith in Bibione opens the 26th Septemberfest, the great festival of grape, wine and local farm products.

Also this year the festival is organised by ABIT, Bibione agencies association, which includes Agency Casa Mare, and it offers free to the guests of the apartments more than 100 hectolitres of white and red wine. The DOC and organic wine comes from the famous area Lison-Pramaggiore, a wine-producing region that has forged a deep friendship and collaboration with the beach of Bibione.

Septemberfest is not only a wine festival, it is also an opportunity to introduce the typical farm products from Veneto, like sardines, squids, polenta, cheeses and cakes. For this reason Septemberfest has expanded over the time, and for 4 years it offers a special space called “A sea of milk and cheese” with dairy products from Veneto. In these stands guests can taste cheese of every kind, helped in the selection and in the matching with the DOC wines of Lison-Pramaggiore from producers and hostesses.

In addition to the stands of wine and farm products, the Bibione agencies association has organised also the animation for adults and children with music and fun. Clowns and jugglers perform on the square involving the public and forchildren there is also a reserved playground.

Septemberfest ends Thursday evening with a special show: musical fireworks.

All this is of course free for the guests of the apartments in Bibione, and tourists, besides the beauty of the seaside resort, will remember with pleasure also the taste of the farm products from Veneto.

The Veneto’s regional finalists for the national beauty contest “Miss Italy 2009” will parade for the last time in Bibione, Piazzale Zenith, Friday August the 21st.

This last meeting is very important for the beautiful girls, because the winner of Miss Veneto sash will take part in the national finals in Salsomaggiore Terme, with the hope of winning the sceptre of the “Most Beautiful in Italy.”

It would be not a rare case that a girl from Veneto wins the last round of Miss Italy. In the last years, different Miss Veneto were crowned Italy’s beauty queen. The last was Silvia Battisti in 2007, crowned Miss Veneto on the beach of Bibione.
Maybe a good sign for the next winner from Veneto?

One last chance, where girls are expected to make the best of himself parading on the catwalk in Bibione. The crown of Miss Italy is not the only aim of the candidates. The hope of many of them is a career in the entertainment world, in the television, in the cinema, but also in theatre and in journalism.

Since the beginning of Miss Italy, many winners and finalists have worked in films, TV programmes and fashion, becoming famous. A name among all Sofia Loren.

The final of Miss Veneto, valid for participation in the final of Miss Italy in Salsomaggiore Terme, will take place in Piazzale Zenith in Bibione, from 21.30, Friday August the 21st.

Volleyball on the beach of Bibione

Bibione couldn’t miss the meeting with the women’s volley! From Friday 24th to Sunday 26th of July, the athletes of the First Division Women’s Volleyball League will meet together in the beautiful and wide beach of Bibione with Chiquita Cup Sand Volley 4×4.

After the winter indoor championship, the teams meet again on the sand of five Italian beaches to win three trophies: Shield, Italy Cup and Italian Supercup. In the Bibione Beach Arena the Shield will be the protagonist: the winner of the Master in the seaside resort will win the prestigious trophy.

Chiquita Cup takes in the different beaches a lot of fun and also the solidarity, that this year has an important role with “Jump! For life”, a marathon of jumps on trampolines against the poverty in the world.

As regards the entertainment, the women’s volleyball tournament offers a lot of fun for children and adults. At the Beach Volley School children can play volleyball twice daily with the best volleyball players as teachers. Adults can compete in amateur tournaments on the burning sand of Bibione, trying to emulate the athletes, or they can spend an intense fitness afternoon in the Village. A very peculiar fitness, the Walkexercise with mechanical and not electric treadmills. Who is tired of being under the beach umbrella, can try this new sport. The physical exercise is ensured!

The fun does not stop: music, a lot of stands rich in gadgets and good and fresh Chiquita milk shakes, but especially the evening show with the comic actors of Zelig, the famous TV programme, in the Bibione Beach Arena. Thanks to its central position, all tourists can easily reach the Arena with the public transportation from their hotels or apartaments in Bibione to enjoy both the funny evening and the volley matches during the week end.

Bibione, the ideal beach for extraordinary holidays.

Junior ParkVolley in Bibione

Bibione get ready for the long weekend of the 1st May with the Junior ParkVolley Trophy 2009.

The third volleyball championship for young people will take place in May, from the 1st to the 3rd, in the city tennis centre. For this occasion, the sport centre will provide a lot of volleyball fields on the grass, located few walk steps from the beach of Bibione and in the green pine wood. A perfect place to do sport.

All young volleyball players from 6 to 16 years old of schools and sports clubs can take part in this special event with their trainers and parents, that take advantage of the championship for a long beach holiday week end. Last year more than 2000 athletes took part in the volleyball trophy and with their families thronged hotels and apartments of Bibione that developed different special offers to favour the sports and beach holiday.

The Trophy joins the sport with the fun: in addition to the welcome party on Friday evening and to the closing party on Sunday, all athletes and trainers have the chance to enter in the spa with a special discount and so enjoy heated swimming pools with whirlpools, saunas and massages. During the breaks between a training and a match, children and parents can spend some time on the beach in Bibione or go shopping in the city centre and eat an ice cream.

The matches of the trophy will take place May, Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3rd, but the arrival in Bibione of the volleyball players is forecast for April, Thursday the 30th. In addition to the medals for the top three, is the prize also the Junior ParkVolley Trophy 2009. This trophy will be awarded to the team that will have the best placings in the last stages.

But all participants will get a very important prize: a special week end of sport, fun and holiday on the beach in Bibione.

Fireworks in Bibione

On December 31st Bibione greeted the arrival of the New Year with dinners, parties to the streets and in the discos and pubs and with a lot of toasts. In a cold night, in which dropped also some snow flakes, the seaside resort livened up as during the summer season.

The celebrations began already at 3.00 pm in the central Viale Aurora with the Children New Year’s Day, where clowns and cartoons amused the little guests until the arrival of Santa Claus with many gifts. After the rich dinners in the restaurants and in the Bibione hotels, a lot of people overflowed into the Piazza Copernico to drink a toast to the arrival of the 2009.

Thanks to the appeal of the New Year in Bibione, the beach hosted many tourists, who took advantage of this opportunity to enjoy a little holiday. Bibione offers resorts also in winter to spend a short holiday on the beach, thanks to the spa and to the proximity of the beautiful Venice. In this case tourists can spend a day visiting one of the most charming cities of the world, made more magic by the Christmas atmosphere. People who wants to enjoy relax and well-being, can address the spa and combine thermal treatments with the fun of the parties of the New Year’s Day in Bibione.

The first 2009 night gave everyone an unexpected snowfall, that covered of a thin white mantle the golden beach in few minutes, giving Bibione a magic and a very special aspect. The snow flakes didn’t stop tourists and inhabitants that overflowed into the central square for the colored fireworks.

Bibione, beach for your holiday also in winter.