Bibione spa, a great idea for the cold days

The autumn rain and the first cold days make remember the sunny months, where sea, sun and beach filled the days of tourists.

But besides its beauty and its luxuriant nature, Bibione offers a very special treasure, that very few seaside resorts have: hot and therapeutic water from some artesian wells in the nearby land.

The water, that flows at 52°, is at the bottom of the success of Bibione Thermae, the spa becomes a reference point for the entire North-east Italy. After years of research, discussions and demonstrations of touchable physical benefits brought by this water, in 1996 is born the spa in Bibione and from the beginning is distinguished by cutting edge technology, for the wide choice of treatments and therapies and for the agreement with the public national health system. The water is classified alkaline-bicarbonate-sodium and us particularly effective for circulatory an articular problems, diseases of the respiratory tract and of the ear-throat-and-nose. All treatments are made by a professional staff and the therapies are personalized according to the specific needs of each person.

The success of the Spa also lies in the various wellness treatments, for those people who want to take a break during the winter and spend a day in swimming pools, whirlpools, saunas and massages. Besides being an important point for thermal treatments, the Spa of Bibione offers also a range of services for well-being and harmony of the person with the Beauty Farm. Its large choice of massages, from ancient Ayurvedic and Thai massages to the simple relaxing massages, offers moments of relaxation and gives energy, harmony and balance. But the pride of Bibione Thermae is the swimming pool with hot thermal water, half inside and half outside the building, open almost all year round. The Spa are closed only a month, around February-March, for maintenance to offer always the best comfort to guests.

If in summer the swimming pool can be a good alternative to the beach, in winter it can give days of great relaxation and turns the gloomy days into a pleasant and warm experience. Also the swimming pool outside is open during the cold months, you can reach it from the inside and, surrounded by warmth of the water, you can relax listening the breaking of the waves.

Bibione Thermae offers also weekly, two-days and one-day wellness packages with different characteristics. These programmes are planned to offer to the guests the chance to enjoy a moment of total relaxation and wellness combined with a comfortable stay in the hotels of Bibione. Many hotels and agencies that rent apartments, have an agreement with the Spa, so they can offer an extra service at a special price and this choice is excellent also during the winter time. Especially with the wellness packages, hotels of Bibione that are open also in the winter months, can count on a number of guests who take advantage of cooler days to regenerate in Bibione Thermae.

New special services and equipment are the success of the beach of Bibione

Bibione withstands the crisis also this year. The beach few kilometres from Venice registered a good trend of tourists and it can be satisfied. The credit of this success is of all businessmen of Bibione, who have counted also this year on several events both new and consolidated, and on the improvement of services in the city, especially on the beach.

Besides the equipment, the firs aid areas, the games for children and the free animation service, this year the beach centred on environmental education, suggesting to children some games concerning the recycling of everyday objects and inserting on the beach bins for waste separation.
In a resort is very difficult to practice proper waste separation, this is why the city of Bibione decided to sensitize all guests beginning from the most frequented place: the beach. The initiative, started already last year, has found great success also this summer.

As always, tennis and beach tennis courts, football fields and bowls grounds have been besieged all the summer by the sport’s lovers, while for the pet’s lovers the Pluto’s Beach has been of fundamental importance. A lot of reservations and its high quality service have enabled it to obtain the prestigious award for best Italian beach for dogs. In addition dogs could also swim in the sea and for any problems an expert team was present to give useful information on the growth and education of the dog and on veterinarians.

A novelty of the summer in Bibione has been the renewal of a stretch of beach, which has become even more beautiful and functional. The straw umbrellas have replaced those in fabric, the spaces were even more larger and each beach umbrella had a deck chair and two sun beds with cushions and sun visors. Also walking paths has been changed with wooden paths and games for children and green spaces were the setting for this attractive area by the name “A new place in the sun”. For all tourists there was the customer service: expert hostesses and stewards ready to answer any request of the guests of Bibione with competence and kindness. From 8.30 a.m. to 8.00 p.m., these professionals have been very appreciated by the public, as well as dermatology consulting service on the beach. In a period of the year when the skin is exposed to the sun with the risk of sunburn and smearing, Bibione has made available a dermatologist every Tuesday for the months of July and August.

The beach of Bibione was ready to answer any need of tourist, offering also additional services, which are useful to give an even more pleasant and quiet beach holiday. Not to forget the events in Beach Arena and different points of the city to brighten up every day guests and the quality of accommodations: hotels and apartments in Bibione are always neat and the staff ready and helpful to meet the desires of guests.

Thanks to these good qualities and entrepreneurial spirit, the summer 2010 of Bibione ended also this year in the best way.

Music, steps and fun: this is the Bibione Beach Fitness

September, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th, Bibione will be assaulted by all fitness lovers, who will combine step, aerobics and dancing with a beach holiday.

It is the moment of Bibione Beach Fitness, the fitness convention with the best national and international presenters that already for several years takes place on the beach of Bibione. Usually organized between May and June, this years the convention takes place at the beginning of September, to give another energy lash before the end of the summer. The event is inside the Beach Volley Marathon as ever, another historic sporting event of the Venetian beach that for two years suggests a double marathon in mid-May and early September.

The fun will be double: fans of fitness and volleyball will live up the beach and the city of Bibione for an entire week end both with their sports performances and with the beautiful parties, an opportunity for interaction and recreation between all athletes. And indeed the Beach Fitness starts already Friday evening at 7 p.m. with the Spritz party on the beach! Until 10.30 p.m. music, fun and spritz on the beach of Bibione, in front of the Arena Beach, the stage of the fitness convention. For the occasion, the platform of the arena will have a cover, to ensure a little shadow to all participants. The convention starts with a nice party on the beach and it continues…with a beautiful party in discotheque!

The fun is the key of success of fitness. All lessons are in fact full of joy, with good music and a lot of positive energy.

Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. presenters will make dance and entertain the numerous fans of fitness with classes with very attractive names: fashion step, step from Paris, dance and show, Argentinian step, team boxe motion, Italian step, dance evolution tribal and much more. Many ways to be in good form with step and aerobics that join special musics and borrow some movements of typical dances, but also revolutionary methods of training that combines boxing with dance.

Saturday evening it’s again party time on the beach and in disco, while Sunday the convention ends at 2 p.m. allowing all participants to relax on the beach.

It must be said that even at the Village, where the fitness convention is held, lack comforts and opportunities to relax. Besides the changing room with hot showers, the café and restaurant, participants will find big swimming pool with slides and especially the Jacuzzi areas, and the beach service with beach umbrellas and deck chairs to have a rest after a strong lessons and to sunbathe. And if someone wants to go for a dip in a thermal pool, the Spa of Bibione offers reductions to all participants of the Beach Fitness.

Resorts, hotels and apartments in Bibione will be happy to welcome with their guests also all sportpersons, who will take part in the Beach Fitness and Beach Volley Marathon. For athletes and accompanying persons are available packages to special price and all accommodations are located near the Village, the place for both sports events.

Among sport, beach parties and disco nights there will be a minute’s rest in Bibione!

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.

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.