Region: FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
Province code: UD
Zip code: 33054
Phone area code: 0431
Distance from UDINE 59 Km / 37 Miles
Elevation: 3 mt / 10 feet
Lignano Sabbiadoro
Getting there
By train: Latisana Station (20 km)
By ferry: from Grado, Trieste and Slovenia
By bus: from Latisana and Udine
This is a popular tourist seaside resort on the Adriatic coast of Friuli. It has good hotels, a large sandy beach, a pretty pine wood and a thermal spa. It is situated on the peninsula between the Marano lagoon and the mouth of the Tagliamento. The town is made up of Sabbiadoro, Pineta and Riviera. Riviera has a psammotherapy and marine treatment centre which uses the therapeutic properties of sea water and sand.
You can visit the fifteenth century Church of Santa Maria which has a fresco cycle of the same period, and the Punto Verde zoo, laid out on the left side of the Tagliamento and containing numerous species of exotic animals.
