{"id":5028,"date":"2017-11-21T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etgroup.info\/blog\/presepe-sabbia-lignano-sabbiadoro\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T08:43:07","slug":"lignano-sabbiadoros-sand-nativity-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etgroup.info\/blog\/en\/lignano-sabbiadoros-sand-nativity-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Lignano Sabbiadoro’s Sand Nativity 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lignano Sabbiadoro’s own Sand Nativity<\/a> has come to its 14th installment, with last year gathering up to almost 70,000 visitors, so many that the organisers have had to extend the exhibition’s opening dates. Those who have had the pleasure to see this event grow larger and larger every year, will be pleasantly surprised by this season’s installment. We don’t want to give too much away, but know only that the theme is going to be very current and strongly felt, and is going to bring us once again some delightful memories.<\/div>\n
For all those who don’t want to miss an opportunity to see it, Lignano Sabbiadoro’s Sand Nativity is going to be open to the public from Dec. 8th, 2017 until Jan. 28th, 2018. The entry is free with a small donation.<\/h6>\n

\"Presepe<\/p>\n

We present to you this interview to the President of the association ‘Dome Aghe & Savalon D’Aur’<\/a>, Mario Montrone, promoter and organiser of Lignano Sabbiadoro’s Sand Nativity, crafted by the sculptors from Accademia della Sabbia in Rome.<\/a><\/h5>\n
Good morning, Mr President. How did the association get started?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The association ‘Dome Aghe & Savalon D’Aur’, which translates to “just water and golden sand”, was created by a passionate group of Lignano citizens who just wanted to bring some Christmas spirit to their small seaside town. The public library was one of the first institutions to get involved in the association’s activities aiming at organising events for the whole community during the cold Winter season. I must admit it wasn’t a huge success, which pushed us to look even further for more events and initiatives to promote. The real turning point was 14 years ago, with a phone call with the director of ‘Accademia della Sabbia’ in Rome, at 3 in the morning, who accepted to craft Lignano Sabbiadoro’s first Sand Nativity, a small work of art of 2 sqm in only two days. Today, after 14 years, this work of art measures 400 sqm, and the whole community, besides last year’s 70,000 visitors, participated actively to this event. There is even a project to create a Christmas square, which would be alive with tourists the whole year.<\/div>\n
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Why this idea of a Sand Nativity in Lignano Sabbiadoro, 14 years ago?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Because we are called ‘Sabbiadoro’ (‘golden sand’), and we decided to invest everything on our sand, utilising exclusively the one coming from our beautiful coastline, for a nativity scene which lives and breathes on our own beach. No treatments, only water and golden sand, that’s also the reason why our association has its name.<\/div>\n

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