The range of ‘things to do’ on offer is ever wider; sport and fitness activities are written large, tennis and sailing, beach games such as volleyball and frisbee, surfing or diving. By the rocky coastline from Trieste down to Monte Conero, you can find wonderful diving locations. Many public swimming pools in Lignano, Jessolo, Rimini and Riccione that offer the use of modern fitness apparatus. After your day in the sunshine, life on the beaches goes on; in the beach bars you can meet for a Happy Hour aperitif, with “spaghetti alle vongole” to live music.

Fully in trend are nature trips, either by bicycle, on foot, on horseback or in a boat to the mystic worlds of Podeltas and the lagoons of Venice, of Grado, of Murano: the amphibian world, half land, half water of islands, of brook ponds, salt-grass meadows, spits of land, of flat meadows and dikes.

Now and again, one skips a day on the beach to search for story snippets and historical information about the Adriatic. This includes not only the fantastic sea-bound Republic of Venice but also the port of Trieste with its historical riches from Roman times and its Hapsburg flair for classical palaces and cosy coffee houses. It also means the traces of the medieval Lombards in Cividale del Friuli, the wonderful old churches of the early Christians with their stonemasonry and mosaic splendour in Grado, Aquileia, Pomposa and especially Ravenna.

Everywhere in the hilly interior of the Apennines one comes across romantic towns, villages and hamlets with their medieval centres with lovely pubs, ideal for a lively outing, while at the coast it is very hot and humid. In the Renaissance, some of the Princes endowed the towns and the entire area with unique town and castle architecture and with rich, artistic collections. Ports, such as Chioggia and San Benedetto del Tronto, are also worth visiting with their exuberant, live fish markets.

For your holiday on the Adriatic we offer services at the terminal in Trieste.