Grado Holiday

Grado fell into the hands of the Austrians after the Treaty of Campoformio in 1797 and remained almost uninterruptedly so till 1918, when it was annexed to Italy.
Grado holiday
Today Grado holiday is a well-equipped seaside and health resort, where fishing thrives: it owes its fame to its superb beaches, its charming landscape, its places of worship and the dialectal poems by the great late Biagio Marin (1891-1985).

Thanks to the specific proprieties of sand the privileged location of the sandbathing establishments on a seashore Grado holiday that is the only one on the Adriatic Sea to face South completely, the island can boast one of the most renown psammo-therapeutic centres and amongst the few scientifically recognised.
Psammo-therapy or sandbathing is the most ancient treatment process of Grado's Thalasso- therapeutic Institute. The sand bath, which has been operative on the golden island since the beginning of the XX century, is a therapeutic procedure known even in the ancient times. Signs of this process are to be found amongst the works of Herodotus and Seneca.