The most beautiful beaches in Italy?Legambiente and the Italian Touring Club reward 21 locations:at the top of the ranking is Sardinia

The guide that rewards the best seaside and lakeside resorts in terms of beauty, hospitality and sustainability has been published.The best is Baunei, in the province of Nuoro

There are 21 seaside resorts that have obtained the coveted 5 Vele 2023, the highest recognition of Legambiente and the Italian Touring Club, to the seaside resorts that have been able to best combine territory and places of excellence, combining eco-sustainable development strategies.It was presented today in Rome The Most Beautiful Sea 2023, the guide that reviews region by region over 400 coastal municipalities, but also places on the shores of Italian lakes.Sardinia was the most awarded region with 7 locations.In detail, in Sardinia, Baunei, in the province of Nuoro, is in first place, a locality that has long adopted the strategy of access by "convenient number", i.e. setting a maximum limit of capacity of people that can allow the right balance between the environment and its users, counting both residents and tourists.In the ranking follows the Tuscany region with 4 locations, Puglia and Campania with 3 centers and Sicily with 2.Closing the ranking are Basilicata and Calabria, with the exploit of the city of Tropea which this year reaches the top of the ranking based on the regional division.

The 21 seaside resorts awarded with the 5 Vele 2023

Here are the 21 seaside resorts, divided region by region, that received the 5 Vele 2023:

The editors of the guide:«A stimulus to reflect on the riches of the Italian natural heritage»

Stefano Ciafani, president of the national Legambiente, declared:«Our Guide “The Most Beautiful Sea” as well as being a real photographic album of the beauties and territorial riches of our country that have applied good practices, can be compared to a lighthouse in a port, a real point of reference which political administrations, private stakeholders and citizens can and must turn to respectively apply new forms of management of these territories and new forms of tourism".Franco Iseppi, President of the Italian Touring Club, instead declared:«Every year, this is the twenty-third, the guide Il marepiù bello returns to bookstores with the punctuality of a classic to review, region by region, from North to South, the 7,500 kilometers of Italian coasts, with a section also dedicated to the lakes more beautiful.Not a ranking, but a geographical mapping that photographs the excellence of the Italian seas and lakes and a stimulus to reflect on the extraordinary richness of the Italian natural and environmental heritage, on the pleasure of knowing it and on the need to conserve it".