One seaside on the Italian island of Sardinia will solely be accessible to guests by reserving by an app this summer season.
Crescent-shaped Tuerredda seaside has already been capping customer numbers at 1,100 per day since 2020.
The brand new digital measure, anticipated to be in place by July, goals to ease the pressure on native sources and infrastructure.
Lots of Sardinia’s spectacular seashores are shielded from overtourism with comparable restrictions, with transgressors going through fines of as much as €3,500.
The island’s shoreline is famend for its pristine stretches of sand and is regularly voted as one of many high locations in Italy for a seaside vacation.
However it has additionally been struggling as a result of disrespectful customer behaviour and overcrowding.
Listed below are all of the locations the place the island has restricted entry or launched laws to safeguard its hottest seashores.
Spiaggia Rosa: €3,500 for stealing sand
The Spiaggia Rosa, situated on the outlying Budelli island, attracts hundreds of vacationers a day in summer season to admire its magnificent pink sand. However guests can solely see the picturesque sands from a distance on a ship.
Due to the seaside’s fame, it has been closed off to guests because the mid-Nineties after its coveted sand started to vanish. The native authorities took motion after vacationers had been discovered to be smuggling kilos value away as souvenirs.
Native authority laws now imply strolling on the seaside will land you a €500 fantastic, whereas anybody caught stealing the sand should pay as much as €3,500.
La Maddalena, Cala Coticcio and Cala Brigantina are capping customer numbers
Within the archipelago of La Maddalena, two seashores now have restricted entry. Final 12 months, solely 60 individuals a day may go to Cala Coticcio and Cala Brigantina over the summer season.
Travellers wanted to e book their slot on-line and pay €3 per individual to entry the seashores with a information.
The customer restrict and entry payment haven’t but been introduced this 12 months, however visits will possible should be booked by contacting a neighborhood information straight like final 12 months.
A number of different seashores across the island now solely permit entry to a restricted variety of guests.
Within the north, Cala Brandinchi and Lu Impostu will restrict numbers to 1,447 and 3,352 respectively between 1 June and 30 September. Guests additionally have to e book through the San Teodoro app or on the devoted web site.
At Cala Mariolu, 700 individuals are allowed per day between June and early November.
In Villasimius within the southeast, beachgoers heading to Punta Molentis, Riu Trottu and Portu Sa Ruxi are required to pay to entry the automotive park. Every automobile prices €10 with a further €1 for every passenger. Cyclists and pedestrians pay €3.
Employees are stationed at automotive parks and seaside entry factors to examine tickets.
Seashore towels banned on Pelosa seaside
On the west coast, Stintino’s famed Pelosa seaside is now solely open to a restricted variety of guests per day. A most of 1,500 individuals are allowed to entry the seaside every day. Final 12 months, customer numbers reached as many as 4,000 on some days.
These trying to sunbathe on Pelosa seaside have to e book a ticket costing €3.50. Laws additionally state that guests can solely use seaside towels in the event that they place mats beneath them, which entice much less sand.
Ogliastra: Closing dates for beachgoers
In Ogliastra on the east coast, 300 individuals a day are permitted on Cala Birìala and beachgoers who arrive by boat can solely keep for 90 minutes.
Equally, guests to Cala dei Gabbiani are additionally capped at 300. Final 12 months, guests needed to go away after two hours.
How is Italy clamping down on overtourism?
Sardinia joins a number of different well-liked vacationer locations which have launched restrictions on account of overcrowding.
Venice now has a reserving system and payment to go to town. Within the Italian Riviera city of Portofino, vacationers lingering too lengthy and blocking streets face fines of €270.