SThere are 21 Italian marine tourist municipalities and 12 lakeside resorts awarded today in Rome with the Cinque Vele of Legambiente and Touring Club Italiano, on the occasion of the presentation of the guide “The most beautiful sea 2024”. Leading the top five for 2024 is Pollica (Salerno), with the hamlets of Acciaroli and Pioppi, in the Cilento of Campania. In second place is the municipality of Nardò, in the province of Lecce, in the Apulian district of the Alto Salento Ionico, followed by Baunei, in the province of Nuoro, on the eastern Sardinian coast. Fourth place for the Domus De Maria locality on the Chia coast, also in Sardinia, and fifth place for Castiglione della Pescaia, in the Tuscan Maremma area. New this year, also present in the Il Mare Più Bello guide, are the 33 common friends of sea turtles, marked with the appropriate symbol “the turtle”. These are those administrations which, through a specific memorandum of understanding, have undertaken to adopt a series of measures to make the beaches welcoming also for the turtles that lay their eggs.
The exclusion of Sicily, for the first year, from the Cinque Vele ranking is newsworthy. Pantelleria (Trapani) goes from 5 to 3 due to a series of questionable tourist interventions and excessive land consumption. Santa Marina Salina (Messina) goes from 5 to 4 Sails. As regards the lakes, the undisputed queens remain the autonomous provinces of Trentino and Alto Adige, in first and second place with the Five Veils assigned to the municipality of Molveno (Trento), on the lake of the same name, and to Appiano sulla Strada del Vino (Bolzano) , on Lake Monticolo. Third place for Massa Marittima (Grosseto), a Maremma town on Lake Accesa, in Tuscany.
At a regional level, Sardinia is by far the region with the most awarded municipalities with the Cinque Vele: alongside Baunei (Nu) and Domus de Maria (South Sardinia) there are also the municipalities of Cabras (Oristano), Santa Teresa di Gallura (Sassari), San Teodoro (Sassari) Posada (Nuoro), Bosa (Oristano). Following this is Tuscany which, in addition to Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto), includes the municipalities of Capraia Isola (Livorno), Isola del Giglio (Grosseto), Capalbio (Grosseto) and Marina di Grosseto (Grosseto). Then Campania, with a group of municipalities all in the province of Salerno: the first place is joined by the municipalities of San Giovanni a Piro, Castellabate and San Mauro Cilento.
Three Cinque Vele municipalities for Puglia with Nardò (Lecce), Vieste (Foggia) and Gallipoli (Lecce) and a flag also for Liguria, with the three municipalities of the Cinque Terre (Riomaggiore, Vernazza in Monterosso al Mare in the province of La Spezia) and Basilicata with Maratea (Potenza). In the ranking of lakes, after the podium of Molveno, Appiano sulla Strada del Vino and Massa Marittima, in fourth place we find Sospirolo (Belluno) on Lake Mis, in Veneto, and in fifth place Avigliana, on the lake of the same name in Piedmont. For the second consecutive year, the town of Scanno (Aquila) on the lake of the same name is confirmed as Cinque Vele, a new entry in 2023. At a regional level, Trentino-Alto Adige is confirmed as the region with the most places awarded with the sustainability banners, followed tied with Piedmont and Lombardy. (Handle)
