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Seaside, Italian style

Friday, August 07, 2009

Each year the Italian Government releases a report of the state of the Italian seaside which classifies areas of the sea according to the quality of the water and their suitability for swimming or not. It also includes some very interesting statistics about the size of the Italian seaside...

Italy is actually the European country with the most beaches, not a suprise considering its boot-like shape and the big islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy actually has 33.8per cent of the European beaches with 4917, while the second one is Greece with 2088, followed by France (1968) and Spain with (1899).

Italy actually adopts more stringent control parameters for defining sea water suitable to swim in so 91.43per cent of the Italian coast is within the European standards against the average of 88.6per cent across Europe.

Basilicata, Molise and Emilia have 100per cent of their beaches in excellent conditions, while Sardinia is at 99.9per cent, Toscany 99.8per cent, Marche 98.2per cent, Sicily 98per cent, Lazio at 92per cent. Abruzzo is 97.8per cent while Campania fares the worst with 80.8per cent.

Source: www.italymag.co.uk

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