Home
Attractions Accommodation
Buying Property
What To See
Beaches
Conero Coast
Sports
Active Holidays
Historic Towns
Events
Weddings
YOUR Marche
Shopping Luxury Shoes
Handicraft
Food and Wines Typical Foods
Regional Recipes
More Recipes
Pasta
Bread Recipes
Local Wines
Food Traditions
About Italy Getting There
Train Travel
Learn Italian
Photo Gallery
About Italy
Fun Facts
Italian Names
Travel Guides Best Books
World Travel
About This Site Contact Us
Italian Holidays Blog
Site Search
About Us
Free Newsletter

[?] Subscribe To the Italian Food Blog

XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines

 

Italy Beaches

Best Adriatic Riviera Beaches

Enjoying Italy beaches is one of the many attractions and things to do in Italy. Read about the best beaches in Italy and what to expect on the Adriatic riviera beaches





How to Find the Best Beaches in Italy

The best beaches in Italy are awarded a Blue Flag by the Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe (FEEE).This award is based on various criteria including environmental awareness and management, water quality, safety and services offered to the tourists. The Blue Flag award is basically is a seal of quality given for cleanliness, water quality, environmental management and safety.
Le Marche and Tuscany are the Italian regions with the most blue flag beaches. In the map below you can see the location of the Blue Flags on the Adriatic riviera of Le Marche. Click on the blue marks for pictures and more info about each location.


View Larger Map


What Services to Expect on Italian Beaches

Often the same beach is divided in different areas, according to the kind of services available.

Spiaggia Libera

It is a free beach, here you have to provide for your own umbrella and comforts. Often there are no services like showers and toilets. You may or may not be able to find stalls with refreshments.

Stabilimento Balneare

At a stabilmento balneare you are expected to pay for the comforts of an umbrella and sun bed or chair. There are showers, changing rooms, toilets, bars and often sport facilities and playgrounds. If you are staying at a hotel on the beach often the sun bed and umbrella is included in the hotel fee.

Spiaggia Privata

Sometimes luxury hotels have their own private beach to enjoy the seaside away from the crowd.

Best Time to Enjoy the Italy Beaches

The season is rather short, August is the month when most tourists gathers on the beaches in Italy. Ferragosto (the 15th of August) celebrates the climax of summer festivities, with fireworks, fairs, and events.

If you don’t appreciate the animation and the crowd take your Italian beach holidays in Italy in June, July or even better September, my favorite month. It offers quiet beaches, a pleasant weather and warm seas.

Dog Friendly Beaches

Dogs are not allowed on most Italian beaches during the summer but recently few beaches let dogs enjoy an Italian beach holiday with their humans. Here is a map of dog friendly beaches in Italy



Visualizzazione ingrandita della mappa


Best Adriatic Riviera Beaches of Le Marche

Here are some of our favorite beaches of the Marche region. Click on the links to read more about each one.

beach vacation italy Monte Conero Coast

The riviera beaches on the Conero coast offer spectacular views and clear waters, they are among the best beaches in Italy.



italy beaches Senigallia

This Italy beach is well known for its fine sand that earned it the name of “spiaggia di velluto” (velvet beach).

The historical center is large, lively and close to the seaside. Basically everything is at walking or biking distance.

This structure makes Senigallia a vibrant city, with exciting events throughout the year that integrated the touristic zone with the residential part, the fishing port and the commercial area.



San Benedetto del Tronto

San Benedetto is a beach resort famous in Italy for its endless palm lined seafront. Click on the title to read more this popular Italy beach destination.



beach vacation italy





Porto Recanati

Porto Recanati with its castle surrounded by clean and tidy streets is an enchanting and homely Italian beach resort.





Gabicce

Gabicce is close to the many attractions of Rimini and Riccione, offers a long, sandy beach and is close to the Parco Naturale San Bartolo with its hiking and biking trails.





Dreaming of Faraway Beaches? Check These Out!

Goa Holidays Advisor

Goa, the ultimate tourist destination with itsexquisite mix of sun, surf and beaches. Discoverthe best beaches, hotels, restaurants, villas &resorts in Goa, India.

To explore Malaysia beaches, click here

To discover Florida Keys and Key West beaches click here

Dreaming about Mexico beaches? Click here!



Go from Italy Beaches: Le Marche region to Le-Marche-Travel-Guide Homepage

footer for italy beaches page