Calabrian beaches awarded with Legambiente Sails

Not only Blue Flags and Green Flags!

Calabria's beaches also boast the important recognition of the Sails of Legambiente in Calabria and the Italian Touring Club, a result that certifies the healthiness and comfort of the Calabrian coastline, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea.

What does the award consist of and what are the Sails of Legambiente and Touring Club beaches in Calabria? Let's find out together, with the updated ranking.

The Sails of Legambiente and Touring Club Italiano

Once again this year, by leafing through the guidebook The Most Beautiful Sea, published by the Italian Touring Club and Legambiente, it is possible to find out which are the Legambiente Sails in Calabria, i.e. the beaches awarded by these two important tourism and environmental organisations at national level.

The Most Beautiful Sea guide, edited by Legambiente and Touring Club, is one of the indispensable tools for getting to know all the seaside resorts awarded for their dream beaches, crystal-clear waters, services and opportunities for excursions, visits to places of art, wine and food tasting and events in the surrounding area. All this on one condition: environmentally sustainable land management for quality tourism.

For more than twenty years, the Legambiente Sails in Calabria have been certifying "the most beautiful sea", reviewing the resorts that best meet these criteria.

The 5 Sails correspond to a "5-star" seaside resort.

Let's now discover Calabria's starred beaches and the characteristics that consecrate them Sails by Legambiente and Touring Club in Calabria. 

Calabrian beaches awarded with Sails

With no less than 4 Sails from Legambiente in Calabria, the seaside resort of Roccella Ionica (RC) is confirmed at the top of the Legambiente-Touring Club classification.

We are located along the Ionian coast of Reggio Calabria, immersed in the beauty of the "Costa dei Gelsomini" Regional Marine Park. The beach of Roccella Ionica, already a Blue Flag, has won 4 Legambiente Sails for its overall tourist offer, which ranges from a clean and well-equipped sea to a visit to an old town centre perched around its medieval castle, traditional museums and a variety of artistic and cultural events that culminate in the summer with the eagerly awaited "Roccella Summer Festival".

It doesn't end here!

Another 27 locations have been awarded 3 Sails by Legambiente in Calabria.

If you want to visit them all on a Legambiente Sails summer itinerary, this is the complete list (many of these beaches are already Blue Flag and Green Flag):

• Soverato ("Baia di Soverato" Regional Marine Park)
• Scilla
• Amendolara
• Zambrone ("Costa degli Dei" Regional Marine Park)
• Isola Capo Rizzuto ("Capo Rizzuto" Regional Marine Park)
• Badolato
• Riace
• Monasterace
• Locri
• Cutro
• Marina di Gioiosa Ionica
• Brancaleone
• Palizzi
• Cirò Marina
• Bova Marina
• Bagnara Calabra
• Caulonia
• Diamante ("Riviera dei Cedri" Regional Marine Park)
• Trebisacce
• Melito Porto Salvo
• Belvedere Marittimo ("Riviera dei Cedri" Regional Marine Park)
• Palmi
• Sant'Andrea Apostolo dello Ionio
• Roseto Capo Spulico
• Rocca Imperiale
• Stalettì
• Crucoli

The locations awarded 2 Legambiente Sails in Calabria are those equally characteristic of:

• Pizzo ("Costa degli Dei" Regional Marine Park)
• Curinga
• Falerna
• Pietrapaola (Camigliano)
• Nocera Terinese
• Siderno
• Bonifati (Cittadella del Capo)
• Parghelia ("Costa degli Dei" Regional Marine Park)
• Villa San Giovanni (Cannitello)
• Corigliano-Rossano (Schiavonea)
• Montebello Ionico
• Ricadi ("Costa degli Dei" Regional Marine Park)
• Amantea ("Scogli di Isca" Regional Marine Park)
• Cropani
• Sellia Marina
• Simeri Crichi
• Longobardi

Among the Sail Beaches of Legambiente in Calabria there is also Gizzeria (1 Sail), where the Kitesurfing World Championship is held.