Beaches taken by storm: Scoglio di Peppino and Cala Pira with limited numbers in 2024
The choices of the mayors of Muravera and Castiadas. In Tortolì from next year smoking ban on the entire coast
In the summer of skyrocketing prices, stop-and-go transport and wars over the number of arrivals, intolerance towards mass tourism explodes in Sardinia and in the rest of Italy, a real assault that the mayors are somehow seeking to regulate.
On the island, the number of coastal municipalities that impose tickets, paid parking and restricted entrances to defend the besieged beaches is growing year after year. And in certain periods, Carnival and Holy Week, or for some events, Autumn in Barbagia, the problem also affects the mayors of the municipalities of the inland areas.
Unsustainable numbers, remember what happened in November when the mayor of Mamoiada launched an appeal on social media during the Autumn festival in Barbagia: "Thanks for the affection, but we are at the limit of capacity".
Beaches
The Scoglio di Peppino, the most famous of Costa Rei, is "suffocated" by umbrellas. Literally besieged by bathers, squeezed into the few meters of free beach on one side and the 800 guests of the Santa Giusta resort on the other.
To protect what is a real pearl from possible environmental damage, the mayor of Muravera Salvatore Più has decided to intervene in three steps: tight controls from the next few days, translation of the Santa Giusta concession from next summer and, finally, number closed.
«The restricted number is the only solution, the Scoglio di Peppino must be protected», explains the mayor, who for this month of August has decided to hire and send 4 policemen to Costa Rei: «If we establish that in front of the there can be a maximum of 200 people, once the threshold is reached, they will not have to make anyone else stop ».
In Cala Pira, Castiadas, the mayor Eugenio Murgioni is determined to put the limit of 700 presences: "We will introduce it in 2024 to preserve this jewel".
Moving further north, if in Cala Luna the limited number has been put in the attic after the controversies, at least for this year, in San Teodoro from June 15th the limited number has returned to Cala Brandinchi and Lu Impostu. The Bidderosa oasis in Orosei has had limited numbers for about twenty years, 120 cars and 700 people on the beach. The problem does not arise in Siniscola, where "there is room for everyone" with 28 km of very wide beaches.
The mayors of Tortolì and Bari Sardo, the centers of Ogliastra with the most presences, assure: "The limited number on the beach is not needed", because the km of coast are many here too. in Tortolì, on the other hand, from next summer smoking will be prohibited on all the beaches: "Butts are no longer tolerable", explains the mayor Marcello Ladu.
