Forty-five seaside resorts this year received the Five Sails award from Legambiente and the Italian Touring Club. Sardinia topped the awards with 6 districts receiving the award.
According to Legambiente and the Italian Touring Club, the waters are most beautiful in Sardinia which topped the rankings with 6 Cinque Vele (Five Sails) districts. Following were Tuscany and Puglia with 3, then Campania and Sicily with 2. Trentino-Alto Adige is award-winning for lake tourism, but the top of the lakes is Veneto.
The Cinque Vele locations, the organisers explained, represent the best administrative practices and demonstrate a new way of tourism, focusing on the environment and inclusiveness. In Puglia at the top of the ranking are the Tremiti islands, the area of the Ionian High Salento and that of the Adriatic High Salento.
“The new edition of our guide”, commented Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente, presenting the initiative in Capri, “tells of the synergy that has been established between good local administrations and that healthy part of the entrepreneurship of the seaside world; capable of managing beaches at their best, with less concrete and excellent environmental performance. The Cinque Vele resorts that we are awarding today represent the best administrative practices and demonstrate that a new way of doing tourism is possible.”
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Full list of Cinque Vele sites
Six districts were awarded in Sardinia this year. They were: the lands of the Baronia di Posada to the coastal Gallura, from the district of Baunei to the coast of Chia, from the Gulf of Oristano with the Sinis Peninsula and the island of Maldiventre to Planargia on the west coast.
In Tuscany the Cinque Vele fly this year on the municipalities of the Maremma, Costa d’Argento and Isola del Giglio districts and on the Island of Capraia. In Puglia at the top of the ranking are the Tremiti islands, the area of the Ionian High Salento and that of the Adriatic High Salento. Cinque Vele are also on Sicily with the islands of Pantelleria and Salina, in Campania with the districts of ancient Cilento and the Costa del Mito, in Liguria with the municipalities of the Cinque Terre.
A Five Sails flag also for Basilicata with the Costa di Maratea. A Cinque Vele holiday beckons also for lovers of lake tourism: the lakes of Molveno, Fiè and Monticolo in Trentino-Alto Adige , the Accesa lake in Tuscany, and the Avigliana Grande lake in Piedmont all have awards. In Veneto, Lake Mis came in first place and in Lombardy the municipalities on the western shore of Lake Garda.
