Finding Barbie land: 4 of the pinkest places in Italy

Aug 08, 2023 422

This summer’s blockbuster movie Barbie has completely captured the attention of the world, and we’re all seeing pink. Inspired by TimeOut, Italics has compiled a list of perfectly pink places across the most fashionable country to find a piece of Barbie Land in the Bel Paese.

The whimsically blush pink beach of Budelli in the La Maddalena Archipelago owes its color to crushed fossils, crystals, coral, and mollusk shells. Since 1994 access to the beach has been strictly prohibited, and only permitted to be viewed from a distance, due to tourists stealing the sand from the beach—and losing the intensity of the pink-ness over time—when uncontrolled tourism picked up decades ago.

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SOURCE: https://italicsmag.com

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