Sunset on Maratea. Image by Valter Cirillo from Pixabay

Vranne at Maratea has been elected by Legambiente as the best beach in Italy, after a survey run amongst its supporters.

Maratea is a town and comune of Basilicata, in the province of Potenza. It is the only town of the region on the Tyrrhenian coast and because of its beautiful scenery and coastline it has been called “the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian”. Owing to the considerable number of its churches and chapels it has also been described as “the town with 44 churches”.

With its white sand, lying under a cliff on the coast between the port and the village of Maratea, the beach of the Vranne can only be reached by sea and is interrupted by a group of rocks divided almost in half.


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