Overview
- The ordinance has been in force since June 6 and requires prior reservation, a €10 entry fee per person, and set visiting hours generally from 08:00 to 20:30.
- Most visitors aged 10 to 65 are barred from using umbrellas, sun sails, tents or pavillions while families with children under 10 and people 65 and over may use one umbrella each.
- The beach is now run by a municipal company and checked several times daily by city-police patrols to enforce the new rules through October 31.
- Disabled people and one companion are exempt from the fee and the shading ban, and officials say the measures aim to limit visitor impact after prosecutors treated the July 2025 fire as arson.
- The rules have drawn wide public criticism online over health and fairness, and they form part of a wider trend of stricter local controls to reduce pressure on popular Italian beaches.