11 Pink Beach

In front of us you can see the famous Pink Beach, here on the island of Budelli. It is famous for its unmistakable colour, due to the presence of a microorganism, Miniacina Miniacea, which lives in seagrass meadows and, mixing with fragments of shells, mollusks, and granite, gives the sand its characteristic pink hue. Since 1994, the Pink Beach has been a fully protected area, Zone A of the Park: it is therefore forbidden to walk on the beach, swim there or moor. In recent years, the National Park of the La Maddalena Archipelago has introduced guided tours on special wooden paths, to allow visitors to admire the archipelago up close in an environmentally friendly way. This form of protection was required because, in the past, many visitors took the sand away, endangering its characteristic colour, which was slowly disappearing.