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Travelers looking for pristine beaches in Italy would be wise to head south this year. Italian environmental group Legambiente's beach guide, which uses 128 parameters to comb 243 coastal spots in a yearly quality test, again gave Southern Italy or the Mezzogiorno top marks. Not all of Italy's extensive coastline -- 1,850 kilometers or circa 1,150 miles -- makes the grade, but figures are improving.
The list can be used to decide where to go, but also where to expect crowds -- in a recent poll 41% of Italians said they plan to vacation by sunning on Bel Paese beaches in 2004. There has been some jostling over the previous years' top ten, but Southern Italian beaches continue to dominate better-known locales in Liguria and Tuscany. Famous beach spots Rimini and Riccione on the Adriatic coast were towards the bottom of these ratings, scoring two and three out of a possible five respectively.
These 10 spots received a perfect five out of five "sails" rating: Otranto (Puglia), Buoso (Sardinia), Cinque Terre (Liguria), Orosei (Sardinia) , Pollica Acciaroli e Pioppi (Campania), Tropea (Calabria), Castiglione della Pescaia (Tuscany), Arbus (Sardinia) and Tremiti Islands (Puglia).
Ratings also take into account natural beauty, contamination but also tourist structures, noise levels and environment-friendly waste systems.
