Beach culture in Italy is very developed, I mean, stating something like this is, in a way, a very personal opinion. Because I actually don't really know how to imagine a developed beach culture. I guess what I recognize here is more by my own standards, I don't know what is up with lifeguards and boring regulations that might be considered as a measurement for a developed beach culture.
But you know what? I don't care about this at all, I care about the design of the experience and the way people support the overall vibe.
In Italy the overall experience and aesthetics are sky rocketing. All the beaches are full of color, in other cases I would judge the situation to be too crowded and just too much, but in Italy on the beach it's just a different story all at once.
The crowds of people lying on the beach come to be as a part of a natural exhibition of color, animalistic sense maybe? or perhaps the opposite, intellectual sense. In any case the result is this:
As one takes off his sandals and steps on the soft pebbly beach he is greeted with powerful exhibit of colors and dresses. The sea is light blue, the buildings are painted with warm pastels next to green palms and all sorts of greens and the people are not dressed in ways i'm used to. They are all matching the style. This is why I used the word animalistic, because it reminds me of the way animals cover themselves with color in an extravagant way but also very clean & aesthetic.
My favorite image to showcase what I mean is this one, three boys playing on a beach in Liguria, look at their swimming suits, I mean, I have never seen kids wearing swimming suits like this anywhere else, I think I don't have the guts to do so, the style of the parents or the culture that dictates the way they dress is so apparent isn't it? so awesome! colorful and celebratory of summer, and it's not just them of course, it is all over the place.
That's all - all pics by me (Onn Halpern) - © All Content 2017 Onn Halpern
