The Pink Beach on Budelli Island, one of the world’s most beautiful beaches, owes its name to the colour of its sand, rich with tiny fragments of coral, granite and shells. Its spectacular colour is derived from a pink microorganism that inhabits the posidonia meadows and lives inside the shells. When it does, the shells are washed ashore and ground by water and wind. Its clear waters lap against reddish foreshore and, behind, the Mediterranean vegetation. It’s one of the symbols of the Maddalena Archipelago National Park (SS), Near the Bocche di Bonifacio, to the northernmost tip of Sardinia.
Budelli, an oasis of wild nature, has been a private property since before the national park was created, covers 12km of coast and an uncontaminated territory of 25 hectares. From Monte Budello (87m high) the view is decidedly breath-taking: granitic rocks that hide little coves of fine sand and deep blue sea. The entire archipelago offers dreamlike places: Cala Coticcio at Caprera, forts Santo Stefano, Cala Corsara at Spargi, the fine golden sand beaches of the Maddalena, to mention a few. The area is a sanctuary for cetaceous, and is the home of dolphins, sperm whales and other whales. The Washington shallows are located between Budelli and Spargi, made up of granite blocks coloured by red soft corals.
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