The count · Italy
Italy has 1,363 beaches.
We counted.
That’s 1,363named, mapped beaches — real OpenStreetMap geometry, deduplicated, nothing under 1,500 m² of actual sand. The true number is higher (unnamed coves don’t count themselves), so treat this as the verifiable floor. Combined mapped sand: roughly 34.9 km².
The widest of them
Spiaggia di Levante — 251.4 m of sand, on average