Umbrellas and Lounge Chairs Cover Italy’s Beaches. To Some, They’re a Plague.

Italian beaches are public land, but businesses charge to use them—and fend off political pressure for change

About half of Italy’s coastline with sandy beaches is privately managed. Photo: Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images

When Roberta Milani goes to the beach with her husband and three children, she doesn’t want to see hundreds of matching umbrellas and reclining chairs in neat rows hogging the sand and blocking her view of the sea.

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