Budelli’s Rosa beach, although not the largest in theLa Maddalena archipelago, has easily earned the designation of “heart of nature reserves and spectacular views” among all the islands, in Italy and even abroad. Like a beating heart, full of life and an example of unspoiled clearing, Budelli Island has contained otherworldly beauty for hundreds of years.
Not only among the most important islands of the archipelago, the Island of Budelli is known to the world as one of the most beautiful islands in the entire Mediterranean, and just abroad it is highly appreciated for its romantic Pink Beach. This precisely, in order to keep its natural heritage intact, it is constantly subjected to an ironclad regime of protection, basically by the body that oversees and protects the surrounding environment and its precious rarefied natural beauty, the La Maddalena Archipelago Natural Park.
Its very special name comes from the characteristic color of the pink sand on the beach at Roto Cove. The very rare event occurs when fragments of Miniacina miniacea, a particular foraminifera-a pink-colored microorganism-disperse into the seabed upon the death of the small organisms that have inhabited the shells formed by this micro-organism. It takes years and years before it actually turns into a material so thin that it goes to deposit on the beach giving it the beautiful pink color.
Curiosity about the Pink Beach of Budelli
On the boat excursion we will visit the beautiful places on the island, including the very Pink Beach of Budelli, which is located in Cala di Roto in the southeastern part of the island. The latter has an area of only one kilometer and six hundred square meters, whose highest peak is only 88 meters, while the coastal development is 12.3 km. The island is located south of Rizzoli and Santa Maria, two other very important islands of the archipelago, and is separated from them by the famous Chiecca di Morto, a strip of sea from which it is possible to sight the peaks of the main islands as well as the spectacular Bocche di Bonifacio.
It is precisely because these are such rarefied places that the island of Budelli, like all those belonging to the La Maddalena archipelago, are also controlled by the La Maddalena Archipelago National Park.. The Pink Beach back in 1998, then more than 20 years ago, necessitated the introduction of specific safeguard regulations to keep the environment rarefied, its precious waters clear and to prevent – as often happens – human beings from polluting or defacing it.
It is no coincidence that Budelli and its oasis have been involved in several notorious affairs, such as the one involving Michael Harte, a New Zealand tycoon who allegedly wanted to buy the island for 3 million euros. The purchase, did not actually go through, for the man, and its protection was granted entirely to the National Park, which is still responsible for keeping it in excellent condition today.
In 1964, moreover, the famous director Michelangelo Antonioni decided to shoot a scene from his ninth feature film-Deserto Rosso-that won him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Another beach, certainly less well known but equally more incredible, is located a few meters further from the Pink Beach: the Cavaliere Beach, which has nothing to envy from other areas of the Emerald Coast.
What’s to see at Budelli’s Pink Beach
Besides precisely for its beach, Budelli is known for being one of the last wild glades still intact today. The depths of its crystal-clear waters are home to extremely rare species of crustaceans, fish, and sea creatures that few people will be able to admire with their own eyes in their lifetime. Once you dive into the water you will find yourself in a virgin, rarefied, illibrate environment, a world far removed from what we are used to today.
However, all the praise, the adjectives used, do not do justice to the true beauty of these works of art of Mother Nature. The Pink Beach of Budelli, as well as the entire La Maddalena Archipelago encompasses beauties indescribable in words, which in front of such natural majesty, completely cancel their task.
