In Italy all coast and so also beaches are public property
But … Historically many coastal towns kind of rented the beaches to families who built empires on overcharging customers, blocking sea access and also issuing bogus rules like to external food.
Now there is an European directive to which Italy should adhere that imposes those beach concessions to be actually competition and not assigned by divine rule of birth.
Of course, the families whose main income is that, and who used to live 12 months from the income of June/July/august, do not agree.
While still illegal to block import of food and public access to the sea, in many places it happens.
Also, in many places there are publicly accessible beaches with infrastructure (showed, toilet, bar…) bit those are not the touristy spots
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bringing food from outside doesn’t cause people to not want to order your food.
People bring outside food because they never wanted to buy yours in the first place.