VIAREGGIO

We never thought it would happen, with the strong influence of La Papa over Italy’s attitude to gayness... but, at last, we have a fully-fledged gay beach summer holiday resort, making VIAREGGIO the first beachside city in Italy to develop a full-on gay holiday place. Gay VIAREGGIO - or, more specifically, its beach neighbourhood of gay Torre del Lago has a nicely developing gay scene, thank you! That it has a gay beach, was kept a pretty closely-guarded secret by the locals for the past twenty years or so,. Until now, that is... because over the past five years, there has been a slowly-but-surely build-up of that gay tolerance and amenities that has evolved into the gay holiday place in Italy. The process has been helped along by the fact that Tuscany is a much more open, tolerant and switched-on region of Italy than anywhere else in the country... especially compared with down in the ‘deep south.’ And, it has, traditionally, had a gay beach... which helps a lot! Of course, the major Italian cities have been quite a pull for us for ages through their crowd-pulling art and architecture as well as the gastronomy and beautiful people. But compared with Spain, and even Greece, Italy has been a real latecomer as a ‘hot’ summer gay holiday place, until now....so for a new experience, why not now explore gay Italy by choosing gay VIAREGGIO - gay Torre del Lago - our new gay holiday place?