An expensive souvenir from Italy: A tourist collected sand in a bottle and was fined $ 1,200 - Walla! Tourism

2020-09-10T14:34:53.467Z

The unique sand off the coast of Sardinia is loved by many tourists, but one overly enthusiastic tourist paid for it with a particularly high fine. In other cases it can also end in imprisonment

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Expensive souvenir from Italy: A tourist collected sand in a bottle and was fined $ 1,200

The unique sand off the coast of Sardinia is loved by many tourists, but one overly enthusiastic tourist paid for it with a particularly high fine.

In other cases it can also end in imprisonment

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A French tourist who spent his vacation on the Italian island of Sardinia, asked to create for himself a souvenir from the trip, and filled a plastic bottle with sea sand he had collected on the pristine beach where he stayed.

He did not assume that he would have to pay a high fine for it.

But while a sea sand from the holiday can be a nice souvenir from the trip, in the case of some of the beaches of Sardinia, it is a protected nature value.

Fox News reported that with the arrest of the man, whose name was not released, local authorities in Sardinia declared that "such behaviors are not only harmful to the environment but also harmful to the preservation of the coastline as a sustainable tourist natural site".

The sand on the island has been considered a protected natural resource since 2017. A beach in Sardinia (Photo: Shutterstock)

The amount of the fine: according to the amount and type of sand

According to reports, when the tourist arrived at Cagliari Elmas airport in Sardinia, ahead of his return home, he found the same bottle in his suitcase, which contained about two kilograms of sea sand. The fine was $ 1,200. In some cases, the fine may be 3,550. dollars. This depends on both the weight of sand stolen and offshore location where it occurred,

also said that the sand on the beaches of Sardinia is considered a natural resource is protected since 2017, and the penalties for stealing sand beaches pleasant fined various amounts to the imprisonment of several years. just last year, A couple of tourists from France who were sentenced to six years in prison after trying to steal about 40 kg of sand were reported to have filled it with 14 empty water bottles.

Many tourists' fondness for sand in Sardinia has been known for years, due to its extremely thin texture and color - ranging from pink to bright white.

Cases such as these occur frequently, and every year large amounts of sea sand collected at beaches are caught.

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