of Sirolo

Description
This is a beautiful beach shaped as a half moon. It is located between a cave and a high drop; it is covered by a luxuriant green maquis and it is protected by a half circular barrier of rocks. The balsam odour of pine trees, the quiet shore equipped with two lidos and clean waters make this bay a unique place.

Features: pebbles;

How to get there: by bus or by car; a street go down for 1 km from the Sirolo centre to the beach.

Description:
The wide and long beach is perfect to relax or have a walk. You can admire the sea in front of you and the green maquis behind.

Features: pebbles.

How to get there: on foot, thanks to a path starting in the Sirolo “Parco della Repubblica”, or by bus from the Sirolo townhall. Getting there by car is possible only in low season.

Description
This is a long, wild and free beach. It is perfect for people who want to come into full contact with nature. It is made up of big white pebbles on which big dark stones rise. No facilities are present.

Features: stones and dark gravel.

How to get there: on foot thanks to a path starting from the Sirolo “Parco della Repubblica”; from 15th June to 15th September also by bus (departures every 30 minutes; the ticket costs 1,00€). Once arrived at “San Michele”, you have to continue on foot.

Description
Its name derives from the presence of two twin rocks arising from the sea. You can get here only by sea.
The white beach, the limpid water, the looming mount, the wild and untouched environment make this place one of the most desirable locations. No facilities are present.

Features: gravel, pebbles and rocks.

How to get there: by sea thanks to a boat transfer from the port of Numana or from Marcelli. Info: Traghettatori Riviera del Conero – Tel. +39 071 9331795 – www.traghettatoridelconero.it

Description
Another beach is characterized by rocks near Due Sorelle. In the past this was the location of the “cave of slaves”, collapsed for a landslide at the beginning of the century.
Many people say how beautiful this cave was when you could reach it by sea. Maybe the name of the cave derives from the use the Saracenic admiral Sabba had of it. It’s said that he used the cave as a sorting place for the slaves he kidnapped during his incursions along the Adriatic coasts, waiting for someone who released or bought them.
It was Sabba who destroyed Ancona and all its Roman and Greek remains in 839 A.D., enslaving many people too. He even stole metal statues from the Trajan arch. A legend says that incursions ended only when he sank.

How to get there: by sea with a private boat.

Description
It is so called for a rock shaped as a sail in front of the final part of the beach.
This is the last arch of coast where you can stay at the basis of the northern side of the Conero.
Behind it you can admire the wonderful Romanic abbey “Santa Maria di Portonovo”, which was built by Benedictines from 1034.

Features: pebbles and gravel

How to get there: by car, driving along “Strada Provinciale del Conero”, towards Portonovo. You have to take the street going down the side of the mount. As there are few car parks near the beach, traffic could be blocked. In that case you can take a bus from the parking on the top.