Gallipoli beaches
It’s back to Italy again since our Italian user community has been very active recently. One of the pictures from Italy that was uploaded within the past few days was from the town of Gallipoli. Due to its location and climate, tourism has long been an important industry in Gallipoli; one of the attractions enjoyed by tourists have been the beaches, including the Spiaggia di Lido San Giovanni.
Have a look at people taking a rest on that beach some 69 years ago:
Spiaggia di Lido San Giovanni in 1940
It looks like not much has changed in the way people spend their time on the beach now, except that kayaks have been introduced since:
Spiaggia di Lido San Giovanni nowadays
Update (19 Mar 2009): after reading this post, user ledy2 who uploaded the first picture of Lido San Giovanni, added one more photo of the place, taken in 1955. In his own words (according to Google’s translation from Italian): “where there was wood, behold, cement …”
Lido di San Giovanni in 1955
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