Evgeny So at Silversand kite beach in Hanko, Finland, 5th of July 2017
Italy is not known for waves but there’s always exceptions.
When a significant Mediterranean swell arised on the charts, surfers Marlon Lipke and Gony Zubizarreta embarked on a plane to Sardinia, Italy, to join Roberto D’Amico for a 3-day surf mission.
How to lock down waves in the Land of Love
The shock feels like it should have worn off by now, but Italy has surf. Fun surf. Sometimes great surf. This Mediterranean country’s coastline is exposed to swells from multiple directions and, on the right days, can go off. Numerous surf publications and films have covered this, especially in the past 10 to 15 years, and now they even have one of their countrymen battling it out on the ‘CT in the form of Leo Fioravanti. For an insider’s guide to surfing in the Land of Love, we turned to professional Italian surfer, Roberto D’Amico.
THE WAVES:
One of the reasons why most tourists, and even Italians, would never guess that their coastline can produce surf is because the prime seasonal window isn’t … More