Porto Cesareo Beach — Attraction in Porto Cesareo

Porto Casareo is a cute little beach town, with a very sweet local population.

Unfortunately, it seems to attract the worst breed of tourists. Trashy, rude, entitled, uneducated, uncivilised. Spitting and littering everywhere, beating up their little children in public and seemingly not being able to live in a society with an absolut basic degree of decency. I can’t decide whether the whole thing feels like an open air prison colony on family visitation day, or a social experiment, where scientists want to find out what happens if you dump a bunch of animals into a city and see what happens. I feel sorry for the people living here, as their summers seem to turn into never ending nightmares. If you like the guys from “The Jersey Shore” and want to mingle with the even worse offspring of their ancestors, this place might be your jam. As an European citizen, I’ve never felt so deeply ashamed and embarrassed and I have lost all hope for this part...

Porto Cesareo è stato il nostro punto fermo per il giro in macchina del Salento. Carina, molto familiare, mare pulito... a solo 2 km di distanza potete trovare spiagge enormi con acqua azzurrissima e trasparentissima, a 15 km invece la famosa Punto Prosciutto, la scelta non vi manca per rimanere nei paraggi. Piacevole la passeggiata lungomare delineata da tipiche palme, la sera più graziosa per il calore giallo dato dalle luce dei lampioni e per la presenza di bancarelle e l’apertura delle giostre per i bambini... notevole la paninoteca Poldo in camion da street food parcheggiata fronte lungomare. Il centro riserva una via di negozietti, locali con tavoli all’aperto dove poter bere e mangiare, gelaterie ...tutto per rifarvi vista palato! Ps: sempre dal lungomare abbiamo fatto dieci minuti di taxi-barca per raggiungere l’isoletta visibile ad occhio nudo....stato selvaggio, non c’è nulla portatevi tanta acqua, noi avevamo anche il cane, per fortuna un po’ d’ombra!

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Porto Cesareo was our staple for the Salento car tour. Nice, very familiar, clean sea ... just 2 km away you can find huge beaches with very blue and transparent water, 15 km instead the famous Punto Prosciutto, you don't miss the choice to stay nearby. The waterfront promenade outlined by typical palm trees is pleasant, the most graceful evening for the yellow warmth given by the light of the street lamps and for the presence of stalls and the opening of the rides for children ... remarkable the Poldo sandwich shop in parked street food truck facing the seafront. The center has a street of small shops, bars with outdoor tables where you can drink and eat, ice cream parlors ... all to make you feel good! Ps: always from the seafront we took ten minutes by taxi-boat to reach the islet visible to the naked eye .... wild, there is nothing bring lots of water, we also had the dog, luckily a...

Oh, what a gem this beach is! A filthy, overcrowded mess right by the city and between the port, with litter strewn like confetti: plastic, beer cans, cigarette butts, and food remains litter the shore, no hygiene at all! Also it’s so packed, you’re dodging boats and bodies, truly a trashy people magnet! These troglodytes yell, smoke, and ignore any rules of public decency. This city lives off summer tourists but can’t clean up, renovate and keepin order—lame! Definitely skip this gross, crowded beach unless...