What it’s like to visit Europe’s last gender-segregated beach

Our local expert visits Trieste’s Pedocin beach, where male and female bathers have been separated in the surf for more than a century

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Pedocin is beloved by locals, says our writer Credit: Alamy

In a time of gender-neutral toilets, outfits and facial hair, it might seem anachronistic that a sex-segregated beach functions…

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