Bottles of sand from the beaches of the D-Day invasion are going on sale. Georges Lancelin unveiled the $8.75 product Friday, in time to pitch it to thousands of visitors arriving for the 50th ...

Collecting sand may seem like a harmless activity, but it could land you in a big heap of legal trouble on many beaches ...

For that amount of sand, the tourist has reportedly been fined nearly $1,200. The sand from Sardinia’s beaches has been federally protected since 2017, Travel and Leisure reports.

Tourists bottle the sand up to then auction on online sites, BBC News reports. "Sandy beaches are one of the main attractions of Sardinia," a local environmental scientist told the BBC.

They were ill-gotten grains. A French tourist’s attempt to take the beach home with him backfired after he was fined $1,000 for smuggling Italian sand in his luggage. The unnamed man was busted ...

The visitors reportedly filled 14 bottles with sand and tried to drive onto a France-bound ferry in Porto Torres when they were discovered by Italy's Guardia di Finanza.

After almost 30 years in Italy, a bottle of sand from Uluru returns home An Italian tourist took the sand during her travels, but decades after taking the souvenir, she has sent it back to the red ...

I am spoilt for choices when it comes to buying souvenirs from here. There are jewellery, scarves, mosaics, ceramics and, of course, the usual fridge magnets and T shirts at every shop. But I am ...