Whoever speaks of nostalgia, of yellowish lights that incline to melancholy, forgets that the new autumn is not only an ally of the trees: it is also an ally of the beaches.
There is no more to notice the warmth of the Mediterranean waters to still open the beach season on the peninsular coasts, with permission from the covid.
There are many bathers who wait, looking at the calendar, for the arrival of the summer of San Miguel, around September 29, followed by the Pilar bridge (from October 9 to 12).
An autumn that meteorologists announce warmer and drier than usual and whose low influx will translate into greater health guarantees.
Here are 12 sandy areas where you can enjoy the so-called
veroño
along the Mediterranean
.
enlarge photo Cadiz Alcaidesa Golf course, with views of the homonymous sandy area and Gibraltar.
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1. The Alcaidesa
The Concepción / San Roque Line (Cádiz)
On this Cádiz coast, the Mediterranean merges with the Atlantic, providing a gracious ecosystem in which one never tires of stepping on sand.
Its dimensions compete with the glassy transparency of the water, as well as with the hypnotic persistence of the Rock of Gibraltar.
To get to La Alcaidesa (with more of a city than of urbanization) it is advisable to use the navigator: in Villa Real street it connects with the promenade and, later, the descent on foot.
Next to it is the golf course;
and is that everyone who dreams of
kicking
looking at the sea comes to these holes.
Neighbors come when the Levantichón blows, a calm Levante wind that pushes the warmer water without compromising its transparency.
The DBlanco restaurant, open all year round, serves spit fish so rich that it encourages you to return;
To which we must add the hiking option of doubling the Punta Mala overhang and landing in front of the Punta Carbonera lighthouse (San Roque): two kilometers of rugged therapeutic walk.
enlarge photo View of the Peñón del Cuervo, in Malaga.
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2. Raven Rock
Malaga capital
What times when this beach on the eastern edge of the Malaga capital, due to its polygon, was reserved for music festivals and little else.
From this rugged relief, declared a terrestrial maritime park, springs an incredibly expressive rocky tooth of air, a formation equipped with a geodesic vertex from which kids dive and divers observe underwater life.
Quitapellejos, home of the Dreambeach festival, is known by its traditional name, Palomares
The car park communicates with the Senda Litoral at an intermediate point between the sandy area and the Candado Beach Club (952 20 63 46), where you can eat on the terrace or take your food.
A paved walk with a wooden railing takes us to the Peñón del Cuervo and some palm trees that mitigate the aridities, and even a sundial.
Funny how the sand and gravel stretch out in a pointed way as if trying to touch the rock, while from the rear and elevated part comes the aroma of barbecues from the picnic area.
3. Las Cañas
Sorvilán (Granada)
The eastern Costa Tropical is perhaps the least known stretch of the Spanish Mediterranean coastline.
There, the beach of La Rijana (in Castell de Ferro) reigns with its own light, which suffers a high level of occupation.
As a wild, naturist and difficult-to-access alternative is the El Russo beach (Albuñol).
And, very comfortable, the undeveloped 750 meters of Las Cañas beach, separated from the Melicena houses by a promenade in front of which a kind of bay forms.
Indeed, toponymy refers to the proliferation of reed beds.
Although it is mostly gravel, there are areas of sand to spread the towel;
here, divers and fishermen are regular visitors.
At La Mamola, as the Onteniente restaurant (958 82 96 50) closes for holidays in October, it should be replaced by Casa Patricio (958 82 96 32).
To spend the night, the rural accommodation La Ventera, in the municipality of Gualchos-Castell de Ferro.
enlarge photo Quitapellejos beach (Almería).
getty images
4. Skin remover
Almanzora Caves (Almería)
Quitapellejos is inscribed with blood and fire in the youth memory by the Dreambeach electronic music festival, whose stages and camp have been built on this beach since 2013 (although this summer the pandemic forced the event to be canceled).
The older ones know it by its traditional name, Palomares, which was placed in the focus of media attention in 1966 as a result of the plane crash and subsequent fall of four nuclear bombs.
Quitapellejos, an extension of the naturist beaches of Vera, offers an open setting in which to project the view, seek the shade in the pine forest or walk to the mouth of the Almanzora river, stepping on dark sand (especially when the east blows) and gravel.
When entering the sea, the presence of steps is variable.
Going through here and not eating croquettes and paella is a sin that can be avoided at the Akua Palomares restaurant (621 21 08 54), very pleasant for the English public.
5. The Slab
El Portús (Cartagena)
Its convening power is due to the privileged climate that is enjoyed in the natural area of the Sierra de La Muela, Cabo Tiñoso and Roldán, located west of Cartagena.
What was once the beach of El Portús are now independent sectors due to marine regression (six meters in recent years).
One of them is that of the farmhouse;
next to it, La Losa or Rambla de El Portús, at the foot of Monte de la Casilla, and to which you descend taking the track that descends just before entering the naturist campsite.
The firm combines pebbles and coarse sand;
the water is deep.
And of an arid and stark nature are the cliffs that extend to Cape Tiñoso.
La Losa is ventilated by the air that is piped into the stream, an east that acts as if it were a north wind.
There are those who, equipped with diving goggles, fall on the entrance step to the sea to recreate in the posidonia and the species that it serves as a natural habitat.
At Cape Tiñoso, a wonder of the Murcian coast, the marine adventurers of Portuskayak approach.
enlarge photo El Portet beach, in Moraira (Alicante).
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6. The Portet
Teulada-Moraira (Alicante)
The coastline that joins the Cape of San Antonio and the rock of Ifach becomes steep and, finally, falls apart domesticated in coves of golden sand.
Among them, El Portet (the little port, in Spanish), supported by Cap d'Or, whose beacon tower can be crowned on foot.
We are in a sandy cove away from the main road, deeply seductive for its secluded layout and which owes its appeal to the blue-green clarity of its waters.
This old Berber ship anchorage recreates the illusion of a pool in which the people in charge easily control the plunge, both of the creatures and of the grandmother: you do not lose your footing up to 20 meters out to sea.
Its thin line of sand was filled in a couple of years ago to defend it from urban pressure.
The María Elena paella, with extra vegetables from the garden, continues to be a
must
at El Portet restaurant.
7. Charger
Alcossebre-Alcalà (Castellón)
Among the values of Alcossebre stands out above all its urbanism limited to three heights, which gives excellent views of the Mediterranean, and also towards the nearby Sierra de Irta, the coastal lung of the province of Castellón.
Carregador (charger, in Spanish) refers to the port area that Alcossebre had.
If we use the Roquer Martí car park, we will stand at the south end of the beach, which is quieter.
The storm Gloria gave a good account in January of many of the blown footbridges of this blue path;
on the contrary, how is this amplitude appreciated, as well as the presence of dunes, small in height but very high in ecological importance.
Afterwards we will be able to double the rocky point of the Carregador and reach the end of the La Romana beach and thus ascend to the viewpoint.
The Can Roig restaurant, with new management, is open at least until the Pilar festivities (from October 9 to 12).
8. Mareny de Sant Llorenç
Cullera (Valencia)
Finding stretches of the Levantine coast without apartment blocks already involves serious difficulties.
One of them is in the Albufera de Valencia natural park.
To enjoy the Mareny de Sant Llorenç you can enter through the Mareny Blau urbanization, in Sueca, and park in La Ralla del Terme, which separates the municipalities of Sueca and Cullera.
Thus we will access a sandy area outside the tourist bustle, wide and that in two kilometers leaves us in a magnificent stronghold of nudist tradition.
Golden sand, dune cords, almost infinite spaces and, best of all, very low influx.
The small cove Treumal, between Lloret de Mar and Blanes, resembles a Menorcan scenery
Here no restaurant keeps rice essences like Casa Rocher, with a weekend menu for 25 euros (drinks apart).
Closed from October 19 to 26.
9. Tamarit
Tarragona capital
This attractive beach borders the municipalities of Tarragona and Altafulla.
In addition to the colorful castle of Tamarit, the small delta of the Gaià river reaches significant status, which has indirectly prevented it from being built in the area.
Without annoying buildings, therefore, we will repair the dike with a beacon that emerges 150 meters from the shore (easily reachable), turning this piece of sea into a whole pool on the Costa Dorada.
The Altafulla-Tamarit train station parking is 300 meters from the eastern access to the beach and takes away from problems, as well as the majestic rice dishes of the Voramar Cal Vitali restaurant (977 65 06 30), just over a kilometer away.
Reservation essential.
10. Rifà
Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona)
Searching for sandbanks of arcadian quietness in semi-urban areas of the province of Tarragona is one of those tasks that transform the traveler into a detective.
Rifà, without going any further.
Leaving the N-340 in Torre del Sol and passing the train track, you have to go straight ahead to park in the large - and always open - parking lot at the Mistral Beach bar (currently closed).
Thus we made contact with Rifà, with an abundance of sand that also seduces by its brilliance.
At the Maykao Playa bar (open until mid-October; 619 09 81 32) we can reserve a table or buy food to go.
And also look at its Scots pine, three times a hundred years old.
Then it remains to walk 1.3 kilometers until you find the sandy area that the Playa y Fiesta campsite uses, operating throughout the month of October.
There is a natural park silence in these 800 meters of invigorating sand that clears the mind.
Justice is to warn of the entrance step to the sea and its stony bottom.
The natural area of Remolar- Philippines (Barcelona).
A. ZAMORANO Alamy
11. Row
Viladecans (Barcelona)
Barcelona airport was located in the alluvial plain that forms the delta of the Llobregat river, one of whose natural areas, the Remolar-Filipinas, preserves the beach in question.
Hence, we are immersed in the lands that once belonged to AENA, and in which the prohibition to build continues to apply.
From the C-31 we go towards Les Filipines, and we park at the Murtra beach.
After walking for about two kilometers, we stand between the sea and the Philippine marshes, crossing the mouth of a stream behind which rises a lookout tower, with a spiral staircase.
All this so close to the Barcelona conurbation and at the same time oblivious to the bustle.
In Remolar there is plenty of fine sand and safe distances as for a legion of bathers;
solitudes that invite you to fully sunbathe.
Les Marines, in Gavà, is a restaurant known for its proximity garden products.
enlarge photo Cala Treumal, in Girona.
Alamy
12. Cala Treumal
Lloret de Mar / Blanes (Girona)
“In social networks I said that I belonged to Menorca.
And it slipped ”.
The bather alludes to an almost unknown cove on the Costa Brava, green by the mountain of the Pinya de Rosa botanical garden, which makes a difference with its 600 varieties of prickly pears and six-meter-high columnar Pasacan cacti.
A rock makes Treumal independent from the nearby beach of Santa Cristina, a beach treasure of Lloret de Mar, although the beach bar reports that only a quarter of this cove is Blanense (to try their delicious paellas you have to hurry, as they close the season this Sunday, September 27).
From the car park (8 euros) you have to descend about 400 meters on foot;
If it is closed for the season, we can use the
Santa Cristina
car park
and go along the shore (except temporary).
Treumal, only 100 meters long, is an epiphany of the Girona coastline due to the width of the sand, its crystal clear waters, a few boats and the Punta des Canó, an island so friendly to photography.
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