The 6 Best Beaches in Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona has 4.5 kilometres of coastline, a gorgeous strip of land offering up the Mediterannean at every point, with...
Barceloneta Beach
Barceloneta Beach, Spain
Barceloneta is the city’s most famous (and traditional) beach. It’s named after the seafaring neighbourhood par excellence, built during the 18th...
Llevant beach
Passeig Marítim del Bogatell, 145, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
This beach was born following the removal of the cement blocks of the Prim breakwater, part of the transformation of the area now known as Diagonal...
San Sebastian Beach
San Sebastian Beach, Barcelona, Spain
The beachfront of Ciutat Vella, next to the port, also includes what was historically known as Sant Miquel Beach, which corresponds to a large section...
Platja de la Nova Mar Bella
Platja de la Nova Mar Bella, Barcelona, Spain
The name Mar Bella is a reference to the area that La Barceloneta is built on. A ‘marbella’, written as one word, is the name given to land reclaimed...
Nova Icaria beach
Nova Icaria beach, Spain
The 19th-century city planner Ildefons Cerdà had his own utopian dream of a city. He’d planned on calling it Icària like the ideal island imagined by...
Zona de Banys Fòrum
Zona de Banys Fòrum, Barcelona, Spain
You can go and bathe at the Fòrum, but this isn’t a beach in the traditional sense. In fact, it’s a sandless space reclaimed from the sea by means of...