typicallyspanish.com

Spain News : Costa Blanca
+ Larger Font | + Smaller Font
527 blue flags for Spanish beaches and marinas this year
By h.b. - May 29, 2008 - 7:59 AM
ALSO SEE : • Almuñécar cracks down on abandonded sunshades - Jul 29, 2008 - 7:39 AM
• Body washed up on the beach in Guardamar del Segura - Jul 9, 2008 - 8:09 AM

Archive Photo 20 minutos
enlarge photo

The number is down on last year by 49.
Alicante has the best of the blue flag beaches in Spain this year according to 20 minutos newspaper. A total of 527 blue flags have been awarded for the country’s beaches and marinas for this summer, some 49 fewer than last year. 455 are for beaches and 72 are for marinas.

Cataluña is the autonomous region with most flags, 112, which recognise the water quality and beach facilities on offer at each location. Galicia follows with 105 and then Valencia with 100.

Spain continues to lead the list as the country with the most blue flag beaches in the world.

Special awards have been granted for life-saving and first aid provisions in Villaviciosa in Asturias and Gandía in Valencia.

Benidorm has lost its blue flag from the Poniente beach this year, and La Vila has lost all the flags it had. It’s because of work on the paseo maritimo. There are 44 along the entire Costa Blanca this year.

17 beaches and four marinas have won the award in Málaga province this year. Meanwhile it has been revealed that beach showers in Málaga are to be switched off at 8pm this summer, to save water.

A pdf list of this year’s Blue Flags can be seen here:
http://static.20minutos.es/adj/2008/05/28/1123.pdf

(Environment story)

 smartphone/pda/iphone |  email this article |  printer friendly page

 del.icio.us |  digg |  technorati |  yahoo | Stumble It!
Facebook | Reddit | Newsvine | Meneame | Wikio | Blink

ALSO SEE :
• Almuñécar cracks down on abandonded sunshades - Jul 29, 2008 - 7:39 AM
• Body washed up on the beach in Guardamar del Segura - Jul 9, 2008 - 8:09 AM
• Complaints of sand quality on Levante beach in Benidorm - Jun 24, 2008 - 7:56 AM
• New sand for the Levante beach in Benidorm - Jun 3, 2008 - 7:50 AM
• More measures to fight jellyfish on the Costa del Sol - May 27, 2008 - 7:46 AM
• Two lifeguards injured in Torrevieja jet ski accident - May 22, 2008 - 8:13 AM
• Makover project for the Baños del Carmen in Málaga on public display - Jan 31, 2008 - 8:09 PM
• Sailor in coma after accident off the Postiguet beach in Alicante - Oct 1, 2007 - 8:04 AM
• Another drowning on a beach in Torrevieja - Sep 21, 2007 - 8:37 AM
• Las Teresitas lags behind other beaches on Tenerife - Sep 18, 2007 - 9:44 PM