The blue flag will fly on 589 beaches in Spain this summer!
Spain will display this summer 688 'Blue Flags' (589 beaches, 98 marinas and five in sustainable tourist boats), thus maintaining its world leadership.
Starting in June, 589 blue flags will wave on the beaches of our country, 23 more than in 2019 , being the Valencian Community the one that has achieved the most.
The new beaches that obtain the Blue Flag for the first time are: La Chapineta (Cartagena), Lance Nuevo (Mojácar), Las Nieves (Agaete), El Muelle (Garachico), El Caletón Natural Pools (Garachico), Agra (Sanxenxo), Carril (Vigo), Compostela (Vilagarcía de Arousa) and Arnao (Castrilon).
Las Canteras Beach in Gran Canaria
The Blue Flag is an annual award given by the European Foundation for Environmental Education to beaches that meet a series of environmental conditions and facilities and for some time now, it has become the symbol, more recognizable and recognized by the millions of users of beaches and ports.
The criteria for obtaining the Blue Flag are reviewed and agreed upon annually at the international level by the National Operators and are divided into four large blocks: environmental information and education, water quality, environmental management and safety and services.
This year, they have participated in Blue Flag more than 2,000 municipalities, in 45 countries on 5 continents, with Spain being the country that has achieved the most flags.
Rodas Beach, Cíes Islands (Pontevedra)
The Valencian Community leads the number of blue flag beaches with 134, followed by Galicia (107), Andalusia (100), Catalonia (95), Canary Islands (51), Balearics (38), Murcia (26), Asturias (13), Cantabria (eleven), Basque Country (5), Melilla (4), Ceuta Y Estremadura (tied at 2) and Madrid (one, yes, in Madrid there is a beach and it is called Pantano de San Juan).
Spain maintains the figure of 589 beaches his continued leadership since 1987.
The first places in the international ranking are completed by: Greece (514), Turkey (508), France (507), Italy (482), and Portugal (387).
You can check the complete list of Spanish beaches with Blue Flag in 2020 here.
La Caleta beach; where summer begins and ends