The world has many strange, peculiar, fantastic places, and in Spain there are a handful of them. Within this special group there is a beach: the crystal beach. Do you know her? It is a beach that is In asturias.
We will talk about this peculiar and brilliant beach today.
Tourism in Asturias
Asturias is a great travel destination within Spain. It has something for every traveler offers diverse landscapes and activities. If you like nature here there are many protected areas, more than 10.600 square kilometers of land including there are seven Biosphere Reserves and thus, it is a true natural paradise.
So at the same time it's a great destination to do active tourism, adventure tourism: mountain biking, rock climbing, hiking, diving, surfing, canyoning or paragliding, just to name a few activities that travelers can do.
A good way to organize a trip to Asturias is to use the official application of Tourism Asturias. You will have in hand and at hand everything related to culture, gastronomy, nature, art, rural tourism, festivals. It contains more than 5 tourist resource files, more than 6 photos, 3 files with direct connection to the websites and telephone numbers of tourist resources, interactive maps and you can even make reservations online.
The App also allows you to save information offline and link events to the user's personal calendar. Finally, Asturias also offers us in Cultural Passport that allows us to obtain discounts on cultural activities and leisure activities related to cinema, theater, art, music or literature.
This passport can be obtained at the Tourist Information Offices of the Principality of Asturias in Oviedo, the Asturias Airport and Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, cultural spaces and some tourist establishments.
crystal beach
It is a beach that It is in the town of Antromero, in the parish of Bocines, within the Principality of Asturias. Asturias is divided into three zones, center, east and west. The beach is in the center, a fertile and wide area, with ten counties within.
The crystal beach belongs to the Cabo Peñas region, northern area of the principality, between Gijón and Avilés, with a great seafaring tradition. The beach is about seventy meters long and an average width of 20 or 30 meters, but it varies a lot.
It is a small sand and gravel beach with regular waves, so its width varies. It is also a somewhat secluded beach, located to the south of the marine town of Luanco. His official name? Bigaral beach, but as we all know it is known as the "crystals beach".
The name derives from the fact that for a long time this small cove was used as a glass dump. The sea did with them what it does with the sand, stir it up, break it, "knead" it in some way. Then those glasses began to break and today the beach has rounded crystals of different sizes and colors everywhere, mixing with the gravel and sand.
Imagine the colorful flashes seen under the sun and how the tones change when the sun hides behind the clouds. A beauty. So much so that it is a Natural heritage. It must be said that it is not so easy to get to, but it has a nearby car park. It does not have showers or bathrooms, there are no litter bins, it does not have an access walkway, nor can you rent sun loungers or umbrellas. You arrive on foot following some signs
Of course one can make a more general visit if he wants to visit the beach. Gozón is a land of cliffs and beaches, with a beautiful lighthouse that leads the landscape of the Cape of Peñas and a beautiful historic center. This is where fans of camping, coastal hiking and rural or ornotological tourism come.
Recall that Asturias has 345 kilometers of coastline with around 300 very different beaches., and in the central part, Where is Los Cristales beach, there are about 90 beaches in total.
We can add the Aguilera beach, golden and with strong waves, the Aramar beach, with rocks and closed by islets, Bañugues, an area with paleolithic archaeological sites very close, La Carriciega, within the Cabo de Peñas area, always with few people , and El Dique, almost virgin.
They are followed by the beaches of Gargantera, shaped like a shell, Llumeres, with somewhat reddish sand due to the nearby iron mines, La Ribera, at the bottom of the Lluanco bay, the beach of the town of Lluanco itself, the cove of Moniello or the semi-urban beach of Samarincha. The list goes on: if you are looking for dunes, head towards Tenrero beach or Xagó beach, if you are looking for fossil remains, be sure to visit San Pedro de Antromero beach.