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      This year, 2015, in Spain, we have achieved 678 Blue Flags (577 beaches and 101 a marinas. They are 4 beaches more than the last year. And this means that one, in six flags in the world, will flap, in Spain. And also, that, in one in five Spanish beaches, a Blue Flag will flap).

      Galice, with 131 awards, to beaches, and 40 coastal municipalities, stands at the head of the autonomous communities, in the number of blue flags, ahead of Valencia (120), Catalonia (89) and Andalusia (78). There are eight more flags,  than during the summer of 2014.

      The municipality, with more blue flags, is still Sanxenxo (Pontevedra), with 12 beaches, although it has lost two (Caneliñas and Paxariñas). Cangas remains the second municipality, with more accolades, to keep ten achieved, during the summer of 2014. The winners, in this province, also adds Ponte Caldelas, which manages a banner, to the river beach of A Calzada, the first time that a sandy area, of these features, is achieved in Galice. Moreover, Marin added further recognition, to the beach of Santo and add 4.

      “A Calzada” is located in the municipality of Ponte Caldelas (Pontevedra, South of Galice).

Ponte Caldelas

      The river beach of Ponte Caldelas is 250 meters long and gets about 250 visitors, a day, on average. It is a bathing area, formed by a stone dam, in riparian forest of birch, chestnut and oak. The quality of these waters was rated, as excellent, in the season 2014.

      From the bridge, that crosses the river Verdugo, in Puente Caldelas, leaves a little walk of less than 1 kilometre, along the riverbank, up to the river beach of Puente Caldelas, the first beach of inland waters, in Galice, awarded by the Association for Environmental Education and Consumer (Adeac).

      The incorporation of “A Calzada”, to the list of beaches, with Blue Flags, in Galice, is not the only case. In the province of Pontevedra, it is also a novelty the beach of Santo, in Marin. In A Corunia, the beaches: “Meirás-O Rio” (Valdoviño), “Frouxeira”, “Bale”, ”Pantin” and “Villarrube”, next to “Langosteira” (in Finisterre) is new. The new banners, in Lugo, were granted to the sandy areas of Xilloi, in O Vicedo; to the Os Xuncos and As Polas, in Foz; to the lathe, in Cervo; to the Area, in Viveiro.​

Beach of Meirás

Beach of Xilloi

Beach of Area

      Well, I think this is a good opportunity, in order that you go to Galice, if you do not know it.

      Until my next post, kind regards,

Luis.

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