Barcelona has some great public beaches like Barceloneta - Mar Bella beach - Icaria Beach - San Sebastia Beach.

There are over 4 km of beach front only 10 minutes from the city centre. As you get out of Barceloneta Metro station Yellow Line, L4 head south towards the Port Vell marina. The road you want is on the other side of the large green roundabout.

The road is called Passeig de Joan de Borbo. Keep the water and the row upon row of pleasure boats on your right. At the end of the road you will see the long sandy San Sebastia beach and the deep blue water of the Mediterranean sea.

It gets quite crowded in the summer. You may want to try a beach further up the coast near another marina full of expensive pleasure boats. It is called Icaria Beach.

The nearest Metro station is called Ciutadella-Villa-Olimipica Yellow Line, L4. When you get out of that metro station you just walk down the road called Carrer de Ramon Trias Fargas. The beach and marina is at the bottom of the street.

We went for an early Sunday morning stroll along the beach. We got out at the Barceloneta Metro and made our way to the beach. We walked north along the beach promenade towards the Olympic marina. We had breakfast in one of the Beach cafes before catching the Metro back into the city at the Ciutadella-Villa-Olimipica metro station.

You can also get to the beach from Poblenou Metro station on the Yellow Line, L4. This beach south of the other two beaches. You will have to walk for about 20 min along the road called Carrer de Bilbao. Unofficially it is a nudist beach but you do not have to take off all your clothes if you do not want to.

Clothing is optional. Spanish law says that it is permissible to be nude anywhere as long as it does not cause a disturbance. There is no such thing as an official nudist beach in Spain. It has become a nudist beach by locals not objecting

The Barcelona beaches are safe clean beaches but as on any beach be careful and look after your property There are pick pockets about. They sit near you and the moment you look elsewhere they are gone with your things!

Gaudi's Casa Batllo Roof

Before you go to the beach visit the top of one of Gaudi's amazing buildings. Go onto the roof of his Casa Batllo. Get there early as the queues get very long quickly.

Do not be put off by the queues as the inside is worth it. The photograph below looks like the roof beams have been made from a whale's skeleton. Having become hot through all that sight seeing now would be a good time to head for the beach.

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