If your idea of the perfect holiday is lounging around on beautiful beaches, then Spain is most definitely the country for you, and with over 4000 kilometres of coastline to choose from you are as they say....spoilt for choice. If you decide to plan a beach holiday then the following guide will be of great help to you. It was to be called the top 10 beaches in Spain, then I thought well for lots of reasons i.e location, privacy, cleanliness, type of activities offered etc etc everyone has an opinion, so here are the beaches......you decide.

2012

538 Blue Flags have been awarded to Spain's beaches for 2012, which was an increase of 27 beaches on 2011 and means once again Spain has the highest number of blue flag beaches in the world. This is great news for the tourism industry and foreign visitors, around 85% choose coastal areas. 

The Blue flags where awarded to beaches located all around Spain's long coastline and where distributed around the autonomous regions as follows.

 

 

Andalucia: 77

Asturias: 19

Balearic Islands: 46

Canary Islands: 42

Catalonia: 87

Ceuta & Melilla: 3

Valencia : 108 

Galicia : 126

Murcia : 26

The Basque Country: 4