Benidorm, Everything you've always wanted to know about Benidorm and the Costa de Levante in Spain

Benidorm’s beaches are of vital importance not only because they are the city’s principal tourist attraction but because they add to the image and the identity of the resort. In fact, starting in the 1960s, Benidorm was re-built as a new city which had as its most significant feature its beaches and they determined the situation and expansion of the city; this fact probably makes Benidorm unique in the history of urban development. In this sense the beaches continue to be of great consequence as they are the dynamo which drives the progress of the city to the rhythm of its own needs.

Even at times when the importance of the beaches has to be shared with other elements which complement it in making up the touristic offer, they still remain the main symbol by which Benidorm is identified and a source of pleasure for tourist. In Benidorm the beach and the sea are the herat of tourist life, not only for the city and visitors but also for a very wide area around it from which the inhabitants are also attarcted to relax in their delightful atmosphere.

Levante
Between Punta Pinet and Punta Canfali, a wide bay of more than two kilometres long shapes, with an urban beach, being without a doubt, one of the most bustling and crowded beaches in the Mediterranean coast. Thanks to its orientation, sunbathing until late in the afternoon in summer and until the sun sets in winter is possible. It has fine and golden sand and clear waters, and is decorated with palms giving it a very attractive aspect. The beach is delimited by a well cared waterfront, where restaurants, cafés and pubs follow one another. Beach adapted to people with reduced mobility.

Poniente
This beach of more than three kilometres long, with clear waters and fine golden sand, whose succession of palms makes it more attractive, if that is possible, extends from the port to the headland known as Cabezo del Tosal. Both the beach and the waterfront delimiting it show a bustling aspect at any time of the day. Beach adapted with all necessary facilities to people with reduced mobility.

Cala Mal Pas
This small creek with fine and golden sand showing a quieter ambience and dividing the crowed Levante and Poniente beaches is located between Punta Canfali and the port. In front of the beach is Isla Benidorm, which shelters a submerged platform known as La Llosa, an important Marine Reservation with excellent sea bottoms being a real present for diving keens.

Cala Ti Ximo
Naturist beach. The northern coast in Benidorm is very uneven and inaccessible from land because of the enormous cliffs delimiting the spectacular Sierra Helada massif. But in the last stretch, between Punta de La Escaleta and Punta Pinet, small sandy and stony creeks follow one another offering beautiful rocky sea bottoms very suitable for diving.