A beach is a repository of sediments unconsolidated ranging from sand and gravel, excluding the mud as it is not an alluvial plain or coast mangrove, which extends from the base of the dune or the limit where the vegetation ends to a depth where sediments no longer move. This depth varies between beach and beach depending on bathymetry, geomorphology and waves.
The Barceloneta beach is the oldest and most famous beaches of the city of Barcelona ( Spain or Catalonia ). It was renovated just before the 1992 Olympics. It is located in the district of La Barceloneta ( Ciutat Vella ). Along with the beach of San Sebastián and Playa de la Victoria, it is one of the longest with a length of 1,100 meters. Along with San Sebastián (nearest beach) it is one of the oldest and most traditional of the city and also one of the preferred by foreign users.
Leisure offers as areas of volleyball, shovels, playground, etc. It has a nudist area and has a pretty nearest metro stop, the station Barceloneta and Ciutadella. Nearby is the Parque de la Barceloneta. The Barceloneta beach is a beach of Barcelona district of Barceloneta, located in the district of Old City. It offers recreational facilities such areas volleyball, stain-stain, playground, etc. One of the most popular beaches and has a stop metro force nearby the station Barceloneta and Ciutadella.
Barcelona has over 4.2 kilometers of beaches. Les playes are dafechu céntriques, Tan and Tan al comunicáes centru asitiáes minutes from cualisquier Puntu of Ciuda. Barcelona Currently there are 10 beaches, the best known are the beach of San Sebastian and Barceloneta, in the middle of both the beach in San Miguel. The large recovery of the seafront Barcelona did not start until they organize the 1992 Olympic Games, prior to the 1980s opened the heart of the wood for the Olympic Games was recovered in the area of Port Olympic to the beach Bogatell, area where there had been the shanty town of Somorrostro. In the late 1990s he recovered the beach of Mar Bella and Nova Mar Bella and the arrival of the Universal Forum of Cultures recovered the last part of the Forum bathing area.
The urban development of the city is marked in recent years by numerous large-scale projects that have an improvement of the infrastructure and the quality of life goal, such as the rehabilitation of the beaches, the new building of the district Diagonal Mar on the occasion of the International Forum of Cultures 2004 and the Construction of high-speed rail route AVE from Madrid via Zaragoza and Barcelona to France.
One of the attractions that Barcelona has built in recent years are its new beaches. Thanks to the regeneration of the coast held in 1992, during the Olympic Games, Barcelona now has nine beaches and a bathing area they occupy more than 4.2 linear kilometers of coastline. The beaches are full downtown, are connected to the center and are located just minutes from anywhere in the city. All are equipped with the most complete services: showers, surveillance, Red Cross and, in some cases, changing rooms, rental hammocks, chiringuitos. The beaches are subjected to cleaning every day throughout the year, and all have blue flag European Union approves its excellence.
According to the City Council, each year receive more than seven million bathers. Although most are concentrated in the warmer months between May and September, citizens and visitors can also enjoy the beaches the rest of the year, as they are equipped to play tennis, beach volleyball and other sports. On the beach of Barceloneta, next to the Hotel Arts, there is a modern municipal thalassotherapy center, Maritime Sports, supplied with sea water pools, and allowing the enjoyment of sports and health services throughout the year. The ten beaches are, from south to north, the beach of San Sebastian, San Miguel, Barceloneta, Somorrostro, New Icaria, Bogatell, Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella, Levante and bathrooms Forum. On the beach of Mar Bella there is a space reserved for gay people.
Another important gate of the city, especially for freight, is the Port of Barcelona. The port was born while the city of Barcelona as a natural port on a beach that was between a small peninsula formed the mountain Montjuic and the old mouth of the river Llobregat.
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