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World > Europe > Spain > Barcelona > Mar Bella
Beach Information for Mar Bella
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This beach is located at 41° 23' 49" N x 2° 12' 42" E (Latitude: 41.3972, Longitude: 2.2117). You can map this location with Google Maps, Google Earth, MSN (map or satellite view), MapQuest, or MultiMap.
This beach is also known as:
- Platja de la Mar Bella
Clothing optional (naturist) beach in the Barcelona city center.
This beach has been identified as being either an official or unofficial clothing optional beach with common nude use. For a list of more naturist beaches take a look at the complete list of clothing optional beaches.
Other beaches near Mar Bella
These are closest beaches with coordinates to this beach.
- Bogatell
(0.3 miles / 0.5 km SW) (3 photos) - Nova Mar Bella (0.4 miles / 0.6 km NE) (1 photo)
- Nova Icaria [Nova Icària] (0.8 miles / 1.2 km SW) (1 photo)
- Barceloneta (1.4 miles / 2.3 km SW) (1 review, 1 photo, 1 link)
- Sant Sebastia [Sant Sebastià] (1.9 miles / 3.1 km SW) (1 photo)
- Sant Sebastia Sitges (23.4 miles / 37.7 km W/SW)
- Fregata (23.7 miles / 38.1 km W/SW)
- Ribera (23.8 miles / 38.3 km W/SW)
- Bassa Rondona (24.0 miles / 38.6 km W/SW)
- Estanyol (24.2 miles / 38.9 km W/SW)
Towns near Mar Bella
These are the closest towns with coordinates to this beach.
- Barcelona (2.2 miles / 3.5 km W) (1 link)
- Sant Adria de Besos [Sant Adrià de Besòs] (2.3 miles / 3.6 km N)
- Badalona (3.9 miles / 6.3 km N/NE)
- Santa Coloma de Gramenet (5.0 miles / 8.1 km N)
- Montcada i Reixac (6.6 miles / 10.6 km N/NW)
- L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (6.6 miles / 10.7 km W/SW)
- Sant Just Desvern (6.9 miles / 11.1 km W)
- Esplugues de Llobregat (7.1 miles / 11.4 km W/SW)
- Sant Joan Despi [Sant Joan Despí] (7.6 miles / 12.2 km W/SW)
- Ripollet (7.6 miles / 12.2 km N/NW)
Reviews of Mar Bella
Trip report by "Anonymous" on 21-Apr-2007
To clarify - this is an official nude beach and there are fixed signs piled into the sand proclaiming it. That said, having been to numerous nude beaches, this is definitely one of the most interesting in terms of how open it is.
The crowd is mellow and some nice trance music is DJed from the nearby cafe (as is the case all along Barcelona's beaches). Cool scene, highly recommended.
Trip report by "BeachComber" on 15-Aug-2006
In early July of 2006 I had the opportunity to spend five days on Mar Bella beach in Barcelona. This covered a Sunday through Thursday span during morning and afternoon which gave me the opportunity to get a feel for the beach during both weekend and weekday periods and at different times of the day.
Situated between two break waters, Mar Bella is one of the farthest beaches from downtown. Only Nova Mar Bella is further out. A board walk runs behind the beach, and on all the way to Port Olympic and beyond. About one third of the beach is shielded from the board walk by a high sand dune. The beach runs roughly southwest (closest to downtown and Port Olympic) to northeast with the high dune behind the southwest 1/3 of the beach.
From what I've read in different sources, there is n...
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Photos of Mar Bella
Photos submitted by World Beach List visitors.
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Links for Mar Bella
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