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20 of Europe's most stunning beaches to explore in 2024
27.02.2024 - 01:45 / lonelyplanet.com
No matter your taste in beach, Europe obliges.
With wild, wind-lashed shores along the Atlantic coast, mountain-fringed Arctic bays where whales raise their tails, and sunlit, snuggled-away coves of Italy and Greece, we bring you the cream of the European coast with these top 20 beaches.
Rearing up out of the Norwegian Sea like a dragon’s backbone, the Lofoten Islands off Norway’s northwest coast is the Arctic dream – whether seen in the never-dying light of the midnight sun or under dancing northern lights in winter snows. Haukland Beach is out of this world, with spiky granite peaks thrusting above creamy sands and sapphire sea. The water is chilly (never hitting more than 15°C/59°F), but you’ll be itching to jump in all the same.
Sardinia’s east coast Golfo di Orosei punches high for coastal beauty, but few beaches make you gasp out loud like sublime Cala Goloritzè, with its snow-white pebbles giving way to a sea of purest aquamarine blue. Limestone cliffs jut dramatically above the bay, as does Monte Caroddi, a 148m-high (486ft) needle of rock beloved of climbers. Reach it by boat or on the Cala Goloritzè Trail.
Be inspired by more stunning coves, bays and strands with Lonely Planet's book Best Beaches: 100 of the World's Most Incredible Beaches.
Out on a limb in the wild North Atlantic, Scotland's Outer Hebrides stash away some of Europe’s remotest beaches. Singling one out is tough, but West Beach on the wee isle of Berneray is divine. Through dunes and wind-bent machair grasses, you reach this ravishing 5km (3-mile) expanse of white sand, sliding gently into a turquoise sea. It’s often empty but for seabirds trilling overhead and the occasional porpoise or otter.
Plage de Palombaggia, in Corsica’s southeast, is one of the best beaches in France. It bewitches with its long curve of pale, powder-soft sand shelving into cerulean blue waters as clear as glass. Backed by fragrant umbrella pines, hemmed in by wooded hills that strum with cicadas come sundown, and overlooking the Îles Cerbicale, this could well be the beach of your wildest Mediterranean dreams. Bring a snorkel and picnic.
With its long sweep of bleach-blonde sand and translucent azure waters, Formentera’s Platja Illetes fits the barefoot paradise bill neatly. Comparisons are swiftly made with the Caribbean but, frankly, why would you want to imagine yourself anywhere else? The beach forms the western section of the slender Trucador Peninsula and just offshore are the two illetes (islets), Pouet and Rodona, which give the beach its name.
A breezy walk over gorse-cloaked clifftops on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path ramps up the anticipation for Barafundle Bay: an arc of butterscotch sand, rimmed by dunes that ease their way gently to clear
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