This year, Spain has got a new record, thanks to receive 681 Blue Flags, between beaches and marinas.
In Andalussia, we have received 98 blue flags and 21 belong to Malaga:
Beach "Los Boliches", Fuengirola, Malaga, South eastern Spain
But there are another beaches in Andalussia:
"La Alcaidesa" (Cadiz "El Palmar" (Barbate, Cadiz)
"La Barrosa" (Chiclana, Cadiz
Alicante is the leader, receiving 74 blue flags, in beaches and marinas:
Beach "Carabassi", Elche, Alicante, Eastern Spain
In Valencia, they got 135 blue flags:
Beach "Xeraco", Valencia, Eastern Spain
Canarias has gotten 48 Blue Flags:
Beach of Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Canarian Islands, South western Spain
Spain is the first country (with 573 blue flags for beaches). The second country is Greece (with 407 blue flags). The following is Turkey (with 397 blue flags). After it is France (with 379 blue flags) and the following is Portugal (with 298 blue flags).
So, now Spain has 34 Blue Flags more than the last year (23 beaches and 11 marinas)..
At a press conference, the President of the Association of Environmental and Consumer Education (ADEAC), José Ramón Sánchez Moro, explained that this result strengthens the global leadership in Spain continuously, since 1987.
The ADEAC is the Spanish branch of the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and is responsible for the campaign of the Blue Flags, for two decades.
In the case of Spain, the increase of blue flags beaches and ports is not distributed evenly among the CCAA: some remain --as Ceuta, Melilla and Extremadura— and others suffer insignificant variations --Catalonia, Asturias and Cantabria only get one more--.
Those who performed best in 2014 are Baleares and Murcia, although "this is artificial because they recover what they had lost before", Sanchez Moro has qualified.
In total, the International Blue Flag Jury 2014 awarded 4023 badges.
Regarding the total number of outstanding beaches Galicia 123 (-4) and Valencia with 120 (+6) followed by Catalonia with 89 (-1), Andalusia with 81 (+3), Baleares 61 (+15) Canary 43 (+1) and Murcia with 31 (+7); by marinas occupy the first places Catalonia and the Balearic both with 24.
During this year the number of participating coastal municipalities has remained around 240 municipalities, of which some 216 have obtained any Blue Flag, in 2014.
All these data indicate that one in five Spanish beaches this summer will fly the Blue Flag and one in six blue flags, waving in the world, will do this summer at the Spanish coast.
During the ceremony, the Secretary of State for Tourism, Isabel Borrego, stressed the high quality of our beaches and recalled that Spain with its 8,000 miles of coastline and some of them have more than 300 days of sunshine, "incentive bonus" for foreigners in a large majority is what they seek.
For Borrego, the flag means that accessibility to beaches is correctly attended, also the quality of water and sand, safety and cleanliness, attributes that determine the satisfaction of the tourists properly served.
Regarding the Castor project, has said that the next depends on the studies that have been commissioned experts and that currently the project has not affected tourism and therefore its continuity depends on these reports.
In terms of thematic distinctions, Blue Flag has awarded to the Spanish municipalities, who highlight excellence in rescue and relief issues, environmental education and information and removal of architectural barriers and care for people with disabilities and the classic urban waste management, electrical and waste batteries.
Thus, lifeguard stand the municipalities of Xeraco (Valencia), Santiago del Teide (Tenerife) and Benitaxel (Alicante) and removal of architectural barriers stand the municipalities of Muro (Mallorca, Baleares), Vélez-Málaga (Málaga) and santa Eulalia del Riu (Ibiza).
The improved management of urban wastes has fallen to Los Alcazares, in Murcia, while information and environmental education is led by the Marina of Vilanova Aurosa (Pontevedra).
The organization wanted to promote the "Blue Trail Network", routes that link beaches or marinas, being Galicia (15) and Valencia (13), which contribute more.
Well, I am proud of Spain and I am glad, thinking that more foreign people will trust in my country.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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