'World's longest seafront esplanade' to open in Lanzarote
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 @ 2:56 PM
LANZAROTE is due to open the longest seafront promenade in the world – 26 kilometres (16-and-a-quarter miles).
Starting in Costa Teguise and finishing in Puerto del Carmen, passing the island's capital – Arrecife (pictured) – in the middle, the forthcoming esplanade is double the length of Spain's current longest, which is in the north-western city of A Coruña, in Galicia, and over two-and-a-half times the length of the promenade in Atlantic City, New Jersey (USA).
The latter is among the longest in the world at 9.25 kilometres (just over five-and-a-half miles).
Once Lanzarote's esplanade is open, something that authorities say will happen very shortly, tourists will be able to literally walk or cycle to the airport along the coast, and to the port.
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