Torrevieja
The pink salt lake, a big working town and long sandy beaches.
Costa Blanca · Alicante
Torrevieja is the working heart of the southern Costa Blanca — a proper Spanish town with a marina, a long promenade and two enormous salt lagoons behind it, one of them famously pink.
It is where we go for the big Friday market, the water park and a supermarket shop, and it is a good rainy-day option because so much of it is indoors or under cover.
Torrevieja sits on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante.
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- Las Salinas — the pink lake at Laguna Rosa de Torrevieja
- The marina and seafront promenade
- Museo del Mar y de la Sal and the moored submarine S-61 Delfín
- Aquopolis water park in summer
Best beaches
- Playa del Cura — central, sandy and lifeguarded
- Playa de los Locos — wide with plenty of space
- La Mata — long, dune-backed and much quieter
Family activities
- Aquopolis Torrevieja
- The floating sea platforms in summer
- Bike hire along the seafront
Restaurants
- Fish restaurants around the fishing port
- Rice and caldero in the old town streets
Markets
- Friday market on Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas — one of the largest in the region
- Sunday flea market at the Nautical Club
Hidden gems
- The eastern shore of the Laguna Rosa for the best pink at low sun
- La Mata natural park boardwalks behind the dunes
Walks
- The Torrevieja to La Mata seafront path
- Laguna Rosa lakeside circuit
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