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Boats moored on the pontoons of a Costa Blanca marina at sunset

Torrevieja, Costa Blanca

The pink salt lake, a big working town and long sandy beaches.

Costa Blanca · Alicante

About Torrevieja

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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Things to do

  • 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

Restaurants

  • Fish restaurants around the fishing port
  • Rice and caldero in the old town streets

Family activities

  • Aquopolis Torrevieja
  • The floating sea platforms in summer
  • Bike hire along the seafront

Walks

  • The Torrevieja to La Mata seafront path
  • Laguna Rosa lakeside circuit

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

Torrevieja photo gallery

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Sunrise over the salt lagoons at Torrevieja

Blog posts about Torrevieja

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Boats moored on the pontoons of a Costa Blanca marina at sunset

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