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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 23:13:00

Stretching for 1.1 kilometres along Barcelona's Mediterranean waterfront, this sandy strip was barely recognisable before the 1992 Olympic Games transformed the city's relationship with the sea. The area that is now one of southern Europe's most visited urban beaches was previously an industrial zone of warehouses and railway sidings, cut off from the old fishing quarter by decades of neglect. A comprehensive regeneration programme demolished the waterfront factories, rerouted the rail lines un...