Costa de la Luz Map
This is the only coast in this collection that is not Mediterranean. The Costa de la Luz faces the Atlantic, from the Portuguese border round to the Strait of Gibraltar, and everything follows from that: bigger surf, stronger wind, wider beaches, cooler water and far fewer high-rise blocks. Tarifa at the southern tip is the windsurfing capital of Europe for the same reason.
How to use this map
The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.
Town guides on this coast
- Algeciras — the historic Plaza Alta, Getares beach, Strait of Gibraltar views
- Aljaraque — On the edge of the Odiel marshes biosphere reserve
- Almonte — gateway to Doñana National Park and the El Rocío pilgrimage
- Arcos de la Frontera — a clifftop white town above the Guadalete, with a cliff-edge square
- Ayamonte — a Guadiana border town facing Portugal, whitewashed streets
- Barbate — an Atlantic tuna port
- Cartaya — the sandbar beaches of El Rompido
- Chiclana de la Frontera — What Chiclana de la Frontera is really like
- Chipiona — Spain’s tallest lighthouse, the long Playa de Regla
- Conil de la Frontera — a white old town, Atlantic beaches
- Cádiz — Western Europe’s oldest city, a walled seafront old town, La Caleta beach
- El Campillo — a Riotinto mining town in Huelva, gateway to the red Río Tinto
- El Puerto de Santa María — What El Puerto de Santa María is really like
- Huelva — Columbus history, the Muelle del Tinto
- Isla Cristina — a great Atlantic fishing port, a famous carnival
- La Línea de la Concepción — sandy beaches with Rock-of-Gibraltar views
- Lepe — a Huelva strawberry town on the Costa de la Luz
- Los Barrios — gateway to the Los Alcornocales cork forest and Palmones estuary
- Moguer — home of Nobel poet Juan Ramón Jiménez and a Columbus port town
- Olvera — a hilltop white town crowned by a Moorish castle and church
- Palos de la Frontera — the port where Columbus sailed in 1492
- Puerto Real — a royal-founded town on the Bay of Cádiz
- Punta Umbría — a sandy spit between ocean and estuary
- Rota — wide Bay of Cadiz beaches, the Castillo de Luna
- San Fernando — Camposoto beach, salt flats
- San Roque — a Campo de Gibraltar town founded by Gibraltar exiles
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda — What Sanlúcar de Barrameda is really like
- Setenil de las Bodegas — white houses built into and under the cliffs of the Trejo gorge
- Tarifa — kitesurf beaches, the southern tip of mainland Europe
- Ubrique — the leather-making pueblo blanco of the Sierra de Cádiz between the Grazalema
- Vejer de la Frontera — a walled white town on a hill above the Costa de la
For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.