Playa de las Catedrales

Ribadeo, Galicia · 🇪🇸 Spain

Cathedral-like rock arches and buttresses you can walk beneath when the Atlantic tide retreats.

Sea temperature

~19°C in the warm season

Water

Cold, clear Cantabrian green-blue

Sand

Golden sand revealed only at low tide

Swimming

Cool; best explored on foot at low tide

Best time to visit

Jun-Sep at low tide

Setting

Soaring rock arches and flying-buttress sea stacks

Beach type

Exotic sands

Region

Europe

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