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Guide to Blanes, Spain: Gateway to the Costa Brava
Nativity Scene in Blanes
When you spend some time on Terrassan’s terrace, either enjoying the sun or the shade of the large umbrellas, you can hardly imagine what Blanes is like during the fall and winter months.
Here’s one thing you might not expect to see: the terrace of Cafe Terrassans now sports a huge nativity scene. Continue reading
Blanes sees waves up to 4 meters high in heavy rain storm
Catalonia last night was battered by a rain storm with strong gusts of wind and waves up to four meters high.
This time around no damage has been reported to the promenade along S’Abanell, the beach along Blanes’ tourist district. Continue reading
Part of Blanes’ old fish market demolished
Blanes’ old fish market — the red-roofed building next to fish restaurant Can Flores — has been demolished.
The building, abandoned years ago in favor of the town modern fish auction, was in poor repair. Heavy rains caused its rood to cave in. Continue reading
Blanes approves ambitious redevelopment project for tourist area beachfront
The city of Blanes has approved an ambitious redevelopment project for the beachfront in the resort’s popular El Pins district.
Besides giving the waterfront a new look, the upgrade is also expected to solve the recurring problems of low levels of sand — as well as other storm damage — at S’Abanell beach. Continue reading
No Gay Pride in Blanes
If you came to Blanes this past weekend expecting to find the Gay Pride 2010 festival, you were out of luck.
The city, which just last year declared itself to be ‘gay friendly’, denied organizers a permit saying that gay tourism cannot coexist with the family-friendly image Blanes wants to portray. Continue reading
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