Playa Artola is the beach situated to the west of Cabopino Marina. This is on a promenant part of the coast called Punta Ladrones. One assumes ladrones (robbers) prefered to come ashore on promentaries rather than inlets. A very early partly restored square plan watch tower bears testiment to this and is also called Torre Ladrones watch tower.
The famous Nikki Beach club in the gardens of the Don Carlos Hotel is located here, so there is no shortage of celebrities and glamourous folk on Las Chapas beach. It is very popular and busy in summer. The main access to the western end of the beach is via the urbanisation roads that lead down tot he beach from the Elveria shopping centre or Alanda club or Don Carlos Hotel.
Los Monteros beach is situated next to Hotel Los Monteros and the Urbanization Bahia de Marbella part of Urbanizacion Los Monteros. It is a large beach; 2km long but quite narrow in places. Playa Los Monteros is a relatively quiet beach; it is a fine sandy and pebble free beach and the sea shore is quite shallow.
El Pinillo beach is a relatively large stretch of beach; it is over 1.5km long. It is an attractive beach with large areas of sand dunes. The land behind the beach is only built.
Funny Beach is so called because it hosted a karting track of that name on the land just behind the beach. The official name for this beach is the west end of Playa el Pinillo. Funny Beach is just east of Banana Beach, and lies just outside of Marbella town central area.
Banana Beach is the common unoficial name for the stretch of beach at the east end of Playa El Cable. This beach is popular with young people and a number of bars play music. It is referenced as being just down from the Marbella arch and there is some parking available.
El Cable beach is approximately 400m long. It is situated to the east of the Fishing Port whose breakwater bounds the beach. This beach is very busy as it is a popular destination for summer holiday visitors, it has slightly less Marbella glamour than other beaches in Marbella. It is a popular spot for younger people. It is a wide beach and does not have a paseo maritimo yet.
La Bajadilla beach is situated to the west of Marbella´s Fishing Port. At one end it is very wide as it ocupies the triangle against the breakwaters of the port. It is 700m long and on averge 40m wide It is backed by the paseo maritimo so it is accessible from a number of front line hotels and accomodations. It is only a short walk from the Old Town.
La Venus beach, named after the bronze statue placed there in 1972, is also known as Playa el Fuerte named after the Fuerte (Castle) and later the Fuerte Hotel opened in 1956.
Playa el Faro is situated just to the west of Marbella Port and enclised by the breakwater. It is a very small stretch of beach only 200m X 30m and is very sheltered. This is a very busy beach because of it´s convenient location in the centre of Marbella, close to a number of hotels and not far from the Old Town.
Playa Fontanilla is a beach located to the west of Marbella Marina - the Marbella Puerto Deportivo. The beach is approximately 1km long. It backs onto the paseo maritimo which has multiple facilities; it is full of restaurants, cafés and shops. This beach offers a wide variety of water sports, including jet skis.
Nagüeles beach is a very popular beach found on Marbella´s famous "Golden Mile" along the paseo maritimo. It is approximately 1.5km long and thank to a espigon (breakwater) at the west end, it is wider than others in the area as the sand is retained. Due to its massive popularity this beach is always very busy, especially during peak summer months.
Is a beach situated between Marbella and Puerto Banus, next to the El Ancón Urbanization. El Ancón beach is approximately 1km long and quite narrow being 15m wide. It is backed by a pedestrian seafront promenade. It has the typically dark mediterranean sand found all over the Costa del Sol.
Playa Rio Verde is just to the east of Puerto Banus, next to the Rio Verde itself; to access the beach from Puerto Banus you cross over the river on a stylish wooden footbridge where you can watch wader birds in the reeds of the river.
Playa Nueva Andalucia is the name of the length of a number of diverse small connected beaches facing the area known as Nueva Andalucia, and just west of popular celebrity haunt Puerto Banus and up to the Guadaiza river.
Playa LindaVista is in the San Pedro de Alcántara area of Marbella at the western end of the seafron promenade. It is a very narrow beach, and quite small. The beach is accessible by road via the coppice of trees area that lies next to it.
It lies just to the east of the Guadalmina River, and bounds the Guadalmina Urbanisation of Marbella it is close to the Hotel Guadalmina Golf and Spa Resort. If you fancy a cultural break from the sun and sea whilst you are there, you can visit the nearby Roman Baths: Las Bovedas. just behind its eastern end of the beach by Arroyo de Chopo.
Playa Alicate is also known as Playa Pinomar, it is 850m long and 25m wide. It is one of the surprising busy beaches in the Marbella area. This is because it is relatively narrow and it is backed by a number of large urbanisations such as El Rosario, Urb. Playas Andaluzas, Urb. Costabella, Urb Andasol.
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Being a coastal town on the Costa del Sol, Marbella is certainly not short of beaches. Marbella has it all: beaches for familes, couples, friends and singles alike. Marbella beaches include some water sports centres, all have chiringuitos (beach bars), there are a handful of luxury beach clubs, many beach-front restaurants and beach-front hotels.
