The As Catedrais Beach is located in the vicinity of the town of Ribadeo, in the northwest of Spain. Its second name is Holy Water Beach. This is a unique combination of sharp rocks and ledges with the sea and sandy area, which opens to visitors only at low tide. The place is one of the favorites among tourists of all ages visiting Galicia.
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As Catedrais Beach is recognized as the most photographed and beautiful beach in Europe.
It is located just 10 km from the town of Ribadeo, so it is available for tourists traveling on their own, and travel agencies even sell entire tours here.
Holy Water Beach is a wild place, there are no cafes, sunbeds, and umbrellas familiar to tourists. This is due to the intermittent functioning of the beach - only at low tide. When the water rises, almost the entire sandy strip disappears, leaving only a small island of land at the stairs specially equipped for descending. All infrastructure is available above - at the entrance to the beach. Parking, tables, and benches create the atmosphere of a resort here on sunny days.
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The As Catedrais Beach is a great place to watch the water, sunsets, and sunrises, and the surrounding rocks complement its appearance and make it one of the most famous in the world.
The weather off the coast of the Bay of Biscay is changeable, it is often windy here, so the most convenient time to visit the beach is during the summer months of the year.
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Characteristic
The As Catedrais Beach is recognized as the most beautiful beach in Europe according to tourists. Their number is increasing every year. This place attracts visitors, first of all, with its natural landscape - a combination of rocks and rock ledges with ocean expanses.
The seasonality of visiting the beach is quite pronounced, the main months of the largest influx of tourists are July and August. This is due, in addition to being located near resorts, to the coastal climate: in the remaining months of the year, rather cold winds blow here, and being on the coast is also complicated by frequent fogs. Despite this, the beach is visited in any season: panoramic views of the sea and unusual relief attract photographers and tourists here in any weather.
Meteorologists, due to the peculiarities of the beach, quite accurately calculated the tide schedule, which you can navigate when visiting. You can see it on the official website of As Catedrais Beach in Spain. The difference in depth during high tide reaches 3.5–4 meters.
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Due to frequent tides, the beach cover does not have time to dry even under the rays of the sun, so when visiting, you must take this factor into account and take waterproof shoes with you: water lingers in the caves for a particularly long time - its level sometimes reaches 5–10 cm.
The As Catedrais Beach is completely sandy, and the sand is light yellow and white, which creates an additional attraction for visitors to the beach. The density of the sand is quite high, it is convenient to walk on it both in shoes and barefoot.
The water on the beach is bright turquoise, clear and clean. Due to the frequent high and low tides, you can swim in it for a strictly allotted amount of time, but at the same time, visitors experience a lot of pleasure precisely because of the purity of the water near the coast.
The descent into the water is gentle, and the depth is gained gradually, which allows tourists to freely walk along the water's edge, without fear of changes in the bottom topography.
A distinctive feature of the beach area is the close proximity of the ocean and rocks, which it undermines, creating cliffs and cliffs of incredible beauty, their height sometimes reaches 30 meters. They can only be entered at low tide. There are bizarrely shaped caves in the rocks, washed out by the ocean, which form whole tunnels that go deep into the rocks and wind there, creating labyrinths.