Playa de Tazones, Coastal beach in Tazones, Spain

Playa de Tazones is a 200-metre-long beach in an urban setting at the heart of the fishing port of Tazones, about 10 km from Villaviciosa in Asturias. It has vehicle access and is listed as a Site of Community Importance within the Costa Oriental de Asturias. At its pebble bank, about 120 m from the information panel at the beach entrance, tridactyl dinosaur footprints lie on a grey layer of the Tereñes formation, visible at low tide.

The sources document no founding date or shipbuilding history for Tazones; they place the beach within the fishing port of Tazones, 10 km from Villaviciosa, and record its inclusion in the Costa Oriental de Asturias and its LIC designation. The dinosaur footprints in the beach's rocky area belong to the Tereñes and Vega formations, geological layers far older than the village itself.

Tazones is a fishing port whose quayside restaurants serve the day's catch of fish and shellfish, and the beach sits at the heart of that harbour. The dinosaur footprints in the beach's rocky outcrop are another draw: tridactyl tracks of bipedal dinosaurs lie about 120 m from the information panel at the sand's entrance, visible at low tide.

The beach has road access and parking, with lifeguards on duty. The dinosaur footprints in the grey Tereñes layer, about 120 m from the information panel at the sand's entrance, can only be reached at low tide. More tridactyl prints lie 480 m further on in the Vega formation, and others on a signposted cliff off the left side of the road to the lighthouse.

In the beach's rocky area, about 120 metres from the information panel at the entrance, a grey layer of the Tereñes formation holds several three-toed footprints of bipedal dinosaurs, some forming a track. They are visible at low tide. Another three-toed print appears 480 metres further on, in the river-formed Vega formation.