Playa de Los Molinos de Barcia, Protected beach in Barcia, Spain

Playa de Los Molinos de Barcia is a small beach in the council of Valdés, Asturias, within the Protected Landscape of the Western Coast of Asturias. It is about 200 metres long and 15 to 20 metres wide, with a bed of rounded pebbles and coarse dark sand. The Ricante stream reaches the sea at the beach, and the water mills that gave it its name stood about 200 metres away.

The beach is named after old mills about 200 metres from the sand, which used the water of the Ricante stream as motive power; that stream reaches the sea at the beach itself. The mills are no longer described as standing in the sources, which record only that they were old and that the name comes from them.

The name comes from old mills about 200 m from the sand, turned by water from the Ricante stream that reaches the sea here. The beach lies in the Paisaje Protegido de la Costa Occidental de Asturias, in the council of Valdés, and is little used.

From Caroyas, a road heads 1.5 km toward the sea to a rebuilt access point; from there a good, easy path descends another 1.5 km to the sand. A longer but more scenic alternative starts in Leiján. The beach has no services for bathers, and because the bed is nearly flat, waves sweep it strongly and can knock you onto the rocks.

The Ricante stream reaches the sea across the beach itself, not over a cliff, and the old mills that gave the cove its name stood about 200 m inland and used its water as motive power. The beach is about 200 m long and 15-20 m wide, with a bed of rounded pebbles and coarse dark sand. Because the bed is nearly horizontal, waves sweep it strongly and can knock bathers onto the rocks.