Playa de Tablizo, Protected beach in Valdés, Spain

Playa de Tablizo is a straight beach about 230 m long and 15 m wide in the council of Valdés, near Cape Busto. Its mixed bed combines slate with patches of toasted-coloured, medium-grained feldspathic sand. A stream mouth cuts the beach, and a 200 m pebble bank at its western end can only be reached at low tide.

Playa de Tablizo lies in the concejo of Valdés, within the Paisaje Protegido de la Costa Occidental de Asturias, the protected landscape created for this stretch of the Asturian western coast. The beach belongs to the village of Tablizo, near Cabo Busto, and has remained largely unbuilt, with a mixed bed of slate and toasted feldspathic sand.

The beach takes its name from the village of Tablizo, whose western edge is the starting point of the dirt track down to the sand. The river mouth at the beach and the 200-metre rock field at its western end, reachable only at low tide, are the features locals know it by. Rod fishing and underwater fishing are the activities practised here.

From the western end of Tablizo a dirt track leads to the beach; leave the railway tracks behind and, about 200 m past the village sign, follow a 900 m path whose last stretch is often flooded by a stream. The 200 m pebble bank at the western end can only be reached at low tide, and mud on the rocks makes slips likely.

A colony of European shag nests on the beach, and the western stretch of about 200 m, a boulder field, can only be reached at low tide. Mud patches near the rocks make slips likely, so watch your footing.