Playa de Valdelagrana, Beach destination in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain

Playa de Valdelagrana is a beach of fine golden sand in El Puerto de Santa María, between the mouth of the Guadalete river and Playa de Levante, on the inner spit of the Bay of Cádiz. Its urbanised stretch runs 2,070 m, with an average width of 73 m and a slope of about 8%. A promenade of more than 1,400 m runs along it, and beyond it lie several kilometres of the Los Toruños natural park.

Until the 1950s Valdelagrana belonged to the House of Medinaceli, and urban development began only in the 1960s, when the present-day resort area beside the beach took shape. The sources record no Phoenician, Roman or Moorish trading role for this stretch of sand.

The beach takes its name from the Valdelagrana housing estate built behind it from the 1960s, on land that belonged to the House of Medinaceli until the 1950s. Its 1,400-metre promenade is where residents of El Puerto walk, and the adjoining Los Toruños park has cycle paths through salt flats fed by the San Pedro river.

The beach runs from the Guadalete river mouth to Levante beach, with a promenade of over 1,400 m along it and access from the CA-32 road. Lifeguard boats, watchtowers, first-aid post, showers and toilets are installed. The Cercanías train stops two stations from Jerez centre and ten from Cádiz centre.

In 1996 a crab species, Polybius dioscurus, was discovered here, linked to three endemic hermit crab species. The beach lies between the Guadalete river mouth and Levante beach, on the inner sandspit of the Bay of Cádiz, and its fine golden sand is classed as a cord-and-shell beach.