Platja de Sant Pol, Blue Flag beach in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain.
Platja de Sant Pol is a long sandy beach along the Mediterranean with shallow water that stretches between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and S'Agaró. The beach offers showers, adapted toilets, lounge chair rentals, restaurants, and a lifeguard station to help visitors during their time here.
The beach area began its transformation around 1900 when wealthy families built Modernist villas here between 1910 and 1915. This period marked the shift from a simple fishing area to a coastal destination for the well-to-do.
The seafront promenade passes Modernist mansions such as the Casa de les Punxes, also called Casa Estrada. Above the sand stands the Taverna del Mar, a building protected as a local cultural heritage asset. The eastern end, the Racó de s'Agaró, about 70 m long, belongs to the municipality of Castell d'Aro, Platja d'Aro i s'Agaró.
The beach faces east-southeast and is about 665 m long, with a dune belt roughly 9 m wide and 160 m long separating its western and eastern sections. The Racó de s'Agaró, about 70 m at the eastern end, belongs to the municipality of Castell d'Aro, Platja d'Aro i s'Agaró. Access is adapted for people with reduced mobility, and the water is tested weekly during the bathing season.
About 150 metres from the beach huts on the sand lie the remains of a wooden ship that sank in the 1930s; the wreck is now colonised by marine flora and fauna. Walkers can also feel hard platforms underfoot, fossil remnants of an older shoreline from when the sea level stood lower.
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