Playa de Meloneras, Urban beach in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain
Playa de Meloneras is a beach on the south coast of Gran Canaria, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, about 1,800 km southwest of Madrid. Its shoreline mixes golden sand with pebbles, and the beach sits beside the Meloneras resort area, with restaurants, shops and hotels a short walk away.
Playa de Meloneras lies on the south-west coast of Gran Canaria, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, about 1,800 km from Madrid. The beach belongs to the built-up resort area of Meloneras beside Maspalomas, whose seafront promenade and hotels were laid out from the 1990s onward. The sources record no earlier fishing settlement on this spot.
Meloneras grew as a resort area of San Bartolomé de Tirajana in the 1990s, when hotels, the promenade and the shopping centre were built along this stretch of Gran Canaria's southern coast. The beach takes its name from the Meloneras locality, and its seafront now links the lighthouse at Maspalomas with the marina and shopping zone.
Sun loungers, showers, restrooms, and a first-aid station are available on the beach for visitor use. Everything you need—food, drinks, rentals—is within easy walking distance along the promenade.
The beach sits on Gran Canaria's southern shore, in the Las Palmas province of the Canary Islands, roughly 1,800 km southwest of Madrid. It is one of the island's urban beaches, beside the Meloneras resort area of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
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