Vejer - El Palmar beach

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Vejer coast: Palmar beach

Vejer de la Frontera has, only 9km from the village a magnificient beach known as “El Palmar Beach”.

On the Costa de la Luz, on an open and long strech of the Atlantic, between the capes of Trafalgar and Roche.

Its fine sand and its transparent waters surrounded by a natural environment make this beach one of the very few unexplioted shores in the area.

This beach offers to the tourist a virtually unknown landscape, ideal for the practice of the water sports, such as sailing, surfing, the wind-surfing, water-skiing, fishing, ect..., all the year around.

It has health-care services including Registered Nurses, Assistant Nurses, Lifeguards, Ambulances, assistance facilities, showers and toilets. It also has Tourist Services such as loudspeakers and a point of tourist information, as well as many hostels, camp sites, restaurants and inns, all of them qualified to attend and satisfy the needs of all of them that go to our coasts.

The beach houses a tower called TORRENUEVA the function of which was the surveillance of the coast line. This sort of towers were widely used along the coasts of Cadiz in the 17th and 18th centuries, because invasion by pirates and other criminals was very common. They communicated with each other by means of smoke signals during tha day and fire signals during the night.

Several streams end in this area, from the inland hills. Tha fauna likely to be found here is the typical of a coastal environment, such as gulls and beach birds, including oystercatchers and many others...

The urbanisation of the area is very scare, althought a new development plan is being carried out.