Until next September, the beach library of l’Albir offers residents and visitors the chance to enjoy reading in a privileged environment. Users can consult the national and international press online, in addition to having access to magazines and novels in a dozen languages, such as Dutch, German, Russian, French, Norwegian, English, Italian and Spanish. This year, the City Council of l’Alfàs del Pi has expanded the catalog of children’s and youth literature with fifty novels, comics and well-known manga titles.
The beach library also has laptops, free Wi-Fi and a selection of traditional board games. The opening hours are from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 13:30 and from 17:00 to 20:30.
During the month of July, more than 400 people have used this service, one of the best valued by Albir beach users. In total, 424 users have been recorded, the majority of Spanish nationality, although visitors from Great Britain, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Holland, France or South America, among others, have also been registered.
As for national readers, as in previous years, the presence of residents of l’Alfàs del Pi and region stands out, followed by users who are in the municipality on vacation and who come from different autonomous communities, mostly of the Valencian Community, followed by Madrid, the Basque Country, Castilla León, Navarra and Andalusia.
Cas in previous summers, the children’s workshops that are organized in the afternoons, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., in the beach library are a complete success. One of the star activities of the beach library. They are craft and entertainment workshops for the little ones that are very popular among users of Albir beach. A toy library on the beachfront in a privileged space.
In addition to offering a beach library service, the Racó de l’Albir beach has children’s leisure areas, toilets, footbaths, a bathing point accessible to people with reduced mobility, parking for bicycles, hammock rental service, surveillance and cleaning. A space where water sports can be practiced and which makes available to boats a network of ecological moorings with low impact on the seabed, so that they can anchor without damaging the posidonia oceanica.
L’Alfàs del Pi is the only municipality in the Marina Baixa region recognized by the European Foundation for Environmental Education with the three distinctions that are a symbol of quality, good management and excellence: Blue Flag, Blue Path and Blue Center. These are three quality certificates that position l’Alfàs del Pi among the tourist destinations in Spain that are most respectful of the environment, its conservation and its dissemination.
Racó de l’Albir beach is among the exclusive 10 beaches in all of Spain that have obtained the Blue Flag continuously since 1987. To this badge must be added the Blue Path for the Route to the Lighthouse and another five blue badges for five environmental interpretation centers in the municipality, which are the Faro de l’Albir, Los Carrascos, the old quarry of Serra Gelada, Los Carabineros and the Villa Romana de l’Albir Open Air Museum. It so happens that of the 13 distinguished blue centers throughout the province of Alicante, 5 are in l’Alfàs del Pi.
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