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Note that Monday isn’t the best day to come, as the three museums and many
restaurants are closed.
The Town
There are clean sand
beaches
either side of the old-town headland – though
these become extremely crowded in high season. For more space it’s best to
keep walking west along the promenade, passing a series of eight interlinked
beaches that runs a couple of kilometres down the coast as far as the
Hotel
Terramar
.There are breakwaters, beach bars, restaurants, showers and watersports
facilities along the way, with the more notorious gay nudist beaches found at
the far end – for these, keep on past
L’Antlantida
disco to the
Sun Beach Garden
(10min) and the small coves beyond.
Scores of handsome restored
mansions
in town were built in the nineteenth
century by successful local merchants (known as “Americanos”) who returned
from Cuba and Puerto Rico. A walk along the seafront promenade reveals the
best of them, adorned with wrought-iron balconies, stained-glass windows and
ceramic decoration. The knoll overlooking the town beaches and marina is
topped by the landmark Baroque
parish church
dedicated to Sant Bartolomeu,
whose annual festival is celebrated in town in the last week of August. Behind, in
the narrow streets of the old town, you’ll find a series of late-medieval white-
washed mansions as well as the brick
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