Guess the Cove — name Jávea's beaches
Ten real one-line clues, each describing a genuine Jávea beach or cove — name it from four real coves. Every clue is drawn from our own beach guides, and each answer links to the full guide.
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Read each clue, tap the cove you think it is, and the answer, a real detail and the source guide appear underneath. Count your ✓ ticks to score yourself — 9–10 Coast connoisseur · 6–8 Beach regular · 3–5 Day-tripper · 0–2 Just off the plane.
1. A pebble amphitheatre of impossibly clear water at the end of a winding pine-forest road — twice voted the best beach in Spain.
It's Cala Granadella. A pebble cove between pine-clad headlands at the end of a winding pine-forest road, with exceptional water clarity for snorkelling.
2. Jávea's only true sandy beach: a gently shelving blue-flag crescent wrapped in a palm-lined promenade, and the town's social heart.
It's Playa del Arenal. Jávea's only large sandy beach — a gently shelving Blue Flag crescent and the town's evening-paseo social centre; the rest of the coast is pebble and rock.
3. The pebble beach right by the harbour where Jávea actually swims twelve months a year, with the best long-lunch logistics in town.
It's La Grava. The port's pebble beach where Jávea swims year-round, harbour behind and showers and walkways laid on.
4. The storied, long-closed cove below the cliffs of Cabo la Nao — the wild beach you admire from the clifftop viewpoint but can't climb down to.
It's Ambolo. The long-closed cove below Cabo la Nao's lighthouse and plunging cliffs — admired from the viewpoint, not descended to.
5. A pocket-sized pair of rocky coves just south of the Arenal, where flat stone slabs stand in for sand and the snorkelling starts a metre from your towel.
It's Cala Blanca. A pocket-sized pair of rocky coves just south of the Arenal, flat stone slabs for sand and snorkelling straight off the rocks — no bars, no sunbeds.
6. A quiet, semi-local walk-in cove below Balcón al Mar on the road toward Cabo de la Nao — pebbles, clear water and nothing much beyond the sea itself.
It's Cala Sardinera. A quiet, semi-local walk-in cove below Balcón al Mar — pebbles and rock, with snorkelling the whole point.
7. One islet offshore, a string of blue-and-white fishermen's huts and some of the clearest snorkelling on the Costa Blanca — Jávea's most photographed corner.
It's Portitxol. The postcard cove of the Portitxol islet and its blue-and-white fishermen's huts — clear snorkelling water, and a beach where people actually live.
8. A mile of open, sand-free rock between the Arenal's sand and Las Rotes' coves, in two informal stretches — one of the easiest wild swims in Jávea to reach.
It's El Muntanyar. Jávea's rocky mile in two stretches, Primer and Segon Muntanyar — open rock, few crowds, and an easy coastal-path wild swim.
9. One of two tiny rock coves tucked by the port that the postcards never found — a walk-in swim with not a sunbed in sight, sharing its name with a dance.
It's Cala Tangó. One of two little rock coves minutes from the port that the postcards never found — walk-in swims with no sunbeds in sight.
10. Cala Tangó's tiny neighbour by the port — another postcard-free, walk-in rock-cove swim, this one named not for a dance but for 'the Pope'.
It's Cala del Pope. The second of Cala Tangó's pair of little rock coves by the port — a walk-in swim with not a sunbed in sight.
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