{"id":3707,"date":"2013-07-04T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarragonaexperience.com\/2013\/07\/04\/a-blue-and-shiny-sea\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:54:21","slug":"a-blue-and-shiny-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarragonaexperience.com\/en\/2013\/07\/04\/a-blue-and-shiny-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"A blue and shiny sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Punta<\/a><\/p>\n

Foreigners who arrive to Tarragona<\/strong> for the first time, and suddenly discover the sea, at the top of the \u2018Rambla\u2019, don\u2019t ever let it go: they walk up the \u2018Sant Antoni\u2019 walkway, up to the \u2018Cam\u00ed de la Cuixa\u2019, or down the \u2018Baixada de Toro\u2019, and into the seaport and \u2018Serrallo\u2019\u2026 One can get the best possible view of the sea while standing at the \u2018Balc\u00f3 del Mediterrani\u2019, I reckon. Resting on the baranda, our sight is taken very far, over the old quarry, the railroad tracks and the promenade, way over the shore and the waves birth, thanks to the wide non-urban space between the beach and us. The Roman Amphitheatre and the tracks have preserved the beachfront land from private uses, allowing us to keep our shared optimistic perspectives. <\/p>\n

This is why it is so important for coastline protective laws to care about the will of the population\u2019s wide majority (those who live far from the sea), rather than the legal expectations a few private users from the seafront might prefer. In my opinion, it is a shame that the Law 2\/2013, May 29, the \u2018Law of littoral protection and sustainable use<\/em>\u2019, has betrayed its name, and decreased the width of the area under protection, since such measure will not allow new urban agglomerations built on other peninsular coastline areas matching the symbiosis achieved in Tarragona<\/strong>, the city and nature. <\/p>\n

There is no doubt that even here there are loads of things to be improved, because \u2018Miracle\u2019 and \u2018Arrabassada\u2019 beaches, both crowded and neat, are disrupted by some other lonely and forgotten cliffs. Indeed, it is not very common for cleanness supporters to venture going to the \u2018Cova del Gos\u2019, despite the spot\u2019s beauty. Neither do tourists, of course. For too many years, accessing the cliffs at the \u2018Punta del Miracle\u2019 has been let down by some trash bins installed by some illegally built restaurants, unpacked litter of unknown origin, or unhealthy runoffs thrown from some properties by the round path.<\/p>\n

Some cities have managed taming those non-accessible areas near the sea by ordering sculptures to well-known artists and then placing them on a very specific spot, right on top of the rocks. I am not only thinking here about Donosti<\/strong>, with the installation of the \u2018Peine del Viento<\/strong>\u2019 by Eduardo Chillida<\/a><\/strong>, at the Cantabrian<\/strong>, but also about some nearby villages which have exposed beautiful sculptures to the Mediterranean<\/strong> breezes. With such interventions, councils are putting art at people\u2019s disposal, while improving the monument\u2019s access following an environmentally friendly process, and creating a flow of strollers along the coastline, both tourists and locals, which helps enlarging the city and merging it with nature. <\/p>\n

Tarragona: bona terra,
\nTarragona: bona gent.
\nI un mar blau I resplendent
\na la dreta i a l\u2019esquerra<\/em>\t<\/p>\n

Tarragona: good land,
\nTarragona: good people.
\nAnd a blue and shiny sea
\nto the right and to the left.<\/p>\n

Text and photos: Isabel Baixeras<\/a><\/strong>
\nTranslate: Artur Santos<\/a><\/strong> (@artur_1983<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foreigners who arrive to Tarragona for the first time, and suddenly discover the sea, at the top of the \u2018Rambla\u2019, don\u2019t ever let it go: they walk up the \u2018Sant Antoni\u2019 walkway, up to the \u2018Cam\u00ed de la Cuixa\u2019, or down the \u2018Baixada de Toro\u2019, and into the seaport and \u2018Serrallo\u2019\u2026 One can get the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isabel-baixeras-delclos-3","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nA blue and shiny sea - Tarragona Experience<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Foreigners who arrive to Tarragona for the first time, and suddenly discover the sea, at the top of the \u2018Rambla\u2019, don\u2019t ever let it go: 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