8 Aug, 2018 @ 12:14
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Costa del Sol beach named in ‘top 10 most Instagrammed beaches’ in Spain

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POPULAR: Playa de La Malagueta
POPULAR: Playa de La Malagueta

A COSTA del Sol beach is one of the most Instagrammed in Spain. 

It comes after search engine Holidu analysed more than 200 million instances of Instagram users using the hashtags #playa and #beach, to find out which were the most popular.

Playa de La Malagueta, in Malaga, was the fifth most Instagrammed, with 76,653 mentions.

CADIZ: Playa de los Canos de Meca

Just a 10-minute walk from the centre of the provincial capital, the beach has long been a hit with tourists and locals.

It is the only Costa del Sol playa to feature in the top 10.

Nearby on the Costa de la Luz, Playa de los Canos de Meca, in Cadiz, rounded off the list with 42,867 mentions.

The most Instagrammed beach in Spain is La Barceloneta, with 708,089 mentions.

TOP DOG: La Barceloneta

It dominates its compatriot rivals, with Playa del Ingles in the Canaries coming in a distant second with 133,305 mentions.

Ibiza’s Playa d’en Bossa rounded out the top three with 97,688 mentions.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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