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Wales Outshines Greece And Sardinia For Beaches As Swansea's Rhossili Bay Rated Third Best In Europe

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Wales outshines Greece and Sardinia for beaches as Swansea's Rhossili Bay rated third best in Europe

UK's top destination is three-mile stretch of Gower Peninsula white sand

Devon's Woolacombe Beach and Cornwall's Porthminster also praised

Top in Europe was Italy's Rabbit Beach and Spain's Playa de las Catedrales

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Published: 02:04 BST, 21 February 2013 | Updated: 11:12 BST, 21 February 2013









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Forget the sun-kissed sands of Sardinia, Majorca or Greece - for the best beach experience, you're better off travelling to Wales.

That's according to a poll of tourists which placed Swansea's Rhossili Bay at number three on a list of Europe's best beaches. The three-mile stretch of white sand on the Gower Peninsula, was the UK's top destination.

Other British resorts on the survey by TripAdvisor were Woolacombe Beach in Devon, which was fifth, with Cornwall's Porthminster Beach at St Ives in ninth place.

Beautiful landscape: Councillor David Phillips, leader of the City and County of Swansea said he was 'delighted, but not surprised' that Rhossili Bay has been acknowledged as the third best beach in Europe



Spectacular: The three-mile beach is overlooked by the National Trust's most popular holiday cottage, the Old Rectory, and the remains of a 1887 shipwreck can be seen on the beach at low tide





Superb views: The three-mile stretch on the Gower Peninsula, was the UK's top destination. From the highest point on the Peninsula, ramblers can see across the sea to West Wales and the north Devon coast




On the list of Britain's best beaches, Longsands Beach at Newcastle upon Tyne was fourth, while in fifth place was Hengistbury Head in Bournemouth.


WHY SHOULD YOU VISIT RHOSSILI?

The beach is overlooked by the National Trust's most popular holiday cottage, the Old Rectory, and the remains of a 1887 shipwreck can be seen on the beach at low tide.

From the highest point on the Gower Peninsula on Rhossili Down, ramblers can see across the sea to West Wales and the north Devon coast.

A number of rare insects, plants and birds and can be seen, such as the black bog ant, yellow whitlow grass and choughs. The area has been shaped by farming since the Stone Age and Iron Age forts can also be found on the coast.


Dorset had two more beaches in the UK top ten - Weymouth, in seventh place, and Sandbanks in Poole any apart hotel in dalyan for faimilies eighth. Making up the rest of the list are Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall - sixth - with Filey Beach in Yorkshire and St Brelade's Bay Beach in Jersey at nine and ten.





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The top European beach was Rabbit Beach at Lampedusa in Sicily, with Playa de las Catedrales in Rabadeo in Galicia, Spain, in second place.

Sicily's Rabbit Beach was also the top world destination, with Caribbean beach Grace Bay at Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos second.



Tourist hotspot: Rhossili Bay is located near Swansea in Wales, and is clearly highly-rated by beach lovers



Second place: A stretch of beach at Playa de las Catedrales in Rabadeo, Spain, was voted Europe's second best in the TripAdvisor survey





Highest rated: The top European beach was Rabbit Beach at Lampedusa in Sicily, which also came first in the world



Blue: Popular beaches - such as Mirtos Beach, Kefalonia - were overlooked in favour of the Welsh beauty spot





Waves: Making up the rest of the top 10 British list was Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall (pictured)





In the South: Dorset had three beaches in the UK top ten - Hengistbury Head in Bournemouth, Weymouth, and Sandbanks in Poole (pictured)

Whitehaven Beach in Queensland, Australia, was third.

'We are delighted, but not surprised, that Rhossili Bay has been acknowledged. We hope that many more visitors continue to enjoy its outstanding natural beauty'

Swansea Councillor David Phillips

Councillor David Phillips, leader of the City and County of Swansea said: ‘We are delighted, but not surprised, that Rhossili Bay has been acknowledged.

‘We hope that many more visitors continue to enjoy its outstanding natural beauty.'

A TripAdvisor spokesman said: ‘These awards recognise the best beaches in the UK and beyond, according to those that really matter - travellers that have visited these beaches and given them the highest levels of praise.

'Huge congratulations to Swansea's Rhossili Bay for beating many of the most exotic beaches across the globe.'



TOP 10 BRITISH BEACHES



Rhossili Bay, Rhossili, Swansea

Woolacombe Beach, Woolacombe, Devon

Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall

Longsands Beach, Tynemouth

Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth, Dorset

Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall

Weymouth Beach, Weymouth, Dorset

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

Filey Beach, Filey, Yorkshire

St Brelade's Bay Beach, Jersey



TOP 10 EUROPEAN BEACHES



Rabbit Beach, Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy

Playa de las Catedrales, Ribadeo, Spain

RHOSSILI BAY, SWANSEA, WALES

Playa de ses Illetes, Majorca, Spain

WOOLACOMBE BEACH, DEVON

Elafonissi Beach, Crete, Greece

Iztuzu Beach, Dalyan, Turkey

La Pelosa Beach, Stintino, Sardinia, Italy

PORTHMINSTER BEACH, CORNWALL

St Pauls Bay, Lindos, Rhodes, Greece









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