Vera Playa
Vera Playa is located in the south-east corner
of Spain - at approximately the same latitude
as the most
 northerly parts of Africa.
Its name means "the beach of Vera". Vera, in Spanish, is pronounced with a soft 'v' so that it sounds more like "Bera".
It is named after the small town of Vera, in whose area it lies, and which is about 8 kms inland. The nearest town, however, is Garrucha, about 5 kms to the south, whose harbour is home to an active fishing fleet and which has a significant harbour for bulk freighters used to ship gypsum and other materials from inland quarries. Garrucha is an attractive and growing small town with a wide range of restaurants, shops and other facilities.
A few kilometres to the south of Garrucha is the beautifully located village of
Mojacar on the edge of the Sierra Cabrera mountains. The popularity of Mojacar since the 1960s has spawned a mass of holiday and residential development along the beach area near
Mojacar, though thankfully, as throughout the area, strict planning control has prevented high rise developments.
Vera Playa is on the Costa de Almeria. The beach at Vera Playa runs north-south and the council-designated naturist beach is approximately 1km long and the unofficial or traditional naturist beach extends about another
kilometer (but is now under pressure from new textile developments which front it). The official naturist developments zone runs the length of the naturist beach and is somewhat less in depth at around 0.5 kms deep from the beach.
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