El Fonoll

El Fonoll is not your typical naturist resort or campsite. It is an ancient village, hundreds of years old, abandoned after the Spanish civil war. In 1995, Emili Vives, the founder, bought it and the forest surrounding it (150 ha) and started rebuilding the crumbling houses. Now there are more than 20 houses and rooms, a campsite and 20 km of paths under the trees that you can discover without clothes.

El Fonoll

El Fonoll is not your typical naturist resort or campsite. It is an ancient village, hundreds of years old, abandoned after the Spanish ci...

by Nat Biss

in Catalonia , EN , hotels , Tarragona

El Viejo Rey (es)

Alguien dijo una vez que El Viejo Rey era una playa para "surfistas y nudistas exigentes". Si con exigentes quería decir que les gustan las playas vírgenes, tranquilas pero accesibles, entonces es totalmente cierto.

Visitada por última vez: octubre 2015

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El Viejo Rey (es)

Alguien dijo una vez que El Viejo Rey era una playa para "surfistas y nudistas exigentes". Si con  exigentes quería decir que le...

by Nat Biss

in Canarias , ES , España , Fuerteventura (es) , playas , zzESzz

La Mar Bella

Munich, Berlin, Paris... there is an increasing number of European cities with public nudist areas in their parks. But how many of them have a real nude beach in the city centre? Perhaps only Barcelona.
La Mar Bella is a section of the 5 km long beaches created in the sea front as part of the renovation of the city for the Olympic Games in 1992. This is probably neither the most beautiful nor the most secluded nude beach you will ever be, but the amazing location can compensate it.

Last visited: may 2019

La Mar Bella

Munich, Berlin, Paris... there is an increasing number of European cities with public nudist areas in their parks. But how many of them hav...

by Nat Biss

in Barcelona , beaches , Catalonia , EN

Finca Johanna (es)

Desde su ubicación en el interior de Málaga, a unos pocos kilómetros de las playas, pero lo suficientemente lejos para aislarse del bullicio de la costa, Finca Johanna es el lugar perfecto tanto para pasar unos días de completo relax como para usarla de base para explorar la zona.

Finca Johanna (es)

Desde su ubicación en el interior de Málaga, a unos pocos kilómetros de las playas, pero lo suficientemente lejos para aislarse del bullici...

by Nat Biss

in Andalucía , ES , España , hoteles , Málaga , zzESzz

Israel

Israel is located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon, Syria, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories and Egypt to the southwest. 

Despite its small size (20,770 km²), Israel is home to a variety of geographic features, from the Negev desert in the south to inland fertile valleys, mountain ranges, and the coastal plain on the shores of the Mediterranean. East of the central highlands lies the Jordan Rift Valley and the Dead Sea, which has the lowest elevation on Earth at aproximately 430 m blow sea level.

Israel coastline has a total length of 273 km, mainly on the Mediterranean sea, but also a short coast (10 km) on the Red Sea. Apart from that, the west shore of the Dead Sea offers 30 km more, although this figure is quite imprecise due to the continuous drop of water level. 

Israel has a Mediterranean climate with long, hot, rainless summers and relatively short, cool, rainy winters. The climate conditions are highly variable within the state and modified locally by altitude, latitude, and the proximity to the Mediterranean. January is the coldest month with average temperatures ranging from 6 to 15 °C, and July and August are the hottest months at 22 to 33 °C on average across the country. In the desert summer daytime temperatures can reach 45 °C

Photo: Mario Geiger

Israel

Israel is located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Leban...

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in Asia , EN , featured , Israel , maps

Montenegro

A sovereign state only since 2006 (in spite of its long history), Montenegro (meaning "Black Mountain") is a small, mountainous country in south-west Balkans in Southeastern Europe. Montenegro borders Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and the Adriatic Sea. While being a small country at 13,812 km², it is very diverse regarding the terrain configuration.

Montenegro has over 120 beaches with a total length of 73 km out of the 293 km of its coastline on the Adriatic Sea. There are varying beach styles from sand to pebbles of differing lengths. The main feature in the Montenegrin coast is Bay of Kotor, a fjord-like gulf, which is in fact a submerged river canyon

Montenegro has a Mediterranean climate on the coast, with alpine conditions in the mountains. The average summer coastal temperature is 27°C, while in the mountains summer night time temperatures drop as low as 12°C. In the winter weather remains mild in the coast. Inland, however, there is substantial snowfall in the mountains.

Photo: Nikola Nešović

Montenegro

A sovereign state only since 2006 (in spite of its long history), Montenegro (meaning "Black Mountain") is a small, mountainous c...

by Nat Biss

in countries , Europe , featured , maps , Montenegro

Mexico

Mexico is a country between the U.S. and Central America. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres, it's the fifth largest country in the Americas, and it has the 13th longest coastline in the world, with 9,330 km divided between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
The country has one of the world's most diverse weather systems. South of the twenty-fourth parallel, temperatures are fairly constant year round (24 to 28ºC) and vary solely as a function of elevation. Areas north of that line are hot and humid during the summer, but have more moderate conditions during the winter. Mexico lies within the hurricane belt, and all regions of both coasts are susceptible to these storms from June through November.
Mexico has traditionally been among the most visited countries in the world. Apart from beaches, the main atractions includes a diverse landscape of mountains, deserts and jungles, ancient pre-Hispanic archeological complexes scattered throughout the country, or the Spanish colonial-era towns.

Zipolite (photo: Rosaly Graterol)

Mexico

Mexico is a country between the U.S. and Central America. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres, it's the fifth largest country i...

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in countries , EN , featured , map , maps , Mexico

Gymnos

Greece is one of the main tourist destinations in the world, combining a rich cultural heritage with uncountable beaches in the Eastern Mediterranean. Even if few of them are officially sanctioned, there is a large number of places where nude sunbathing is possible. Gymnos is an Android app that helps you find them.

Thiss app is really simple, it just shows a map of Greece with the position of the nude beaches. You can navigate through the map to select one of them, and then Gymnos redirects you to the Google Maps app. No additional information is shown.

The benefit of Gymnos is, then, to list together all the nude beaches in Greece, and so to evaluate it we can check how exhaustive that list is.

We have compared the number of beaches in this app and in three well known sites which can be taken as a reference: NakedPlaces, Cap'n Barefoot and NudistCompass.

Let's see a few examples:

	Gymnos	NakedPlaces	Cap'nBarefoot	NudistCompass
Corfu	9	9	19	13
Chania (Crete)	15	22	28	23
Athens	4	4	11	14

In this sample we can see that Gymnos includes 80% of the beaches in NakedPlaces, but only 48% of those in Cap'n Barefoot. That is normal, since the later is the bible of naturism in Greece and its detailed information also includes beaches where nudism is no longer possible or only in certain periods of the year.

The last column let us compare Gymnos with Nudist Compass, another app to find nude places around the world. In this comparison Gymnos is clearly below, but we have to take into account that Nudist Compass, as we have already explained in this post, allows users to add new beaches, so those results may not be verified.

We can see that Gymnos does not provide anything really new if we already know our destination, but it does allow us to find the nudist beaches that exist in any area of Greece very quickly. And above all, it simplifies the task to look for the route towards them.

Info

Name: Gymnos
Author: Bonaventura Novellino
Current version: 1.0
e-mail: bonaventuranovellino@gmail.com
Price: Free

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Gymnos

Greece is one of the main tourist destinations in the world, combining a rich cultural heritage with uncountable beaches in the Eastern Med...

by Nat Biss

in app , EN , other , zzOTHERzz

Roca Plana / Becs

Cala de Roca Plana, or Becs, is a beautiful cove (or better, a series of tiny coves) in a natural environment near Tarragona. An exception in an area where most beaches have experienced a great tourist development.

Last visited: May 2017

Roca Plana / Becs

Cala de Roca Plana, or Becs, is a beautiful cove (or better, a series of tiny coves) in a natural environment near Tarragona. An exception ...

by Nat Biss

in beaches , Catalonia , EN , Tarragona

Resort Naturista Grottamiranda

In the heart of Puglia, southern Italy, set between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas, the new Grottamiranda Naturist Resort is a charming family retreat providing relaxation sport and culture. 

Created by Martine and Pierre, French Naturists with a passion for Italy, it is the very first Italian Naturist resort with no camping facilities and sets out to meet guests' expectations for an idyllic Naturist holiday.

Resort Naturista Grottamiranda

In the heart of Puglia, southern Italy, set between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas, the new  Grottamiranda Naturist Resort  is a charmin...

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in Apulia , EN , featured , hotels , Italy