This Spanish beach hides 270,000 tons of Saharan sand shipped across the Atlantic
Sand from Africa’s Sahara Desert sits beneath your feet on this Spanish beach. In 1973, engineers shipped 270,000 tons of golden sand 100 miles across the Atlantic to transform a black volcanic shore into Playa de Las Teresitas. The result defies geography: Canary Islands sand that originated in Western Sahara, creating Europe’s most improbable beach … Lire plus









