- Spain is the country with the most nudist beaches in the world, and not surprisingly a large number of Spaniards have visited one. A recent poll by MuchoViaje.com revealed that 30 percent of Spanish women regularly visit nude beaches, while 42 percent have been to one at some point. Of the remaining 58 percent, 22 percent of them expressed a desire to visit a nude beach soon, while 45 percent of all women polled said that they would never consider going. In sharp contrast, only 29 percent of men surveyed said they would never go to a nudist beach.
- Diego Maradona, football (soccer) legend and manager of the Argentinean team at the upcoming World Cup, has said that he’ll run naked around the base of Buenos Aires’ famous obelisk should his team win. Many others have pledged they’ll join him in this endeavor!
- The first nudist hotel to open in a predominantly Muslim country is now closed after barely a month in operation. The hotel, located in increasingly conservative Turkey, was forced to shut its doors to undergo improvements ordered by municipal inspectors. Despite obeying the law, the owner doubts he’ll be allowed to reopen and plans to relocate to either Cyprus or Croatia as a worst case scenario. Only foreigners are permitted to stay at the hotel, as Turks are prohibited from entering.
- Al Natural is a stage play in Spanish about naturism where all actors are nude during the entire performance. The play by Venezuelan Jose Vicente Diez Rojas, had its premiere in Caracas in November of last year. A version of the show is currently running in Bogota, Colombia, where it opened May 28th.
- A Canadian nudist has been ordered to cover up in his own home! The 63 year old gent had thought that it was well within his rights to be nude anywhere on his property in Repentigny, Quebec, but neighbors thought otherwise and called the police. A county judge ordered him to not be nude in or out of his home and handed him a two year suspended sentence.
- Meanwhile, notch one for nudists in Switzerland, where a man regularly hiked on mountain trails near the town of Herisau in his simplest attire, that is until he crossed the path of a woman who placed a complaint with local authorities, who fined him 200 Swiss Francs. The nudist refused to pay and brought the matter to a higher court, where the judge handling the case vindicated the nudist, saying he did nothing wrong, and ordered the municipality must pay his court costs.
- In Peru, Alex Gonzales Castillo, a candidate for the mayoralty of Lima for the Humanist party, has included the creation of nudist parks in the city as part of his platform.
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Spanish women seem to have embraced naturism BIG TIME! My husband & I regularly go to Hendaye on the French/Spanish border on the western seaboard & the naturist beach there is populated more by spaniards than french! The fact that there are no nice beaches on the spanish side of the border for over 50 miles may have something to do with it.
I would argue that France has more naturist beach space than Spain, practically the entire stretch of coast from Hendaye up to the northern end of the Venday region is nude these days, not to mention the several naturist villages/resorts along this coast!
There are many Naturist beaches in Spain and Naturist Campings. Our favourite is Camping Naturista at El Portus which is about 10 miles south of Cartagena city in the region of Murcia, southeastern Spain.
This is very much a family site where females feel really safe and many Spanish ladies come here to sunbathe on the beach on their own or with female friends. This is, without doubt, the most Natural Naturist place.
Why do the Americans insist on calling it “Nudism”? Naturism is the obvious name as it is so Natural to be naked when the weather is conducive. Remember, we only took to wearing clothes when we had to move away from our original habitats.
The fact that Spain has consulted the people on a new constitution has helped. The rest of Europe is struggling with old constitutions and legacy laws. This leads to a top down system in the rest of Europe and does not reflect true public opinion. We should all be supporting this action as it will impinge on European law and therefore on member nations – remember in Ireland it is not allowed to have naturist (lifestyle) or nudist (liking being naked) beaches!
Do what you can to support Spain and any other organisations and individuals otherwise as Luis Perez says the authorities will chip away at us and not allow naturism in your own garden or home even.
Spain may have the largest number of beaches of the world? Are you sure? The Netherlands counts for at least 30 or 40 legal nude beaches and that’s not including ‘illegal’ nude beaches. Take into consideration that Spain counts 46,6 million inhabitants and The Netherlands ‘only’ 16,6 mln. So my guess is that you are not pretty well informed here. I believe in fact that The Netherlands has as many nude beaches as France while France (643.427 km^2) is over 15 times larger than The Netherlands (41.528 km^2). No offense however.
Nude Regards! From The Netherlands (and don not say Holland please, cause actually Holland are provinces, Noord (North) & Zuid (South)-Holland, of The Netherlands)
Technically, all beaches in Spain are legally nude, which is a lot of coastline! Practically, however, you might not want to go nude except where it’s the norm. No doubt that the Dutch are very open minded and offers a lot of options for naturists. You’re Dutch and we don’t care to dispute your figures! Suffice to say, both Spain and the Netherlands have a lot of nude beaches, never mind per capita ratios!