Those who frequent the beaches of the Algarve have several reasons to smile. The sand is thin, the waters are hot and the climate is mild. What is certain is that these are the conditions necessary to make bathers smile and CV Villas now presents the list of the happiest beaches in the world. The first place in the table went to the beach of Sitges, located around Barcelona, in Spain, but the silver medal went to a well -known Algarvia beach.
Firstly, it should be noted that to ranking the happiest beaches in the world, CV Villas used AWS facial recognition software to analyze thousands of Instagram photographs of over 100 beaches and those that were the scene of more smiles were considered happier.
After the analysis, it was concluded that Praia da Fágésia, in Albufeira, is the second happiest in the world. In 2024 it was considered the best beach in the world and now it is time to be elected by the high number of smiles that causes bathers. The travel editor of, Grace Beard, highlights the great extension of this sand and adds that “if Mars had a beach, it would be similar to Plantesia beach at sunset.”
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Note that the neighboring country dominates the happiest beaches podium in the world, as third place also belongs to a Spanish sand. We talk about Port de Soller beach, located in Palma de Mallorca. Although the beach is now in the ‘mouths of the world’ with this title, what is certain is that an open letter written by seven environmental organizations asks the tourists to ‘not come’ to the island.
There are two more algarve beaches at the top10 of the happiest in the world and they are Dona Ana, in Lagos, and Praia do Vale de Centeanes, in Carvoeiro. They were respectively in the seventh and eighth places of the table.
How to get to Plantea Beach?
If you want to visit this sand in Albufeira, which is one of the happiest in the world, be aware that there is a road access road through the village of the Açotias. There is a parking lot about 300 meters from Areal and there is another park in Alfamar, 250 meters from the beach.
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