List of social nudity places in Europe

List of social nudity places in Europe
Swimmers enter water at Spanish beach.

This is a list of social nudity places in Europe for recreation. Includes free beaches (or clothing-optional beaches or nude beaches) and some resorts.

Contents


All European locations

Austria

Croatia

Lokrum

Denmark

Estonia

Pärnu, Estonia

Estonian naturist beaches are overseen by NGO Estnat. No tickets are necessary.

  • Tallinn, an unofficial, but tolerated naturist beach. Situated about 3 km north-east of the ferry port, at the very northern end of textiler beach.
  • Pärnu, also unofficial but tolerated woman's and men's beach between official beach and Pärnu river.

Finland

  • Helsinki:
    • Pihlajasaari: Has a unisex nudist beach, consisting almost entirely of rocky cliffs, with no sand. Not very suitable for swimming.
    • Seurasaari: Separate nudist beaches for men and women. No unisex nudist area.
  • Pori:
    • Yyteri: A very small part of the main Yyteri beach is designated as a unisex nudist beach. A flat beach covered in sand and much more suitable for swimming than Pihlajasaari.

France

Naturist beach at Port Leucate (Aude),France, which illustrates the mixed clothing habits on leading French beaches
  • Many naturist resorts exist on the Atlantic coast, e.g. CHM-Montalivet, Euronat, La Jenny.
  • Cap d'Agde, Quartier Naturiste (Nudist Quarter): sandy beach, several swimming pools, but also nude shopping, etc. [3], map
  • Île du Levant - Héliopolis, Plage des Grottes
  • Plage de Pampelonne in Ramatuelle near Saint-Tropez
  • Plage du Layet near Cavalière
  • There are beaches on many rivers, some well known, some informal: Céze, Ardeche, Truyère
  • There are resorts in the Alpes, Pyrenees, Cevennes
  • Orient Beach [4] on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin (part of Guadeloupe)
  • Topfreedom is tolerated (and common) on almost all beaches.

Resources

  • Naturisme.fr - Search engine for naturism in France, page in English
  • www.euro-naturisme.com - Search engine for naturism in France and Europe, page in French, English, German

Germany

Naturist beach in Germany.
  • Public nudity is not illegal in Germany but may be regulated by local authorities mostly because of safety and health issues, not morality. Apart from urban areas and public baths (which often offer nude swimming days), nude bathing is common in Germany: unofficial clothing optional areas exist at most lakes and rivers and other sites, such as abandoned sand and rock quarries.
  • Many designated FKK areas exist at the seaside, at lakes and in baths, especially in the former East Germany, where nudism remains more widespread than in the west. Many unregulated clothing optional (FKK) free beaches are available along the Nordsee and Baltic seashores, Rügen and other islands. The attitude is: all beaches are nude beaches until somebody complains.
  • Families especially like to spend their leisure time in naturist areas; sauna bathing is generally practiced in the nude.
  • Even in cities there are clothing-optional areas, e.g. the riverside parks on the Rhine in Cologne (Köln), Bonn, Düessldorf, the public beach (Strandbad) at Tegeler See in Berlin, Schönfeldwiese in the Englischer Garten in Munich, near the city centre; also, the southern part of Feldmochinger See, in the northwestern suburb, the peninsula in Lake Feringasee in the Northeast and the Flaucher at the river Isar south of the city center of Munich.
  • nacktbaden.de is a very comprehensive and regularly updated German index of nudist areas.
  • Baden-Baden German city located near the French border. This city has many natural mineral springs and numerous clothes free bath houses are located.

Greece

Komos Beach on the south coast of Crete, near Matala
  • Naturism is practised widely in the Greek Islands although, strictly speaking, legal only in a relatively few designated locations but almost on all islands there are unofficial nudist beaches.
  • Crete - the beach of Glyka Nera near Loutro
  • Crete - Plakias - south-eastern part of the beach
  • Crete - - North from Matala, a very long nude beach - south part of the beach used by clothed people
  • Crete - Sougia - eastern part of the beach
  • Santorini - Vlychada beach - southern part of the beach
  • Northern Sporades - Skopelos island - Velanio
  • Topfree is tolerated on almost all beaches.[citation needed]

Hungary

The most significant places:

Other, officially naturist places:

Smaller, unofficial ones: Egerszalók, Dunaszekcső, Gárdony, Omszki-tó, Lupa-tavak (Budakalász), Debreceni-tó (Nyékládháza), Mindszent, Szolnok etc.

Italy

Ireland

There are several locations in Ireland for nude recreation. Please see: http://www.irishnaturism.org/imagemap.php, for details.

Latvia

Latvian naturist beaches are overseen by the `Latvian Naturist Association`.

  • Vecāķi official naturist beach. The biggest of Latvia's naturist beaches, situated a little way north of Vecāķi village. To get there from Riga take the Riga-Saulkrasti railway line and get off at Vecāķi or bus Nr200&204.
  • Inčupe naturist beach. A medium sized beach, situated near the Saulkrasti railway line on the southern bank of the Inčupe river about 50 km from Riga.
  • Lielupe beach. A small, unofficial naturist beach, on the left bank of the Lielupe river delta.
  • Ventspils city has an official naturist beach.
  • Liepāja unofficial naturist beach. Also quite small, situated about 3 km south of Liepaja.

Lithuania

Naturist beaches in Lithuania are overseen by local communities.

  • Palanga beach - A small, unofficial naturist beach, about 30 km from the Latvian border. Naturists only use this place at certain hours of the day.
  • Klaipeda naturist beach - A large official naturist beach. Access by ferry going to Delfinarium (Sea Museum) situated on the Curonian Spit.
  • Nida naturist beach - A very large, official naturist beach. Located on the north shore of the Curonian Spit, just a few kilometers east of the border of Russian Kaliningrad enclave.

Montenegro

  • Ada Bojana, the biggest nudist beach in the country
  • Jaz, the southernmost part of the beach used to be declared nudist but was made regular in 2007
  • Ratac, is outside Bar in the direction of Budva
  • Njivice, a village on the south-western shore of the Bay of Hecrg Novi (Boka Kotorska bay) the nudist beach is located on Hotel Riviers's beach
  • Camp Full Monte, A clothing optional, off-grid, eco campsite close the Montenegro/Croatia border crossing, run by an English couple.

Netherlands

  • Almere, Zilverstrand
  • Amsterdam, Amsterdamse Bos, Zonneweide (from April 1 through September 30)
  • Bussloo, longest nude beach in the Netherlands
  • Bloemendaal aan Zee, nude beach at the north part of the beach
  • Callantsoog, sandy beach 1.5 km to the south - the oldest official nude beach in the country, dating from 1973
  • Delft, Grote Plas, northeast side (map)
  • Scheveningen, The Hague, sandy beach 1 km to the north
  • The Hague, Zuiderstrand, approx. 300 m of sandy beach
  • Kijkduin, The Hague, 2 beaches
  • IJmuiden, nude beach at the south part of the beach
  • Zandvoort, sandy beach 2 km to the south
  • for more, see [12]; beach locations are defined by km-pole numbers, indicated on wooden poles every 250 m. See [13] map with beach from Den Helder to Hoek van Holland, showing these numbers and also public transport info.
Municipalities with a beach (usually including quiet parts) tend to have a nudist beach; even if the municipality does not like it, it designates a quiet part as such in order to be able to forbid nudity on the rest of the beach.
In the Netherlands tanning top free is legal on almost all beaches.[citation needed]

Norway

The beach at Huk.

The Scandinavian Naturist Portal This Naturist Portal covers naturism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and they have a list of nude beaches along with a Google Earth KZM file.

Portugal

Romania

Nudist beaches at Neptun, Costineşti, 2 Mai and Vama Veche sea resorts, on the Black Sea.

Topfree is tolerated on all beaches[citation needed].

Russia

  • St. Petersburg [1]
  • Divnomorskoe
  • Loo (Sochi)
  • Serebryanyi Bor (Moscow)

Serbia

Belgrade, Ada Ciganlija nudist part

Slovakia

Spain

Public nudity is not illegal in Spain

Women sunbathing in monokinis/topfree on a beach in Barcelona, Spain.

Sweden

Turkey

  • Hotel Adaburnu Gölmar: Naturist hotel/resort in southwestern Turkey where Aegean and Mediterranean seas meet.

Ukraine

Beach in Koktebel.

United Kingdom

England:

Wales:

Scotland:

  • Topless tolerated on most beaches.

See also

Portal-puzzle.svg Nudity portal

Places in Europe Map for nudists

References

  1. ^ http://dunesspb.byethost7.com/dunes_e.htm

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