Cala Blanca

Cala Blanca, also known as La Caleta, closes off the Segon Muntanyar stretch of Jávea with around 80 metres of gravel and rock. Its name comes from the whitish colour of the rock that forms the surrounding cliffs, and it's actually two adjoining coves, Caleta I and Caleta II, joined by a stretch of tosca stone that reaches out to sea like a small natural breakwater.

Calm water

That stone arm shelters the cove from swell and keeps the water calm for most of the year, with a clarity that makes it popular for snorkelling. It's a semi-urban cove with few facilities of its own, reached by car along the Segon Muntanyar seafront to a final pedestrian stretch of around a hundred metres. The bottom, a mix of rock and patches of sand between the stones, keeps the shallows clear enough to see well from the shore, making it as good for a slow swim near the edge as for snorkelling around the rocks at either end of the cove, where small fish tend to gather close to shore.

It sits a short distance from other coves in Jávea's northern stretch, such as Cala Sardinera and Cala del Portitxol, making it easy to combine several coves listed among the area's best beaches on the same walk along the coast. Given its small size and rocky bottom, water shoes help, and it's worth avoiding the middle of the day in high summer, when it fills up faster than coves further from the town centre.