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A seaside resort is a city, town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast.Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of an official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements such as in the German Seebad.
The following articles describe some coastal landforms: Coastal landforms. The feature shown here as a bay would, in certain (mainly southern) parts of Britain, be called a cove. That between the cuspate foreland and the tombolo is a British bay.
The development of the beach as a popular leisure resort from the mid-19th century was the first manifestation of what is now the global tourist industry. The first seaside resorts were opened in the 18th century for the aristocracy, who began to frequent the seaside as well as the then fashionable spa towns, for recreation and health. [9]
A seaside is the marine coast of a sea. Seaside may also refer to: Places. Canada. Seaside Park, British Columbia, also known as Seaside;
Southward view from Ecola State Park, Northern Oregon Coast Map of the Oregon Coast. The Oregon Coast is a coastal region of the U.S. state of Oregon.It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to its west and the Oregon Coast Range to the east, and stretches approximately 362 miles (583 km) from the California state border in the south to the Columbia River in the north.
Beachgoers c. 1910. Beachgoing or beach tourism is the cultural phenomenon of travelling to an ocean beach for leisure or vacation.. The practice developed from medically-prescribed sea-bathing by British physicians in the 17th and 18th centuries and spread throughout Europe and European colonies.
Below is a list of seaside resorts in the United Kingdom. Shoreham by Sea A. Aberdyfi; Abergele; Abersoch; Aberystwyth; Appledore, Torridge, Devon ...
Nuevo Portil beach, Huelva. The Costa de la Luz has a history that dates back to the twelfth century BCE. Cultural attractions include Baelo Claudia, the well-preserved ruins of a small Roman city; Cape Trafalgar, where, in 1805, in sight of this promontory, the English admiral, Horatio Nelson, defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet; and La Rábida Monastery.