Playa de Santa Bárbara is a beach in the municipality of

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, in the

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, Spain, located to the north of

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. It has a length of about and average width of about . It is a busy beach promenade bounded by the city limits and south to the border with Gibraltar with

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runway to the east and on the north by the Playa de Levante. In its vicinity are the remains of the Fort of Santa Barbara, an old fortification that participated in the

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in 1779. It has all the basic services required of an urban beach, daily waste collection season, toilets, showers and disabled access and presence of police and local rescue equipment.

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La Línea de la Concepción Beaches of Andalusia {{Andalusia-geo-stub