On Friday 26th, the mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), received the five Blue Flags that will fly at as many of the municipality’s beaches during 2026 and 2027, during a ceremony held at the headquarters of the public enterprise Tourism and Planning Costa del Sol. These awards are granted by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), following a proposal by the Association for Environmental and Consumer Education (Adeac).

La Luna-Royal Beach, Riviera, El Bombo, El Chaparral and La Cala are the five beaches in Mijas where these flags will fly, which recognise four key areas internationally: excellent water quality, environmental education, environmental management (cleanliness, waste), and safety and services (such as lifeguarding and access).

The mayoress, accompanied by the councillor for Beaches, Daniel Gómez Teruel (PP), highlighted Mijas’s comprehensive commitment to quality tourism, “which is recognised by these five Blue Flags, but also by the nine ‘Q’ for Quality and nine ‘S’ for Sustainability awards that we collected last week at another event held in Marbella”.

For her part, Gemma del Corral, Director-General for Tourism Promotion and Development at the Regional Government of Andalusia, stated that “we are playing in the top league when it comes to beaches. Málaga is the province with the most Blue Flags in the whole of Andalusia, and that benefits the entire autonomous community. We are a benchmark destination for sun and beach tourism, and this is largely down to the work carried out 365 days a year by the municipalities along the Málaga coast, which go the extra mile to achieve maximum quality and excellence”.

 

Quality awards

Mijas thus completes its quality awards with the Blue Trail (which applies to the Coastal Path, received last February) and the Blue Centre, also presented on Friday 26th, which highlights El Torreón as an interpretation centre for the watchtowers of the Mijas coastline, comprising three exhibition spaces that cultivate and explain the history and ethnography of the municipality’s coast. “Mijas is quality, and this is evident in multiple aspects, also with all these awards we are collecting today”, the mayoress stressed at the presentation ceremony.

Furthermore, the 14-kilometre Mijas coastline also boasts universal accessibility at nine of its beaches (La Luna-Royal Beach, Alhamar, Calahonda, Riviera, El Bombo, La Cala, La Dorada, El Chaparral and El Charcón), the very same ones that hold the Q for Quality and S for Sustainability distinctions.

 

For his part, Gómez Teruel stated that “in Mijas, work is carried out on the beaches 365 days a year to be able to reap the rewards of this effort and hard work now with these Blue Flags. We are one of the municipalities with the most certifications, with nine ‘Q’ for Quality, five Blue Flags, nine Sustainability flags, the Blue Trail and the Blue Centre. And to all this, we can add the ‘Soludable’ recognition, which distinguishes beaches that integrate real and verifiable measures for photoprotection, public health and sustainability”.

Regarding the safety section, which is also recognised by the Blue Flags, it is worth noting that the Mijas Town Hall maintains a rescue and lifesaving service consisting of 62 lifeguards who monitor the entire coastline, making it the best-staffed service in the whole of Andalusia, according to the local council. The investment in this lifeguarding contract is 1.56 million euros, with a validity of two years and the possibility of a two-year extension.

 

Public Address System

In addition to the human team, one of the main new features of this service is the installation of a public address (PA) system to manage any emergency or alarm through pre-recorded messages in different languages. It is already operational across the municipality’s 16 beaches.

As for the vehicles making up the deployment, these consist of an ambulance, three jet skis (based at La Luna, La Cala and El Charcón), two bicycles for surveillance from the Coastal Path, a rescue buggy and a rescue drone.

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