Costa Nostrum

Costa Nostrum We make beaches Sustainable! You enjoy Sustainable beaches!

+ OUR AIM

Our main axis being the three pillars of sustainability (economy, society and environment), we can offer innovative solutions and high-value services to municipalities, regions and individuals, thus decisively contributing to the multifaceted improvement of the coastal zone - beach by turning it into an appealing destination for the citizens.

+ OUR GOALS

We aim to protect the highly s

ensitive ecological environment outside and around the coastal zone by promoting environmental awareness and increasing the appreciation of the citizens and visitors of each beach for the environment. We wish for the Mediterranean beaches to become a core of sustainable financial development for the coastal areas, which can significantly contribute to the economic vitality of the community throughout the year. Another objective of ours is the consolidation of social cohesion, equality and equity, as well as the satisfaction of visitors, the improvement of the services provided inside and around the beach, the preservation and promotion of the local culture and traditional products and, lastly, the maximization of the feeling of security within the beach.

🕯️ Η ομάδα της Costa Nostrum, σας εύχεται Καλό Πάσχα και Καλή Ανάσταση! Με την άνοιξη να ξυπνά τη φύση γύρω μας, ανανεών...
09/04/2026

🕯️ Η ομάδα της Costa Nostrum, σας εύχεται Καλό Πάσχα και Καλή Ανάσταση! Με την άνοιξη να ξυπνά τη φύση γύρω μας, ανανεώνουμε κι εμείς τη δέσμευσή μας για αειφόρες παραλίες και τη διαφύλαξη της φυσικής τους ομορφιάς.

🇮🇹 Frigole Beach: Where Nature and Memory Meetℹ️ “Frigole Beach - Italy”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast...
02/04/2026

🇮🇹 Frigole Beach: Where Nature and Memory Meet

ℹ️ “Frigole Beach - Italy”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project”

📍 Map Here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/6A5nYgFQqvVsTLbg9

Frigole Beach, on the Adriatic coast of Lecce, is not simply a wide sandy beach with shallow waters and an open horizon. It is a coastal landscape where the sea coexists with a distinctive hinterland, as very close to it lies Acquatina di Frigole, a wetland and lagoon system of significant ecological importance. The Municipality of Lecce itself presents Frigole as one of the marinas of Lecce and highlights its close relationship with Acquatina, an area of about 100 hectares with dunes, aquatic vegetation, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and birds that find suitable living conditions there.

What truly makes Frigole stand out, however, is not only its natural setting, but also the depth of its name. The most reliable historical line does not lead to a clearly documented legend, but rather to a very ancient toponym. According to the Ecomuseo delle Bonifiche di Frigole, the earliest form of the name was “Ficula”, while the present form Frigole gradually emerged over the centuries through linguistic and written transformations. The same source notes that the name is already connected to documents from the 11th century, showing that Frigole does not carry a certain folk legend, but a long-standing toponymic memory.

The history of the place continues through agricultural settlements, monastic land relations, and later transformations of the landscape. The Ecomuseum describes the area as a place that repeatedly changed character, especially from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, through large-scale drainage and land reclamation works. In this sense, Frigole is not only a beach; it is also a historical landscape where nature, cultivation, water, and human intervention have all left successive marks on the same space.

For this reason, Frigole can be understood as a landscape of transition. From medieval Ficula to present-day Frigole, from old agricultural memories to a modern coastal zone where the sandy shore, the dunes, the lagoon, and human presence continue to coexist. And perhaps this is the most meaningful “story” behind its name: not a single legend, but the sense that this place has changed its face many times without ever losing its deep connection to land, water, and time.

Precisely for this reason, the protection and sustainable management of Frigole Beach are not merely a general environmental obligation, but a clear necessity. A place where beach, dunes, wetland, and human activity coexist cannot withstand uncontrolled tourism pressure, degradation of the natural landscape, pollution, or careless interventions along the shoreline. Frigole requires management that respects the natural dynamics of the coast, protects Acquatina and the neighboring ecosystems, limits pressure on the dunes and sensitive wetland formations, and at the same time ensures a high-quality experience for visitors. Only through such a balanced approach can Frigole remain not just a beautiful beach of the present, but a living coastal landscape with ecological, cultural, and historical value for future generations as well.

🇪🇺 Εξερευνώντας τους Κρυμμένους Παράκτιους Θησαυρούς της Ευρώπης – Ετήσια Ανασκόπηση Costa Nostrum 2025🇬🇧 Exploring Euro...
24/03/2026

🇪🇺 Εξερευνώντας τους Κρυμμένους Παράκτιους Θησαυρούς της Ευρώπης – Ετήσια Ανασκόπηση Costa Nostrum 2025

🇬🇧 Exploring Europe’s Hidden Coastal Treasures – Costa Nostrum 2025 Annual Review (English version: https://costanostrum.org/exploring-europes-hidden-coastal-treasures-costa-nostrum-2025-annual-review/11583)

Case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project

✅ 9 Χώρες • 9 Παραλίες • 1 Βιώσιμο Όραμα

Συνήθως το ετήσιο newsletter της Costa Nostrum φτάνει σε εσάς τις πρώτες ημέρες του νέου έτους. Αυτή τη φορά, ωστόσο, φτάνει λίγο αργότερα — κατά τους πρώτους μήνες του 2026. Ο λόγος είναι απλός: θέλαμε αυτή η έκδοση να περιλαμβάνει ορισμένα από τα ενδιαφέροντα αποτελέσματα στα οποία εργαζόμασταν τους τελευταίους μήνες, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της ολοκλήρωσης νέου οπτικού υλικού από τις αποστολές πεδίου που πραγματοποιήσαμε σε όλη την Ευρώπη. Αντί να στείλουμε μια σύντομη ανασκόπηση, προτιμήσαμε να περιμένουμε λίγο περισσότερο ώστε να μπορέσουμε να μοιραστούμε μαζί σας μια πιο ολοκληρωμένη εικόνα μιας χρονιάς που υπήρξε πραγματικά έντονη, παραγωγική και ιδιαίτερα εμπνευσμένη για την Costa Nostrum και την πρωτοβουλία Sustainable Beaches.

Και πράγματι, το 2025 ήταν μια εξαιρετική χρονιά για την Costa Nostrum.
Κατά τη διάρκεια του έτους, η ομάδα μας ολοκλήρωσε με επιτυχία εννέα αποστολές πεδίου σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη, στο πλαίσιο του Ευρωπαϊκού έργου Horizon PRO-COAST, με αντικείμενο την εφαρμογή του πρωτοκόλλου Costa Nostrum – Sustainable Beaches σε εννέα διαφορετικά παράκτια περιβάλλοντα.
Μέσα από αυτές τις αποστολές καταγράψαμε τα περιβαλλοντικά χαρακτηριστικά, τη γεωμορφολογία των ακτών, τη βιοποικιλότητα και την αλληλεπίδραση του ανθρώπου με το παράκτιο περιβάλλον, αναδεικνύοντας πώς μπορούν να εφαρμοστούν πρακτικές βιώσιμης διαχείρισης παραλιών σε διαφορετικά παράκτια τοπία της Ευρώπης.

Αποστολές Πεδίου Costa Nostrum 2025
9 Χώρες • 9 Παραλίες στην Ευρώπη

Οι χώρες και οι παραλίες που επισκεφθήκαμε κατά τις αποστολές του 2025 ήταν:

• 🇳🇴 Νορβηγία — Παραλία Melkeviken
• 🇲🇹 Μάλτα — Blue Lagoon, Νήσος Comino
• 🇪🇪 Εσθονία — Παραλία Kloogarand
• 🇷🇴 Ρουμανία — Παραλία Corbu
• 🇬🇧 Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο — Παραλία Knoll
• 🇮🇪 Ιρλανδία — Παραλία Streedagh
• 🇲🇪 Μαυροβούνιο — Παραλία Pecka / Velja Spila
• 🇸🇮 Σλοβενία — Παραλία Half Moon
• 🇮🇹 Ιταλία — Παραλία Frigole

Κάθε μία από αυτές τις επισκέψεις προσέφερε πολύτιμες πληροφορίες για τα τοπικά παράκτια οικοσυστήματα και για τη σχέση των ανθρώπων με το παράκτιο περιβάλλον. Μέσα από επιτόπιες παρατηρήσεις, εναέριες καταγραφές, υποβρύχια εξερεύνηση και τεκμηρίωση της βιοποικιλότητας, μπορέσαμε να εφαρμόσουμε και να αξιολογήσουμε το πρωτόκολλο βιώσιμης διαχείρισης της Costa Nostrum σε διαφορετικά παράκτια περιβάλλοντα της Ευρώπης.

Ανακαλύπτοντας τους Κρυμμένους Θησαυρούς των Ευρωπαϊκών Παραλιών
Από αυτές τις αποστολές προέκυψαν ήδη δύο ιδιαίτερα εντυπωσιακά βίντεο.
Melkeviken Beach – Νορβηγία

Ένα μοναδικό παράκτιο τοπίο στα φιόρδ της Νορβηγίας, όπου η γεωλογία, η θαλάσσια βιοποικιλότητα και η ανθρώπινη δραστηριότητα αποκαλύπτουν τον κρυμμένο οικολογικό πλούτο των βόρειων ευρωπαϊκών ακτών.

📺 Δείτε το βίντεο εδώ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q3ZIoldio

Blue Lagoon – Comino Island, Μάλτα

Ένα από τα πιο εμβληματικά παράκτια τοπία της Μεσογείου, όπου τα κρυστάλλινα νερά και τα υποθαλάσσια οικοσυστήματα αναδεικνύουν τη μοναδική φυσική ομορφιά που κρύβεται κάτω από την επιφάνεια της θάλασσας.

📺 Δείτε το βίντεο εδώ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwcDLAo9zjA

Μέσα από αυτά τα βίντεο ξανα ανακαλύπτουμε τους «κρυμμένους θησαυρούς» που κρύβουν αυτές οι παραλίες — τόσο πάνω από το νερό όσο και κάτω από την επιφάνειά του.

Κατά τη διάρκεια του 2026 θα δημιουργηθούν και τα υπόλοιπα επτά βίντεο που αφορούν τις υπόλοιπες παραλίες και τα οποία θα δημοσιευθούν στο επίσημο κανάλι της Costa Nostrum στο YouTube.

📺 Costa Nostrum YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com//videos

Μέσα από αυτές τις οπτικές ιστορίες επιδιώκουμε όχι μόνο να αναδείξουμε όμορφα παράκτια τοπία, αλλά και να υπογραμμίσουμε τη σημασία της βιώσιμης διαχείρισης των παραλιών και της προστασίας των παράκτιων οικοσυστημάτων της Ευρώπης.

Σκέψεις Κλείνοντας

Ανατρέχοντας στο 2025, αυτό που ξεχωρίζει δεν είναι μόνο ο αριθμός των παραλιών που επισκεφθήκαμε, αλλά κυρίως η ποικιλομορφία των παράκτιων τοπίων και των κοινοτήτων που συναντήσαμε στη διαδρομή μας. Από τα φιόρδ της Νορβηγίας έως τα γαλαζοπράσινα νερά της Μάλτας, κάθε ακτή αφηγείται μια διαφορετική ιστορία, όλες όμως μοιράζονται την ίδια ανάγκη: σωστή διαχείριση, σεβασμό στο περιβάλλον και ένα μακροπρόθεσμο όραμα βιωσιμότητας.

Η πρωτοβουλία Costa Nostrum συνεχίζει να εξελίσσεται χάρη στη συνεργασία, την επιστημονική περιέργεια και την κοινή πεποίθηση ότι οι παραλίες δεν είναι απλώς χώροι αναψυχής, αλλά ζωντανά παράκτια οικοσυστήματα και πολιτιστικά τοπία που αξίζουν να κατανοηθούν, να προστατευθούν και να αναδειχθούν.

Σας προσκαλούμε θερμά να μοιραστείτε αυτό το newsletter και τα βίντεο με συνεργάτες, φίλους και οποιονδήποτε ενδιαφέρεται για τη βιωσιμότητα των παράκτιων περιοχών.

Σας ευχαριστούμε που είστε μέρος της κοινότητας Costa Nostrum.

Η ομάδα της Costa Nostrum

🌙 Half Moon Bay – Balance Through Time (Strunjan Nature Park, Slovenia)At the heart of Strunjan Nature Park, Half Moon B...
06/03/2026

🌙 Half Moon Bay – Balance Through Time (Strunjan Nature Park, Slovenia)

At the heart of Strunjan Nature Park, Half Moon Bay is not simply a crescent-shaped cove.

ℹ️ “Half Moon Bay Beach - Slovenia”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project”

📍 Map Here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fLL3CFx7Ejw8X8gZ7

It is a natural system in operation.

The slopes surrounding it consist of sedimentary formations - deposits of an ancient sea that were gradually uplifted and later exposed to erosion. Their shape is not the result of a single moment. It is the outcome of millions of years of balance between deposition and weathering.

The curve of the coastline is not an aesthetic coincidence.
It is a delicate equilibrium shaped over deep time.
Here, the dynamics of the Adriatic Sea are naturally reduced.
The morphology absorbs energy.
The sea enters and retreats without destabilizing the system.
This is not accidental.
It is balance.
And this balance made the emergence of culture possible.

🧂 A Landscape that Cooperates

Just beyond the curve of Half Moon Bay, the terrain lowers and transforms into one of the most characteristic examples of gentle human intervention: the traditional salt pans of Strunjan.

Natural elevation differences, limited wave energy, and a stable microclimate created an ideal setting for salt production.
Not industrial.
But cooperative.
Seawater is guided into shallow basins.
Evaporation occurs exclusively through solar energy.
Salt crystallizes naturally.
No acceleration.
No violent alteration.
The process does not impose itself on the landscape.
It adapts to it.
Micro-relief, wind direction, sunlight, and temperature fluctuations all form part of an open system where humans and nature operate in complementarity.
Each salt crystal represents the final stage of a natural energy cycle:
sun → evaporation → concentration → crystallization.
A cycle that remains sustainable precisely because it does not disrupt the coastal mechanism that supports it.

🌊 The Responsibility of Preservation
Half Moon Bay does not impress through its size.
It impresses through its form.
Limited human intervention allows the ecosystem to remain functional.
Geomorphology continues to absorb energy.
The salt pans continue to operate with a low environmental footprint.
Biodiversity continues to find space.
Yet this balance is not guaranteed.
Increasing tourism pressure, climate change, sea-level rise, and unplanned coastal development can disrupt a mechanism that required geological timescales to form.
Protecting Moon Bay is not an aesthetic choice.
It is an ecological necessity.
Coastlines are not simple lines on a map.
They are dynamic, sensitive ecosystems.

If we want them to continue functioning - producing salt, safeguarding biodiversity, preserving cultural heritage - their management must be grounded in knowledge, respect for natural processes, and the limits of carrying capacity.
The curve of Moon Bay may resemble the moon.

But in reality, it represents something deeper:
a living example of how nature and humanity can coexist when development respects the boundaries of the ecosystem that sustains it.

🗺️ Pecka Beach – Between Stone and Lightℹ️ "Pecka Beach - Montenegro", case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast  E...
26/02/2026

🗺️ Pecka Beach – Between Stone and Light
ℹ️ "Pecka Beach - Montenegro", case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project

There are places that do not impress you at first glance, but like great loves, they slowly fill your soul, until you find yourself full of beautiful emotions. Here, the coast is simple—stone, water, and light. Nothing more than what is needed. In the morning, the sun touches the rocks first and then the water, as if checking that everything is in its place. The water is clean, transparent, almost still—not because there is no wind, but because the place holds no tension. The rocks do not stand imposing; they stand quietly, as if they have been here long before us and are in no hurry to leave.

Time flows differently here. There are no loud sounds, only the gentle rise and fall of the water and the slow change of light. Anyone who stays a little longer understands it: here, time is not measured in minutes, but in moments. A shadow that grows, a wave that fades without breaking, a body that relaxes without realizing it. The landscape does not try to keep you, nor to impress you. It simply exists. And perhaps that is why those who leave, leave more slowly than they arrived, carrying a feeling that is hard to describe—not an image or a story, but the certainty that, for a while, the world was simple. And that was enough.

Such places do not need much. They need protection from human actions that can destroy this beautiful landscape. Their tranquility depends on a delicate balance between land, sea, and people. If we approach them with respect, if we leave nothing behind except traces that fade away, if we see them not as scenery but as a living whole, then this simplicity and this calm can continue to exist. Not to be possessed, but to be shared with those who come next.

🗺️ Streedagh Beach | Where the Wave Meets Timeℹ️ "Streedagh Beach - Ireland”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-C...
13/01/2026

🗺️ Streedagh Beach | Where the Wave Meets Time
ℹ️ "Streedagh Beach - Ireland”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project

On the north-western edge of Ireland, in County Sligo, Streedagh Beach stretches quietly, long and open, like a pathway between the present and the past. The sand is wide, the horizon open, and the air carries the rhythm of the Atlantic. Today, people walk without haste, surfboards carve gentle arcs across the water, and footsteps fade softly behind them.

Yet once, this very shore marked the end of a great journey.

In September 1588, the Spanish Armada, weary and battered, was driven here by storms and relentless winds. Three ships - La Lavia, La Juliana, and Santa María de Visón - were shattered upon the sands of Streedagh. Where waves now roll in with calm persistence, wood, iron, and human lives once collided.

Decades and centuries did not erase this history; they allowed it to settle, like salt upon the sand. Streedagh learned to live alongside what was lost, without erasing it. Today, the shipwrecks of the area are officially designated as a protected underwater archaeological monument, acknowledging their significance as part of Europe’s maritime history and underwater cultural landscape.

And it was not only those ships. Years later, another wreck - known as the Butter Boat - met its end in the same waters. For a long time it was believed to belong to the tragedy of the Armada, until it was revealed to come from a different era. Yet all wrecks share the same space beneath the surface of the sea, becoming silent fragments of the same landscape.

Today, Streedagh is a place of movement and stillness alike. Every step upon the sand and every wave reaching the shore reveals how the present coexists with the past, without covering it or altering it.

🌎 Perhaps this is the true meaning of Streedagh: a reminder that coastlines are not merely places of recreation, but living boundaries between people, history, and the natural world.

Because the protection of marine and coastal ecosystems is not only about nature; it is an act of memory, respect, and responsibility. It is about preserving coastlines, the life they host, and the traces of the past they carry - so that the wave may continue to touch the sand gently, and future generations may walk here, listening not only to the sound of the sea, but to the stories of the place - stories that coexist with life as it moves forward, without one destroying the other.

✨ New Year, Green Horizons!Let’s make this year a milestone for sustainable tourism and preserving our beaches for futur...
30/12/2025

✨ New Year, Green Horizons!

Let’s make this year a milestone for sustainable tourism and preserving our beaches for future generations.

Best wishes for an inspiring year ahead!

🇬🇷 Καλές γιορτές και ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος!Η νέα χρονιά θα μας βρει με το βλέμμα στραμμένο στη θάλασσα, με σεβασμό στο...
24/12/2025

🇬🇷 Καλές γιορτές και ευτυχισμένο το νέο έτος!
Η νέα χρονιά θα μας βρει με το βλέμμα στραμμένο στη θάλασσα, με σεβασμό στο φυσικό περιβάλλον και με δέσμευση για βιώσιμες ακτές, υπεύθυνο τουρισμό και ουσιαστικές συνεργασίες.

Στην Costa Nostrum συνεχίζουμε να εργαζόμαστε για παραλίες που προστατεύονται, αναδεικνύονται και παραδίδονται καλύτερες στις επόμενες γενιές.

✨ Καλή και δημιουργική χρονιά σε όλους!

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🇬🇧 Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
The new year will finds us looking to the sea with responsibility, respect for nature,
and a strong commitment to sustainable beaches, responsible tourism, and meaningful partnerships.

At Costa Nostrum, we continue working to protect, enhance, and pass on our coasts to future generations.

✨ Wishing you a creative and inspiring year ahead!

🗺️ Knoll Beach | Where the Land Remembersℹ️ “Knoll Beach - UK”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizo...
22/12/2025

🗺️ Knoll Beach | Where the Land Remembers

ℹ️ “Knoll Beach - UK”, case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon ProjectKnoll Beach - Where the Land Remembers

Behind the soft sands of Knoll Beach, where the shoreline stretches wide and low, with fine, pale sand and a gentle slope into the sea, the landscape feels calm and open. The seabed is mainly sandy, with clear, shallow waters close to the shore, while farther out the view meets the sheltered bay of Studland, which rarely turns rough. Behind the beach, sand dunes and low scrub vegetation form a natural boundary between the sea and the inland landscape. Yet this calm is not empty; it is filled with memory.

A little farther inland, among the heathland of Studland, stands the Agglestone Rock - the stone locals named the Devil’s Anvil. Legend says that the Devil, seeking to strike the land of humans, hurled the rock from afar. He missed his mark. The rock remained there, alone, as a sign of failure and a warning: not everything thrown against nature bends to it.

Knoll Beach faces the same horizon. And that horizon, in April 1944, filled with ships, noise, and tension. Here, in Studland Bay, a quiet yet critical chapter of history was written. Soldiers landed on the sand, tanks tested the waves, and the landscape that today appears untouched was then pushed to its limits. These were the rehearsals for D-Day, a moment that would change the course of Europe.

And yet, nature endured. The dunes shifted, the traces faded, the low scrub vegetation regenerated. As with the rock of the legend, so too with the war: the landscape did not submit. It remembers, but it moves forward.

Today, Knoll Beach and the Agglestone Rock are not simply points on a map. They are reminders that the land carries stories deeper than us, myths, wars, and ultimately, resilience.

And for that very reason, the way we stand before it matters.

🌎 The protection of coastal ecosystems concerns not only nature itself, but also the memory they carry. Because sustainable development is not a compromise with the landscape; it is the only path that allows nature to continue telling its story alive, whole, and free.

🌊 Corbu Beach Romania - “Where the Sand Watches the Sea”Case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Projec...
11/12/2025

🌊 Corbu Beach Romania - “Where the Sand Watches the Sea”

Case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project

📌 Before Corbu Beach became a meeting place for travelers, wanderers, and nature lovers, it was above all a place of observation. The tall dunes rising behind the shoreline form a natural embankment, a ridge that gazes over the Black Sea like a silent eyelid of the earth. It is no coincidence that today, just a little further north, a military base operates there; the shape of the land has always allowed for a clear watch over the horizon.

Although no written sources confirm it, many local historians consider it likely that these dunes once served as an informal lookout, a vantage point where shepherds, traders, or patrols could see approaching ships, storms, or unfamiliar travelers coming from the south.

But long before people took watch, the true observers of Corbu were the birds.

Because of its proximity to the Danube Delta and the Black Sea, the area lies along a major route for numerous migratory and coastal species: gulls, seabirds, and large seasonal flocks that use the coastal zones and nearby lagoon systems as resting and feeding grounds. The small salt pans behind the beach, where the evaporating water leaves thin white crystals on the soil, attract a multitude of species each year seeking brief refuge between long journeys.

The terrestrial zone of the coast hosts low, resilient vegetation: tamarisk shrubs, wild thyme, sea daffodils blooming in midsummer like quiet beacons on the sand. Among them, the foxes of Dobruja leave their night tracks, while hares move along the edges of the dunes.

🐦‍⬛ And above them all the raven. The bird that gave the area its name. Corbu: the place of ravens.

According to local oral accounts, not legends, but everyday memories of shepherds from the previous century, ravens could “read” the weather. If they flew low in the morning, the sea would be calm; if they circled high above the dunes, change was coming, carried either by wind or by distant arrival.
Thus the coast became a place of double observation: people watching the sea and ravens watching the land.

Modern-day Corbu, one of Romania’s last authentically unspoiled beaches, still retains this dual identity. The sand stretches quietly, interrupted only by shells, driftwood, and long silences.

🐚 And the shells… they are everywhere. Layer upon shifting layer, like the beach’s own archive. Some broken, some intact, some polished glossy white by salt and time - small luminous flares scattered across the sand. With every step, you hear a soft crackle, the whisper of a seabed brought ashore, a memory the sea deposits again and again in the very same place, year after year.

Visitors often do not realize that the water before them is the living extension of one of Europe’s most significant ecosystems, the Danube Delta, a realm where species travel, breed, and take shelter, as they have for thousands of years.

And each evening, as the sun sinks behind the dunes, a dark bird often appears on the horizon. It hovers for a few seconds above the ridges, as if inspecting the land. Locals say this is no legend, merely Corbu remembering its own name.

The beach may change with weather, wind, and human presence, but its essence remains the same: a place where nature watches people just as people watch nature.

✅ And perhaps that is why Corbu keeps reminding us that sustainable development is not something built over nature, but an agreement made with it, a promise of protection that keeps the coast alive.

🌳🌊 Kloogarand - “Where the Forest Meets the Sea” 🙏 Case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon ProjectSome...
04/12/2025

🌳🌊 Kloogarand - “Where the Forest Meets the Sea”

🙏 Case study visit in the framework of PRO-Coast EU Horizon Project

Some coastlines feel as if they were born from the meeting of two worlds.
Loogarand is one of them: a place where the green of the forest reaches the sand and blends with the blue of the Baltic.

By the late 19th century, this shoreline had become one of the most beloved seaside retreats in northern Estonia.
People came for its calm, shallow waters and for the unique sensation of being embraced by nature from both sides, from the land and from the sea.
It was a place that made visitors slow down and breathe differently.

Over time, the beach entered a quieter chapter.
Not one of decline, simply one of silence.
Visitors grew fewer, and Kloogarand remained peaceful for years, as if returning to its most natural state.

The forest moved forward, the sand widened, and the sea continued its gentle rhythm, unchanged.

Kloogarand’s new era came gradually.
Through small, thoughtful interventions:
paths that protect the dunes, facilities that support — rather than burden — the landscape, and resting areas designed with respect for the surrounding environment.
Not an attempt to transform the coast, but to preserve it as it truly is.

Today, Kloogarand is one of the coastal areas managed with particular care by local authorities, to safeguard its natural character and maintain the balance between forest, sand, and sea.

And as you approach the beach and watch the green dissolve into blue and the blue melt into the sky, you sense that this place is not trying to impress.
It simply exists quietly, clean and balanced.
And it reminds you of something simple:
that sustainable development can and should be synonymous with the protection and celebration of nature.

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Parodos Dragonadas, 6
Herákleion
71410

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Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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