Peguera (Paguera) live webcams

What you can see on the Peguera webcams

The cameras cover almost every stretch of the seafront. There is a wide view over the palms and promenade of Platja de Palmira, the main beach, and another from under the pines at its western end; a rooftop view across the parasols of Platja de Torà; and the square beside Torà, the heart of the resort in the evening. To the west, one camera looks down into the clear, rock-fringed water of Cala Fornells, and another zooms back across the bay to the hotels on the beach. Together they show where the sand is busy, how calm the bay is and what the sky is doing over the hills.

Platja de Palmira webcam, Peguera's main beach

Mounted on a balcony above the seafront, this camera takes in the whole of Platja de Palmira in one sweeping 180-degree picture, so the edges bend like a fisheye. In the foreground the curved promenade runs past the low wall of the beach; tall palms stand on the sand, the sea opens out beyond them with a pine-covered point across the water, and on the right a small jetty and a tall hotel close the view.

Because it sees the promenade as well as the beach, it shows how lively Peguera is at any hour: people strolling, the sunbeds in use, swimmers in the shallows. Low evening light turns the palms gold, and on a windy day you can watch small waves running up the sand.

Torà beach in Peguera: parasols, flags and the bay

This camera sits on the roof of a restaurant at the back of Platja de Torà, the eastern beach of Peguera, and looks out to sea over its pergolas. Rows of straw parasols and white sunbeds cover the sand, a flag on a pole at the left shows which way the wind is blowing, and umbrella pines lean over the beach on the right. On the left, a hotel and a wooded point mark the end of the beach; across the water, the long, low coast towards Santa Ponça ends in a scatter of small islets.

Check it for space on the sand, for the swimmers in the shallow water and for the sea state in the bay, from glassy in the morning to choppy when the breeze picks up.

Along Platja de Palmira, under the seafront pines

From a garden at the western end of Platja de Palmira, this camera looks east along the beach through the branches of a large pine. Flags flutter on poles near the lens, young palms stand on the sand, and the shoreline curves away on the left towards the hotels in the middle of the resort and the wooded hills beyond. The open water of the bay fills the right of the picture, often with a boat or two at anchor.

It is a gentler, ground-level view than the wide camera above the promenade, closer to what you see when you walk down to the beach. The flags make it easy to read the wind, and in the late afternoon the low sun lights up the whole curve of the bay.

Clear water and anchored boats in Cala Fornells

Cala Fornells is the rocky inlet at the western end of Peguera, below a village of terraced houses on the hillside. The camera looks down from the rocks into the narrow mouth of the cove: steep grey cliffs and pines on both sides, boulders in the foreground and water so clear that the seabed shows through in shades of turquoise and deep blue. Beyond, the bay opens out, with boats at anchor and the hotels and hills of Peguera along the far shore.

This is the camera for snorkellers and boat owners. When the water is still and the rocks on the bottom are sharp, conditions in the cove are perfect; ripples and a darker surface mean the wind has reached the bay. It looks east, so the afternoon sun lights it from behind.

Peguera's hotels and beach seen from across the bay

This is a motorised camera on the Cala Fornells side of the bay, so its owner can turn and zoom it, and its framing may change. When we looked, it was zoomed in across the water on the Peguera seafront: a row of white hotels and apartment blocks with palms in front, the beach with its sunbeds below them and, behind, the steep pine-covered hills that rise straight up from the resort.

From this distance you see the bay from the water's point of view: yellow buoys marking the swimming area, yachts swinging at anchor, small boats crossing, and how the light and the colour of the sea change through the day.

Plaça de Torà, the square by the beach in Peguera

From a restaurant terrace beside the beach, this camera looks across Plaça de Torà, the paved square at the heart of Peguera. Tall umbrella pines shade the square, a steel pergola stands in the middle, bars and restaurants line the far side under a hotel, and on the left a glimpse of sand and sea shows through the trees.

The square is where the resort gathers in the evening and where events are held, so this is the camera for the atmosphere rather than the beach: how many people are out, whether the terraces are busy and, now and then, a stage set up for an event. In the late afternoon the low sun slants through the pines and lights the square in long stripes.