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We’ll start with an absolute topper. The largest nude beach in Europe is called Linguizzetta beach and can be found on the French island Corsica. And right at this nude beach is naturist resort Bagheera. While France is known for its huge Atlantic nude beaches (more about those later), the Mediterranean ones tend to be much smaller and often very crowded. Well, Linguizzetta beach is the complete opposite of this. It’s a wide, 4-kilometer-long nude beach with several watersports facilities and a handful of beach bars.
Right next door to Euronat, you’ll find a very similar resort when it comes to size and beach access. CHM Montalivet is often said to be the birthmat of naturism in Europe because several important organizations were founded here. Today, it’s mostly a huge naturist campsite with lots of facilities and an excellent nude beach.
A bit further south from the last two resorts, you’ll find La Jenny. Technically, this resort doesn’t fit on the list, because there’s no direct access to the nude beach. Instead, you’ll need to walk for about 15 minutes (or cycle for 5 minutes) via a path that is considered a public road. And on French public roads, you technically can’t be naked. We keep saying “technically” because when we were at La Jenny nobody cared about this. There is nothing but nature around and the only people you’ll encounter are visitors to the resort or the beach.
Probably the best-known resort in Spain for beach naturism is Vera Playa. This is one of the two real naturist villages on this list, in the sense that it’s an actual village with neighborhoods and streets where nudity is the norm. The nude beach at Vera Playa is large and wide and there are several beach bars where you can enjoy a refreshment without having to put your clothes on.
For when Mr. Massa, 74, a retired Navy commander and computer science engineer from Virginia Beach, and his wife, Darlene, go on vacation, they do it in the nude. “If you haven’t tried it, there’s no way I can tell you what a fun thing it is, what an added dimension to a vacation it can be” said Mr. Massa, who has been taking “clothing-optional” vacations since 2001 and whose most recent trip was to an all-nude resort in Mexico. “I’ll never forget the day,” said Mr. Massa, recalling the couple’s first nudist vacation at a Caribbean resort. “The place was full. We went to the far end of the pool and Dar said, ‘I’m going to take my top off.’ I thought I’m not going to wear these stupid swim trunks in the pool. So I jumped in naked. She looked down at me and dropped her bottoms and we never looked back.”
