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Bottle Digging in Southern Europe
65 researched sites, each with an access tier, evidence tier and site history.
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- A Coruna: Playa de los Cristales (look only) · foreshore · Prohibited / view only
- Algarve: Benagil cave coves · foreshore · Gray area
- Almunecar: Puerta del Mar pebbles · foreshore · Restricted
- Amalfi Coast: Minori beach shingle · foreshore · Clean
- Baiona: Cabo Silleiro glass cove · foreshore · Gray area
- Bar: Topolica seafront at old Pristan quarter, Montenegro · foreshore · Open / legal
- Barcelona: Badalona / Pont del Petroli · foreshore · Gray area
- Bay of Naples: Castellammare seafront · foreshore · Restricted
- Bilbao: Azkorri beach, Getxo · foreshore · Gray area
- Bordeaux: Garonne foreshore (eyes only) · river · Restricted
- Cadiz Bay: Playa de la Muralla, El Puerto · foreshore · Restricted
- Calais: Plage de Sangatte · foreshore · Gray area
- Capri: Marina Piccola gravel · foreshore · Gray area
- Cartagena, Spain: naval harbour · foreshore · Restricted
- Chania: Venetian harbour, Crete · foreshore · Restricted
- Corfu: Venetian old harbour · foreshore · Restricted
- Elba: Spiaggia dell'Innamorata, Capoliveri · foreshore · Gray area
- Genoa: Vernazzola fishing-village shingle · foreshore · Clean
- Granville: Plat de Gousset shingle · foreshore · Gray area
- Heraklion: Venetian harbour, Crete · foreshore · Restricted
- Herceg Novi: Skver shingle below old town, Montenegro · foreshore · Open / legal
- Korcula: Luka Korculanska coves by old town, Croatia · foreshore · Open / legal
- Lanzarote: Puerto del Carmen old-town shore · foreshore · Gray area
- Laxe: Praia dos Cristais (look only) · foreshore · Prohibited / view only
- Le Havre: Dollemard cliff-foot rubble beach · foreshore · Gray area
- Liguria: Alassio-Finale groyne shingle · foreshore · Gray area
- Lisbon: Cais das Colunas sand pockets · foreshore · Gray area
- Lisbon: Cruz Quebrada-Caxias Tagus foreshore · foreshore · Restricted
- Livorno (Leghorn): free-port canals · foreshore · Permission required
- Malaga: old-port foreshore · foreshore · Permission required
- Malta: Sliema rocky foreshore (strict) · foreshore · Restricted
- Marseille: Malmousque / Bain des Dames coves · foreshore · Gray area
- Mesquer: Plage de Sorlock (south Brittany) · foreshore · Gray area
- Murano: Faro foreshore (Venice lagoon) · foreshore · Restricted
- Murano: Sacca San Mattia glass-waste island (off-limits) · dump · Prohibited / view only
- Nafplio: first-capital harbour · foreshore · Restricted
- Nantes: Trentemoult Loire foreshore · river · Gray area
- Naxos: Grotta beach, Greece (surface only) · foreshore · Restricted
- Nice: Promenade des Anglais shingle · foreshore · Gray area
- Palermo: La Cala old harbour · foreshore · Restricted
- Patras: Peloponnese currant port · foreshore · Permission required
- Peniche: fortress shore · foreshore · Gray area
- Piraeus: port of Athens · foreshore · Permission required
- Porto: Foz do Douro / Afurada mouth · foreshore · Gray area
- Pula: Valkane Bay shingle, Croatia · foreshore · Open / legal
- Rhodes: Elli beach, Greece · foreshore · Restricted
- Rijeka: Kvarner Bay coves, Croatia · foreshore · Restricted
- Risan: ancient Rhizon waterfront, Montenegro · foreshore · Restricted
- Rome: Tiber embankment banks (eyes only) · river · Restricted
- Rouen: tidal Seine foreshore (eyes only) · river · Restricted
- Saint-Malo: Eventail / Bon-Secours shingle · foreshore · Gray area
- Santander: Cantabrian bay front · foreshore · Permission required
- Seville: Guadalquivir & Arenal · river · Restricted
- Split: Matejuska fishermen's harbour, Croatia · foreshore · Open / legal
- Syracuse: Cala Rossa, Ortigia · foreshore · Restricted
- Syros (Ermoupoli): 19th c. main Greek port · foreshore · Restricted
- Tarragona: Roman-port foreshore · foreshore · Restricted
- Thessaloniki: Ottoman waterfront · foreshore · Restricted
- Tivat: Belane shore by former Arsenal, Montenegro · foreshore · Open / legal
- Trieste: Barcola shingle (Austro-Hungarian port) · foreshore · Gray area
- Ulcinj: Valdanos cove, Montenegro · foreshore · Open / legal
- Valencia: Grao port & old bed · foreshore · Permission required
- Vasto Marina old landing shore, Abruzzo · foreshore · Gray area
- Vigo: Ria de Vigo fishing port · foreshore · Permission required
- Zadar: Kolovare beach below old town, Croatia · foreshore · Open / legal