The Beaches of Spain Have Been Covered with Animals that Dye the Shore of Blue and Announce the Arrival of Spring

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The beaches of Sant Martí d’Empúries, in the municipality of L’Escala, have woken up these days covered by a blue carpet of small marine organisms. They are the well-known barquets of Sant Pere, dragged to the sand by a temporary lift that the neighbors call “temporal de les faves” and that usually announces the arrival of spring on the Catalan coast. The phenomenon has the scientific name Velella velella, popularly medusa sailboat. It is not a …