Cala Canyelles, Lloret de Mar: 2026 Area Guide to a 450 m Blue Flag Cove

Take Casa Magnolia, one of the five properties we have for sale here: a five-bedroom villa on a 915 m² plot, listed at €675,000. Bought from a private owner, it carries Catalan transfer tax of about €68,250, plus notary, Land Registry and legal fees. The beach is about 1,000 m away. And if the idea was to let it to tourists, Lloret de Mar currently grants no new tourist licences.

None of that makes Canyelles a hard place to buy. It means the details matter more than the view. Below: where the area is, the beach, the port, the coastal path, prices, the tourist-licence rules in Lloret, and what to check before an offer. It's the second area of Lloret in our series, after our guide to Fenals.

Where Cala Canyelles is

Canyelles sits north-east of central Lloret de Mar, towards Tossa de Mar. The council's 2026 local housing plan lists it among Lloret's urbanisations, and the statistics office Idescat counts it as a separate settlement with its own population. You reach it from the GI-682, the road that runs along the coast from Blanes through Lloret to Tossa.

Lloret Turisme describes Canyelles as the beach furthest from the town centre, reached from the Tossa road and surrounded by pine-covered rocks. The local sailing club gives the distance to Lloret as 3 km. Our own listings put the area 2 to 3.5 km from the centre, depending on the street.

There is public transport, but it's limited. The town bus network, Lloretbus, lists line L03 from the bus station to Cala Canyelles. The sailing club says the line runs in July and August, so check the current timetable before relying on it.

Cala Canyelles beach

According to Lloret Turisme, the beach is 450 m long and 45 m wide, with coarse sand and a gentle 5% slope. It is similar in size to Santa Cristina beach.

• Blue Flag 2026. Canyelles is one of five Blue Flag beaches in Lloret de Mar this year, alongside Fenals, Lloret, Sa Boadella and Santa Cristina. The award body ADEAC granted it for 2026 and 2027, with an annual check in 2027.
• Water quality. The Catalan Water Agency (ACA) rated the bathing water at Cala Canyelles excellent in its 2025 report, which assesses the seasons 2022 to 2025.
• Services. Lloret Turisme lists showers and foot-wash taps, sunbed and parasol hire, water skiing, pedalos and kayaks, an ice-cream and drinks kiosk, restaurants and shops. The page is not dated, so treat the list as a guide.
• Season. Lloret Turisme gives the bathing season as 15 June to 15 September.

The port and the Club Nàutic Cala Canyelles

Canyelles has Lloret's only port. Ports de la Generalitat lists it with 134 berths for boats up to 8 m, an entrance 30 m wide, 4 m of depth at the entrance and 2 m inside. There is a slipway, a dry storage area and a 4-tonne crane. Listed services include a harbour office, showers, water, electricity, a restaurant, repairs and 24-hour security. Fuel is not on the list, so ask before you count on it.

The contact for berths is the Club Nàutic Cala Canyelles, founded in 1968; work on the port began in 1970. With boats limited to 8 m, this is a harbour for a small motorboat or a day sailer, not a yacht. For larger boats, see our guide to marinas on the Costa Brava.

The Camí de Ronda to Lloret and Tossa

The coastal path passes right through Canyelles. Lloret Turisme gives the full route from Lloret to Tossa de Mar as 13.4 km, about 3 hours one way, of medium difficulty. It needs a reasonable level of fitness, runs along tarmac in places and climbs up and down the cliffs, and you need to follow the waymarks. The route is also part of the long-distance GR 92 path.

So from the centre of Lloret to Canyelles it's 5.0 km on foot along the coast. Cala Morisca, the next cove towards Tossa, is described by Lloret Turisme as a small, unspoilt cove in a natural setting.

Villas for sale in Cala Canyelles: prices in 2026

There are no official price statistics for Canyelles alone. Two sources give a rough picture.

What buyers paid in Lloret. In sales registered between April and June 2026, homes in Lloret de Mar sold for an average of €2,442 per built m², with an average size of 95 m² and an average price of about €195,000 (184 sales; Generalitat de Catalunya, Land Registry data). That figure mixes flats and houses, new and resale.

What sellers ask in Canyelles. On idealista, asking prices in the Canyelles district averaged €3,150 per m² in September 2026, 13.9% more than a year earlier. The Lloret average was €2,698, Fenals €3,278 and Montgoda €3,510. Asking prices are not sale prices, but the gap shows that Canyelles is priced above the town average.

Here is what we have for sale in Cala Canyelles today. Price per m² is our own calculation, built area for houses and land area for plots.

The spread is wide because these are very different properties. The villa with a tourist licence is laid out as two separate units, four bedrooms and three, with a licence for 12 to 14 guests. Casa Magnolia dates from 1976, with the main floor renovated and the pool from 2006. The most expensive house has sea views from its pool and a self-contained apartment with its own kitchen and bathroom. Casa Magnolia's listing gives Tossa de Mar as about 10 minutes by car, Girona airport about 40 minutes and Barcelona airport about 1 hour 15 minutes.

Tourist licence in Lloret de Mar in 2026

Lloret de Mar is one of the 262 Catalan towns listed in decree-law 3/2023 (number 124 in its annex). In these towns a tourist dwelling (HUT) needs a prior urban-planning licence, valid for five years and renewable, with a ceiling of 10 tourist dwellings per 100 residents.

On top of that, Lloret council says on its website that, given the current number of licences, new tourist dwellings cannot be registered. Only a change of owner or a cancellation is possible. Idescat counted 3,134 registered tourist dwellings in Lloret in 2025.

For a buyer, this splits Canyelles in two. A house without a licence will not get one now, so buy it as a home. A house that already holds one, like our villa above, can keep it through a change of owner. But every existing tourist dwelling in these towns has five years from 9 November 2023, so until November 2028, to obtain the new urban-planning licence or stop operating, with an extension possible in some cases. Before you pay for a licence, have a lawyer confirm the registration number and the plan for 2028. Our article on where tourist licences are still available on the Costa Brava covers the other towns.

Taxes when you buy in Canyelles

If you buy a resale from a private owner, you pay Catalan transfer tax (ITP): 10% up to €600,000, 11% from €600,000 to €900,000, 12% from €900,000 to €1,500,000 and 13% above, each rate only on the part of the price inside its band. The base is the higher of the price and the Catastro reference value.

Two examples from the table above. Casa Magnolia at €675,000: €60,000 on the first €600,000 plus €8,250 on the rest, €68,250 in total. The building plot at €117,000: €11,700. Both assume the reference value is not above the price. Our purchase tax calculator for Catalonia works it out for any price.

What to check before you buy in Cala Canyelles

Access by car. The way in is from the GI-682. In 2019 Lloret's council asked the Generalitat for a roundabout at the Canyelles entrance and for improvements to the road, to make the access safer. Drive it at the times you would use it, including a summer weekend.

The walk to the beach. Our plot listing describes the beach as about 800 m away walking down from the urbanisation, so the walk back climbs. Distances in the table range from a few minutes to about a kilometre. Walk it from the house you like before you decide it is "near the beach".

Streets and services. We found no official document on who maintains the streets in Canyelles, or on any owners' body that charges fees here. Ask the seller and the council whether the street is municipal, whether any works or charges are planned, and how water and sewerage are connected.

Plots. Before a deposit on land, get the council's planning information for that plot: what you may build, how high and how far from the boundaries. A sea view from a plot depends on what the plan allows on the plots below it.

Seasons. Lloret Turisme gives the bathing season as mid-June to mid-September, and the club says the bus runs in July and August. Visit once in high season and once in winter to see it in both seasons.

Who Cala Canyelles suits

• Families and groups who want space. Our listed houses stand on plots of 408 to 955 m², with pools and outdoor space, near a Blue Flag beach.
• Owners of a small boat. The port, with berths up to 8 m, is right by the beach.
• Walkers. The coastal path to Lloret and Tossa runs past the beach.
• Buyers who want to build. Two of our five listings are plots.

If you want to walk to shops, cafés and a town beach every day, Fenals or central Lloret will fit better: compare them in our guide to Fenals and in Blanes vs Lloret de Mar. The everyday costs of living in town are in our article on the cost of living in Lloret de Mar.

Three practical rules

1. Decide first whether you need a tourist licence. In Lloret it now comes only with a house that already has one, and by November 2028 it must obtain the new urban-planning licence (an extension is possible in some cases).

2. Judge the house, not just the area. The distance to the beach, the climb back and the drive to the main road differ from street to street.

3. Get the papers before the deposit. Land Registry extract, the tourist registration if there is one, and for a plot the council's planning information. A deposit contract binds you: our guide to the contrato de arras explains how.

Author: @katy.bon.estate, property consultant on the Costa Brava

Sources: Lloret Turisme (beach page and official Camí de Ronda map, lloretdemar.org); ADEAC, Blue Flag beaches 2026; Agència Catalana de l'Aigua, bathing water report 2025; Ports de la Generalitat, Cala Canyelles port page (data of 1 October 2024); Club Nàutic Cala Canyelles; Patronat de Turisme Costa Brava Girona (GR 92, stage 11); Idescat (population 1 January 2025; tourist dwellings 2025); Ajuntament de Lloret de Mar (Pla Local d'Habitatge 2026; motion on the Canyelles access, 28 October 2019; tourist dwellings page); Lloretbus (lines); Decret llei 3/2023 (BOE) and Govern de Catalunya press note 553942; Generalitat de Catalunya, registered home sales by municipality, Q2 2026, Land Registry data; idealista, Lloret de Mar asking prices by district, September 2026; Agència Tributària de Catalunya (ITP rates); VivendaNova listings. Cover: Cala Canyelles, Lloret de Mar. Photo: Maria Geli i Pilar Planagumà. Arxiu d'Imatges PTCBG, 3063. Information as of 13 November 2026. This is general information, not legal or tax advice: check your case with a lawyer in Spain.