If you want to visit the world's happiest beach, you can escape Barcelona crowds at the same time and visit this paradise on Spain's coastline.

A mere 24 miles from Barcelona is Spain's lesser-known beach city, Sitges, a local crowd-pleaser and unofficial gay capital of the country. With 17 sandy beaches, the town itself is also a ...

CV Villas wrote: "Sitges Beach in Barcelona, Spain is crowned the world's happiest beach, with a near perfect happiness score of 98.42 out of a possible 100. "Just outside Spain's popular city ...

Spain dominated the podium, with two of its beaches among the top three. Sitges Beach, just 25 miles from Barcelona, took the top spot with a near-perfect “beach happiness score” of 98.42.