Cabo Cervera is the rocky headland that separates the northern beaches from the central ones, and it does the thing that headlands do well: interrupt the sandy uniformity of a beach resort coast with something different. The cape juts into the sea with low cliffs and a scattering of rocky coves, and a small lighthouse marks the point. The water around the rocks is clear and shallow over the kind of mixed sand and rock bottom that supports more marine life than bare sand — it is one of the better snorkelling spots on this stretch of coast, accessible from the cove beaches below the cape.
Walking out to the lighthouse takes fifteen minutes from either the Playa del Cura side or the Playa Los Locos side, and the path along the cliff edge offers the best views of the full sweep of Torrevieja's coastline — the beaches to the south, the salt lake glinting in the distance, and on a clear day the faint outline of more headlands continuing up the Costa Blanca to the north. There is not much infrastructure here — no bars or facilities at the cape itself — which is part of the appeal. It is a brief reminder that the coast has shape and character beyond the sand.