Beaches reopen as Spain courts foreign tourists with health guarantee

FILE PHOTO: A couple takes a selfie while sunbathing on Las Canteras beach as some Spanish provinces are allowed to ease lockdown restrictions during phase two, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, island of Gran Canaria, Spain May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

MADRID (Reuters) - Swimmers and sun-bathers turned out in droves on Monday as Spain reopened nearly all its beaches for the first time in months and the government sought to revive a tourist industry brought to its knees by the coronavirus epidemic.

Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum also reopened its doors, the first such institution to do since the strict lockdown imposed on the country in mid-March began to be eased.