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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Mallorca is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take a scenic drive on the sinuous road to Sa Calobra, visit the isolated Platja des Coll Baix, or gaze in wonder at the Palma Catedral -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Mallorca and begin your journey now!Inside Lonely Planet's Mallorca Travel Guide: Colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, landscapes, wildlife, architecture, arts, crafts, cuisine. Over 30 maps Covers Palma, Valldemossa, Deia, Soller, Fornalutx, Biniaraix, Pollenca, Alcudia, Inca, Arta, Cala Ratjada, Platja des Coll Baix, Cap de Formentor, Illa de Cabrera and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Mallorca, our most comprehensive guide to Mallorca, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. Looking for more coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Spain guide for a comprehensive look at what the whole country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. The world awaits! Lonely Planet guides have won the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

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Mallorca

Majorca

Majorque

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Publié par	Lonely Planet
Date de parution	01 juillet 2017
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781787010703
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	42 Mo

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Mallorca

Contents

Plan Your Trip

Welcome to Mallorca
Mallorca's Top 17
Need to Know
Accommodation
First Time Mallorca
If You Like
Month by Month
Itineraries
Eat & Drink Like a Local
Activities
Travel with Children
Regions at a Glance

On The Road

Palma & the Badia de Palma
Palma & the Badia de Palma Highlights
Palma de Mallorca
Sights
Activities
Courses
Tours
Festivals & Events
Eating
Drinking & Nightlife
Entertainment
Shopping
Badia de Palma
East of Palma
West of Palma
Cycling in Palma
Western Mallorca
Western Mallorca Highlights
The Southwest
Andratx
Port d'Andratx
Sant Elm
Portals Vells & Cap de Cala Figuera
Serra de Tramuntana
Andratx to Valldemossa Coast Road
Valldemossa
Port de Valldemossa
Deia
Soller
Port de Soller
Biniaraix
Fornalutx
Bunyola
Orient
Alaro
Cala de Sa Calobra & Cala Tuent
Monestir de Lluc
Road Trip: Andratx to Monestir de Lluc
Northern Mallorca
Northern Mallorca Highlights
Pollenca & Around
Pollenca
Cala Sant Vicenc
Port de Pollenca
Cap de Formentor
Badia dAlcudia
Alcudia
Port d'Alcudia
Cap des Pinar
South of Alcudia
Ca'n Picafort
Son Serra de Marina
Colonia de Sant Pere
Betlem
Hiking the Capes of Northern Mallorca
The Interior
The Interior Highlights
The Central Corridor
Santa Maria del Cami
Binissalem
Santa Eugenia
Inca
Lloseta
Caimari
Campanet
Sineu
Sa Pobla & Muro
The Southeast
Algaida
Montuiri
Petra
Manacor
Felanitx
Eastern Mallorca
Eastern Mallorca Highlights
The Northeast
Arta
Parc Natural de la Peninsula de Llevant
Capdepera
Cala Ratjada
Canyamel
Cala Millor to Portocolom
Cala Millor
Porto Cristo
Portocolom
Hiking the Eastern Coast
Southern Mallorca
Southern Mallorca Highlights
Cala Pi
Sa Rapita
Colonia de Sant Jordi
Ses Salines
Illa de Cabrera
Santanyi
Cala Figuera
Portopetro
Parc Natural de Mondrago
Cala d'Or

Understand

Understand Mallorca
Mallorca Today
History
Landscape & Wildlife
Mallorcan Architecture
Arts & Crafts

Survive

Directory AZ
Climate
Customs Regulations
Discount Cards
Electricity
GLBTI Travellers
Health
Insurance
Internet Access
Legal Matters
Maps
Money
Opening Hours
Post
Public Holidays
Safe Travel
Telephone
Time
Toilets
Tourist Information
Travellers with Disabilities
Visas
Volunteering
Women Travellers
Work
Transport
Getting There & Away
Getting Around
Language
Behind the Scenes
Our Writers
Welcome to Mallorca

The ever-popular star of the Mediterranean, Mallorca has a sunny personality thanks to its ravishing beaches, azure views, remote mountains and soulful hill towns.

Cala Llombards, Southern Mallorca | Vulcano/Shutterstock ©

Lyrical Landscapes
For Miró it was the pure Mediterranean light. For hikers and cyclists it is the Serra de Tramuntana's formidable limestone spires and bluffs. For others it is as fleeting as the almond blossom snowing on meadows in spring, or the interior's vineyards in their autumn mantle of gold. Wherever your journey takes you, Mallorca never fails to seduce. Cars conga along the coast in single file for views so enticing the resort postcards resemble cheap imitations. Even among the tourist swarms of mid-August you can find pockets of silence – trek to hilltop monasteries, pedal through honey-stone villages, sit under a night sky and engrave Mallorca's lyrical landscapes onto memory.

Return to Tradition
Mallorca's culture took a back seat to its beaches for decades, but the tides are changing. Up and down the island, locals are embracing their roots and revamping the island’s old manor houses, country estates and long-abandoned fincas (farmhouses, estates) into refined rural retreats. Spend silent moments among the olive, carob and almond groves and you'll soon fall for the quiet charm of Mallorca's hinterland. Summer is one long party and village festes (festivals) offer an appetising slice of island life.

Coastal Living
Mallorca tops Europe's summer holiday charts for many reasons, but one ranks above all others: the island's stunning coast. Beyond the built-up resorts, coves braid the island like a string of beads – each one a reminder of why the island's beaches have never lost their appeal. Go west for cliff-sculpted drama and sapphire seas, or head north for hikes to pine-flecked bays. Scope out deserted coves in the east, or dive off bone-white beaches in the south. With a room overlooking the bright-blue sea, sundown beach strolls to the backbeat of cicadas and restaurants open to the stars, you'll soon click into the laid-back groove of coastal living.

Mediterranean Flavours
Eating out in Palma has never been more exciting, with chefs – inspired as much by their Mallorcan grandmothers as Mediterranean nouvelle cuisine – adding a pinch of creativity and spice to the city's food scene. Inland, restaurants play up hale-and-hearty dishes, such as suckling pig spit-roast, to perfection, pairing them with locally grown wines. On the coast, bistros keep flavours clean, bright and simple, serving the catch of the day with big sea views.

Why I Love Mallorca
By Damian Harper, Writer
My parents did the right thing and bought a house in Fornalutx when I was four. Every summer spent in Mallorca was blissful: building camps with friends in the torrent, leaping from high rocks into the waters of the Port de Sóller, listening to the donkeys clop up the steps of Calle del Monte. Nowadays it's what I took for granted then that transfixes me most: the mesmerising night sky, the Tramuntana glowing like coals at sunset, the timeless terracotta hues of the stone houses and the deep azures of the Mediterranean. And each time I return, there's something else that enthrals me.
Mallorca's Top 17

Palma Catedral
Resembling a vast ship moored at the city’s edge, Palma Catedral dominates the skyline and is the island’s architectural tour de force. On the seaward side, the flying buttresses are extraordinary. A kaleidoscope of stained-glass windows and an intriguing flight of fancy by Gaudí inhabit the interior, alongside an inventive rendering of a biblical parable by contemporary artist Miquel Barceló. You’ll find yourself returning here, either to get your bearings, or simply to admire it from every angle.

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Top Experiences
Medieval Artà
Set back from eastern Mallorca’s busy summer coast, Artà has enduring year-round charms. Its stone buildings line narrow medieval streets that gently climb up a hillside before ascending steeply to one of the island’s most unusual church-castle complexes. The far-reaching views here are compelling, while back in town fine restaurants, hotels and an agreeably sleepy air make it an ideal base for your exploration of the island, including nearby Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant.

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Top Experiences
The Road to Sa Calobra
Even local drivers mutter three Hail Marys before braving the scenic helter-skelter of a road to Sa Calobra . It translates as 'The Snake' and slither it does, for all 12 brake-screeching, hair-raising, white-knuckle kilometres. Drivers teeter perilously close to the edge to glimpse a ravine that scythes through the wild, bare peaks of the Tramuntana to arrive at a sea of deepest blue. But if you think the looping hairpin bends are tough behind the wheel, spare a thought for the mountain bikers that grind it up here!

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Top Experiences
Staying on a Farm
Light years away from the busy coastal resorts, Mallorca's hinterland is sprinkled with fincas (estates) where it can be peaceful enough to hear an olive hit the ground. Whether endearingly rustic or revamped in boutique-chic style, properties such as Ca N'Aí take you that bit closer to the spirit of rural Mallorca. Days unfold unhurriedly here, with lazy mornings by the pool, strolls through olive groves and citrus orchards, and dinners under the stars to the tinkling of goat bells.

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Top Experiences
Palma's Art Trail
The crisp Mediterranean light drew some of Europe’s most respected painters throughout the 20th century, but two in particular – Joan Miró and Mallorcan Miquel Barceló – will be forever associated with the island. Miró’s former home, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró , contains a fine range of his works, while Barceló adorned Palma’s cathedral with flair and distinction. Elsewhere, works by Picasso and Dalí can be found in Palma’s galleries, Es Baluard, Palau March or the Museu Fundació Juan March.

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Top Experiences
Valldemossa
In any poll of the prettiest villages in the Balearics, Valldemossa is always a contender, if not outright winner. Draped like a skirt around the eastern foothills of the Serra de Tramuntana, the village has the usual Mallorcan cobblestone lanes, flowerpots, pretty church and stone architecture. But Valldemossa gains extra cachet with its former royal monastery, which once housed Frédéric Chopin and George Sand; aside from giving Valldemossa’s residents something to gossip about in perpetuity, their stay bequeathed to the town one of Mallorca’s most uplifting music festivals, Festival Chopin.

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Top Experiences
Deià
The mountains of Serra de Tramuntana rise like a natural amphitheatre above Deià , a bird's nest of a village perched high above the iridescent Mediterranean. Mallorca has countless pretty towns, but none surpass this peach: its gold-stone buildings climb a pyramid-shaped hill and glow like warm honey as day fades to dusk. It has long been the muse of artists and writers, not least the poet Robert Graves. Head to nearby Son Marroig, once the romantic abode of an Austrian archduke, to see the Mediterranean aflame at sunset.

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