Palma de Mallorca is such a convenient base that many visitors never travel beyond the promenade and the old town, yet some of the island’s most memorable places sit only thirty to fifty minutes...
Palma de Mallorca Airport, known by its code PMI and officially named Aeroport de Son Sant Joan, is one of Spain’s busiest gateways and the arrival point for the vast majority of visitors to the...
Mallorca’s east coast runs from the show caves above Porto Cristo down through a string of resort towns and hidden coves to the wild dunes of Cala Mondragó, and it rewards visitors who go beyond...
A road trip is the only way to see all of Mallorca properly, and this circular route takes in almost every corner of it. Starting and finishing in Palma, the loop runs along the dramatic Tramuntana co...
The north of Mallorca feels like a different island from the busy south coast resorts, and that is exactly its appeal. Alcúdia anchors the region with a walled Roman-era old town and a long, family-fr...
Mallorca has a reputation as an island you need a hire car to enjoy properly, and for parts of it that reputation is fair. But the reputation obscures a genuinely useful public transport system that c...
Long before most travellers picture Mallorca for anything beyond its beaches, road cyclists have quietly claimed it as one of Europe’s finest testing grounds. Professional teams have used the is...
Mallorca is the busiest ferry hub in the Balearic Islands, and its ports connect the island both to mainland Spain and to its island neighbours. Two ports handle almost all of that traffic: the Port o...
The Sóller Train (Ferrocarril de Sóller) is a genuine working railway rather than a theme-park replica, and its century-old wooden carriages still climb from Palma up into the Serra de Tramuntana on t...
Mallorca has more than 200 official beaches and coves along its coastline, so picking a genuine shortlist from that number is no small task. This guide is the dedicated beach roundup for the whole Mal...
Plenty of people still picture Mallorca as Ibiza’s quieter, older sibling: a package-holiday island of pool bars and airport transfers. That picture survives on a narrow strip of coastline, whil...
Palma de Mallorca rewards visitors who give it more than an afternoon between flights and beach days. The city’s compact old town, seafront promenade and contemporary art scene all sit within ea...
The Serra de Tramuntana is the mountain range that runs along Mallorca’s entire northwest coast, from Andratx in the south to the Formentor peninsula in the north. UNESCO listed the range as a W...
