![]() ![]() Mallorca tops Europe's summer holiday charts for many reasons, but one ranks above all others: the island's stunning coast. Summer is one long party and village festes (festivals) offer an appetising slice of island life. ![]() Spend silent moments among the olive, carob and almond groves and you'll soon fall for the quiet charm of Mallorca's hinterland. 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. Mallorca's culture took a back seat to its beaches for decades, but the tides are changing. 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. Cars conga along the coast in single file for views so enticing the resort postcards resemble cheap imitations. Wherever your journey takes you, Mallorca never fails to seduce. 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. For hikers and cyclists it is the Serra de Tramuntana's formidable limestone spires and bluffs. ![]() Lyrical Landscapesįor Miró it was the pure Mediterranean light. 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. ![]()
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