Menorca
The beautiful, rambling, whitewashed 200-year-old house and charming garden at Mesón El Gallo merit a visit for their own sake. Enjoy home-cooked tortilla, giant salads and speciality meat dishes (such as entrêcote with Mahón-DO-cheese sauce), grilled just as you like, on the vine-clad terrace or in the rustic interior with beams and terracotta floors. It's 2km southwest of central Ferreries.
Service can struggle a little in peak season. Book ahead.
Parc Natural S’Albufera des Grau
13.58 MILES
This freshwater lagoon and its shores form the ‘nucleus zone’ of Menorca’s protected Unesco Biosphere Reserve. It's a haven for wetland birdlife …
15.17 MILES
Built in the early 1800s for the prominent bourgeois Oliver family (who lived here until 1920), this magnificent mansion has been exquisitely restored…
16.07 MILES
At Menorca’s top winery, 500m northeast of Sant Lluís, you can amble around vineyards at your own pace, or book in a one-hour guided tour that concludes…
5.27 MILES
One of Menorca's most beautiful and sought-after coves, salt-white Cala en Turqueta gets its name from the turquoise-hued waters that tumble onto its…
8.99 MILES
Ciutadella’s main square is a gracious affair, framed by handsome 19th-century buildings like the neoclassical Palau Torre-Saura and fortress-like…
17.72 MILES
On the north side of Cala de Sant Esteve, 4km southeast of Maó, the Castell de Sant Felip was originally constructed in the 16th century and, under…
14.85 MILES
This 17th-century former Franciscan monastery has been a nautical school, a library, a high school, a children’s home and, now, Menorca's main museum. Its…
17.62 MILES
Britain occupied Menorca principally to gain possession of Maó’s deep natural harbour, captured by the Royal Navy in 1708, and built Fort Marlborough (5km…
2.92 MILES
Ah, bliss! Pine-brushed cliffs enshroud this silky sugar-white cove, set deep into a headland 7km southwest of Ferreries. Park in the free car park just…
3.13 MILES
About 7km southwest of Ferreries, the beach resort of Cala Galdana sits snugly around a pine-fringed, white-tinged horseshoe-shaped bay, marred by three…
4.05 MILES
An exquisite horseshoe bay on the southwest coast, with bleach-blonde sand, unbelievably turquoise water, a lone restaurant and cliffs cloaked in pines…
5.27 MILES
One of Menorca's most beautiful and sought-after coves, salt-white Cala en Turqueta gets its name from the turquoise-hued waters that tumble onto its…
6.02 MILES
This snow-white bay, 11km southeast of Ciutadella, is kissed by aquamarine waters and accessible only on foot, though that doesn't dampen its popularity…
6.21 MILES
Six kilometres east of Ciutadella, Menorca's best-preserved stone burial chamber was constructed around 1000 BC. The remains of over 100 individuals were…
6.31 MILES
Swing west from the Cavalleria headland to reach this curvy gold-sand beauty, which is backed by dunes, part of a marine reserve and considered one of…
6.34 MILES
The resort of Son Bou, 9km southwest of Alaior, boasts the island’s longest beach and most depressing development. Just beyond the beach’s eastern limit…