Taste the flavours and the variety of Mediterranean cuisine prepared with local products from the island: fish and seafood, locally produced meat and fruit and vegetables from the gardens.
For dessert you have the famous ensaimada, a pastry cake in the form of a spiral and sprinkled with icing sugar.
About ten kilometres south of Cabo de Salines in Mallorca you’ll find the Cabrera archipelago, a unique natural area where the very essence of the Mediterranean remains almost intact and unchanged. It consists of 19 small islands and islets. The largest is Cabrera and they were all declared a Land and Marine National Park in 1991.
One of the most pleasurable activities on the island is to visit the openair fairs and markets to find typical local craft work and foodstuffs. You can take home a souvenir of your holiday while supporting local production. During the summer there are some very special events like the creative craft market in Es Castell, a pretty little fishing village near the entrance to the port of Mahón.
In the north of the island, in the sheer cliffs of the Port de San Miquel, you can visit the Can Marçà caves which date back over 100,000 years. You can take a guided tour and see an amazing collection of stalactites and stalagmites.
Before nightfall you can enjoy a magic sunset with soundtrack included. Enjoy a cocktail while you watch the sun set on one of the chill-out terraces in the coves around Sant Antoni de Portmany on the west coast. In the Playa d’en Bossa area you’ll also find a large number of beach bars, pubs and clubs.
You’ll find secret little hideaways full of delight: lagoons, dunes, salt pans, caves and woods full of juniper and pine trees. You can do it on foot, on horseback or by bicycle. There are 30 green routes, most of them accessible by bike which is perhaps the best way of exploring the approximately 19 kilometres from one end of the island to the other.
For those who love classical music there is the Ciutadella Summer Music Festival (Menorca), which is held in the cloisters of the seminary in the Church of El Socorro. Performers include famous operetta singers and the “Illa de Menorca” Chamber Orchestra.
In Mallorca, during the week of 20 January, you can participate in the festivals in honour of Sant Antoni and Sant Sebastià, the patron saints of Palma. The city is filled with music and activities for young and old alike. Special mention should go to La Revetla de Sant Sebastià (19 January), a night when there are concerts and bonfires in all the squares in the city.
Take a tour to the s’Albufera des Grau Nature Reserve, the green jewel of the archipelago. There are three routes for you to explore. You’ll see megalithic buildings, unspoiled beaches and cliffs, lagoons, farmland… And the wealth of fauna includes endemic species like the osprey and Lilford’s wall lizard.
Take your family up in a hot-air balloon. There are several interesting choices. One of these is to go up in one of the most beautiful balloons in the world: a Montgolfière which is an exact replica of the first balloon to fly in France in 1783.
