FORMENTOR
Area: Majorca
Country: Spain


Location:
Sheltered, crescent-shaped bay, halfway along the Formentor Peninsula, a spectacular promontory with sheer grey cliffs rising 650 feet above the sea.

Telephone code from UK:
34

Description:
A famous hotel and a privileged group of private houses comprise Formentor, a loose grouping on a branch, » ml off the cape road. Surrounded by pine woods and rugged country of great natural beauty, this is an important location for the observation of migrant birds.

Suitability:
Wealthy bird-watchers, upmarket seclusion-seekers.

Accommodation:
Just the one hotel, occasionally visited by the rich and famous.

Shopping:
In Puerto de Pollensa.Nightlife: low-key, provided by the hotel.

Beach:
The Cala de Pi is a thin strip of fine sand backed by pine trees. Can be crowded with day-trippers.

Entertainments:
Nil.

Eating:
Four buses per day to Puerto de Pollensa from the road junction. Five daily ferries in season.

Public-transport:
Cape of Formentor; Pollensa and its port; Alcudia.

Local-excursions:
At the extreme N of the island, 44 miles NE of Palma on mainly good roads. 6» tortuously winding miles NE of Puerto de Pollensa.