Mallorca Marco Polo Guide (Marco Polo Guides)
Language: English
Pages: 156
ISBN: 3829706707
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Marco Polo Mallorca: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips
Experience all of Mallorca's attractions with this up-to-date, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun and feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination - that's what Marco Polo Guides are all about. You'll discover the best hotels, restaurants, trendy hang outs and night life plus shopping tips, suggestions for those on a tight budget, tips for travel with kids and ideas for sports and other activities. Also contains: the Perfect Route, Festival & Events, Travel Tips, Links, Blogs, Apps & more, Catalan phrase book and index.
Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, attracts all kinds of people: artists, pop stars, dropouts and even kings, but especially tourists. No other Mediterranean destination offers the variety of Mallorca. This practical, pocket-sized guide leads you to beautiful bays, long beaches, dramatic rocky coasts, sophisticated marinas as well as to numerous legacies of past powers and civilizations that have left their mark on the island. And of course Mallorca offers numerous attractions: water sports and mountain biking can be just as much a part of your holiday as great cuisine, hip beach bars and romantic sunsets.
The Insider Tips reveal where you can get that South Seas feeling and where you can seek out the island's culinary specialties. The Best Of pages highlight some unique aspects of Mallorca, recommend what to do for free, contain tips for rainy days and for where you can relax and unwind. The Perfect Route takes you right across the island, visiting traces of the past. You'll find out What's Hot on the island, whether the new sport of padel tennis (a cross between squash and tennis) or Catalan pop bands. The Trips & Tours chapter explores the coast along ancient smuggling trails and leads you right inland. Finally, the Dos & Don'ts point out some of the things you need to be aware of and watch out for when visiting the island.
MARCO POLO Mallorca provides comprehensive coverage of island. To help you get around there's a detailed road atlas inside, a useful folding map of Palma de Mallorca in the backcover, plus a handy pull-out map. A must-have for any traveller, including those who haven't bought a travel guide in the past.
offers (at the eastern end) two cafeterías and a small very basic hostal (Budget). Behind the resort, the little-frequented protected dune beach of Es Arenal stretches for some 2.5 km to Colònia de Sant Pere; there are no deckchairs or parasols available however. At the very end of the beach nudism is tolerated. A talaiot marks the access road at kilometre 14.2 on the road leading to Artà. DEIÀ Road Atlas [138 C5] | Google Map Over half of the 750 registered inhabitants of this picture-perfect
Major| near the church WHERE TO STAY AMAPOLA FINCA Finca hotel with pool and twelve very tastefully furnished suites and rooms; friendly hosts: breakfast is available up to midday! Our tip: the 80 m2 Amapola Suite boasts its own pool. On the country road to sa Rapita (Ma6030), km 2.3| tel. 9 71 65 02 44| http://www.finca-amapola.com| Moderate–Expensive FINCA ES FIGUERAL Google Map This stately farmhouse with swimming pool and many farm animals has been extended a fair few times, now
enjoy sweeping views across the heart of the island Sineu animal market Now every Wednesday: 700-year-old market ALGAIDA Road Atlas [149 E2] | Google Map The first thing both locals and tourists notice in the Plá’s largest municipality (pop. 4500) is the number of restaurants along the Ma15: it is not for nothing that Algaida is known as ‘foodie town’. The restaurants serve good Mallorcan cuisine in an old tradition: stagecoaches once stopped here. The town itself is rather unspectacular.
planned over the coming years. Save a lot on money on your golfing holiday with the Mallorca Golfcard for 99 euros (www.mallorca-golfcard.com). HIKING As nearly all paths on the island lead through private property it makes sense to join an organised group, or at least get hold of one of the many hiking guides in book form. There has been a lot of progress in the signposting of official hiking trails and in extending the network of refuges; eleven of them are already accessible. HORSERIDING
Cabrera. Add to this some 190 uninhabited islets. Today, nearly 1 million people live on Mallorca, of whom just under 400,000 are in Palma. Politically, the Balearics enjoy autonomy status (Comunitat Autónoma de les Illes Balears) in a federal-style system. The Govern Balear with 59 deputies makes policies for the entire Balearic archipelago; on top of that each island has its own government in the shape of a Consell Insular (island council). CELLERS This translates into ‘cellar’. However,