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Minorca sweet and savoury
It is almost, almost a secret. The secret kept by the inhabitants of the island of Minorca and which they reveal only when they are insistently asked about their favourite place on the island. The Albufera de Es Grau is this place, natural surroundings where salt water and fresh water blend together and share their stage with dunes, thick forests and wetlands. Now a Nature Park and located in the north-west of Minorca, hardly two kilometres from Mahón, Albufera de Es Grau stretches far. There are three routes around the Minorcan albufera, all one hour-long; the first starts from the village of Es Grau whereas the other two leave the Rodríguez Femenías R -
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The sunset’s soundtrack
There are sunsets with a soundtrack. They began more than 30 years ago in the Bay of Caló des Moro on the western coast of Ibiza, very near to San Antonio. Here the Café del Mar, a modernist bar on top of a cliff, opened to hold a ritual to see out the day and welcome in the night. Little by little word spread: a place created for a quiet drink, listening to the best chill out music and watching the sun go down. An idyllic place where some twenty hipsters, romantics and hippies met at the same time to pay homage to the sun god, which became popular in the 1990s. A record company was created that has sold millions of records around the world, mercha -
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Lebensgefühl & Leidenschaft
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Neolithic resort
Our ancestors were no fools: they liked the sea, good weather, nature and buildings with stunning views. In short, they liked the Balearic Islands. The thing about having a chalet on a paradise island may seem a relatively modern luxury and yet it was already practised in the Bronze Age on the islands of Majorca and Minorca. True, there were no kite surfing or diving instructors, but the men of the Bronze Age were smart enough to build their summer homes with all kinds of details. They called them 'talayots' and they were so carefully erected that they can still be seen at a dozen points of the island today. Circular and with a height of nine meters, their thick walls were ide