Menorca, Spanish paradise
Clean, calm, elegant, worthy. A refuge felt and a pleasure for the spirit. Thus it is Menorca. That island that all the travellers someday we dreamed. That beach destiny where, without being amassed by the tourism, we pruned to take our car and to lose us by the highways, stops from her, to see a small cove, calm and separated, where to have left we and to enjoy the calm that breathes in all the island and of its immense and calm waters turquesa color. Menorca already was historically the refuge of many boats that journeyed in their commerce by the Mediterranean, but not always had the calm that it has now. By its situation, Menorca, an island that emphasizes by its talayótica culture, received in its coasts to Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Muslims. And it was indeed, after treaty of Utrecht, in year 1708, when when to happen to hands English, reached his maximum splendor, because they equipped it with a great part of the image of which it is conceited nowadays, aside from fortifying it of the harassments defensively to that she was put under habitually by the piracy. Menorca, that on the contrary that Majorca and Ibiza, is much more level, has very different landscapes between the north and the south. The north is much more rustic and emphasizes by its cliffs, by its dark sand beaches, their greenish sea. The south, on the other hand, is much more calm, whiter, relajante, with coves of white sand and waters of a blue spectacular turquesa. In the South it is where we were the greater samples of that prehistoric culture that so many signals, in form of taulas and talayots, left by all the island, between which it emphasizes, mainly the shuttle of Tudons, the funeral monument more antigüo of Europe.
And what better than to begin the day with the first lights, going out of Mahón, so sober, so calm, so calm. Meteros the hands in the pockets, and you enjoy a calm stroll when still the life has not made formal appearance in its streets. You observe the first lights of the day being reflected in its white and clean facades. You enjoy its great port, impeccable, and how no, of its baroque and neoclassic buildings, like the City council, or the churches of the Conception, Santa Maria or San Francisco. And, finally, you walk the street Isabel II and you do not leave a detail of the facades of its satately houses. Tomaros a coffee in its streets, always with relax that this island requires, and, without a fixed destiny, dirigiros to the car for perderos by the coasts of the island, in search of the dreamed cove where to enjoy a good bath in good company. Because Menorca requires that. To have a car, and to be we ourself, those that without map some, we discover the many corners that this island provides to us. Those are only 50 kilometers that the east of the west of the island separates. In fact, only 44 kilometers separate their two main cities, Mahón de Ciudadela. And the señera highway to cross it is Camí d’ in Kane who arrives until Is Mercadal, leaving to the sides quiet landscapes, of white satately houses, with hills of the Tramuntana to the north and the plains of the Migjorn to the south. And in the way, to visit the cemetery of Alaior, so recoleto and beautiful, or Monte Toro, of 357 meters of altitude, a good viewpoint to upper obervar the island from its point. But they are the coves that we are leaving left and right those that will center our attention. Without a doubt, we will find some that fulfills our dreams, calm tapeworm and. Sometimes almost he is better to walk the coast until finding it, but even so, the known ones are worthy to visit because even though we did not prune to be single in her, conserve a special enchantment. Thus, for example, Cala Macarelleta is an authentic luxury. At her it is only possible to be arrived walking from the Macarella cove or, by sea. It is a small white sand beach, framed by small cliffs that protect it and reserve of the Vista of the tourism, and to that get to rest the smooth waves of the Mediterranean. It is an authentic backwater of peace. They are Saura, for example, is another almost inaccessible cove, with two small fine sand beaches separated by one thick vegetation. They say those of the place, that is the most beautiful beach of all Menorca. Or Cala in Turqueta, whose pine groves practically arrive until he himself sea. The coves of the north for example, are much more rustic and wild, with a much more greenish sea, and escarped projections more. The cliffs abound, and what it would not be necessary to let see is the end of Faváritx, whose feet always the wild sea breaks. This end has been comprising of the Natural Park of S’ Lagoon DES Grau, the nucleus of the Reserve of the Biosphere and so was name Menorca for years. nor to forget the visit after Cavallería either
And to finish the day, the best thing is to see the dusk in the port of Ciudadela. Enjoying good refrigerio in the barecitos that there are in the marine stroll, next to the port, on the foot of his antigüa wall, where one shows the bastion of the Born and the City council. Colorful and the monumentalidad of this city becomes spectacular still more with the decline of the day. Its italianizados palaces, or their great full gothic Cathedral of gargoyles is worthy of visit. We need to close the day with a good food, and what better than to prove the classic Small boiler of Lobster and the cheese of Mahón, with honey and romero. Fornells is the ideal place for a good supper next to the coast. The soup of fish, and, of course, sobrasada and carn i xua (inserted) are other typical elements of the menorquina gastronomy. Like véis, Menorca must to dedicate a good time to him, because it combines the monumentalidad of his two main cities, Ciudadela and Mahón, with the Balearic typical architecture of his small towns, like Binibeca Vell, precious, with spectacular beaches and a relaxed and healthy atmosphere. Menorca is the one and jewel Balearic of jewels of all Mediterranean.
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