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La Seu, Mallorca
"Time Out" Guide to Mallorca & Menorca
Mallorca and Menorca - two of Europe's most popular holiday resorts - are often unfairly maligned as overdeveloped package tour playgrounds. This guide seeks to redress the balance by revealing the variety to be found on these small islands.
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Walking in Mallorca
by June Parker
Includes both easy coastal walks and tough mountain trails for the experienced walker.
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Michelin The Green Guide : Spain
Michelin
This comprehensive and practical travel guide to Spain offers suggestions on what to see and what to do, backgound on history and culture of the country. It includes maps and itineraries, making the planning of trips easier.
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Walk! Mallorca (North & Mountains)
Davis Charles
This comprehensive walking guide book to the Tramuntana mountains and north of Mallorca includes GPS way points for pin-point navigational accuracy.
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Mallorca (Majorca)
Mallorca, or Majorca as it sometimes spelled, is the largest of the .
Most visitors to Mallorca arrive at Palma airport, Son Sant Joan about 7 miles (11kms) outside the city.
Palma itself is a sophisticated Mediterranean city built around a sheltered bay. As the Berlitz Guide says:
"with palm trees and bushes of fragrant oleander, outdoor cafes with colourful awnings, and yachts
bobbing in the bay among working vessels."
The city is dominated by La Seu, the great Gothic cathedral that took four
centuries to build begun in 1230 AD after Mallorca was captured from the Moors. It stands on the site
of the Great Mosque.
Mallorca geography
As one of the the Balearic islands, Mallorca is a continuation of a Spanish mountain chain known as the
Balearic Cordilleras. Over millions of years, earth movements have pushed these mountains up and down, at times providing
a land bridge with the Spanish mountains, at other times - as now - isolating them as islands
in the Mediterranean.
Mallorca is made up of three main regions:
- the Sierra de Tramuntana, a mountain range some 80kms long lying in a north-east to
south-west direction;
- the central plain, la pla, much of it made of bright red earth; and
- the Sierra de Levante hills of the south-east.
More Balearic articles
Travel guides are available through the following links:
More about the Mediterranean islands
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