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 harassment 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 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.