Heritage towns in Islas Baleares

A mountain village in the Serra de Tramuntana of Mallorca, built around a medieval Carthusian monastery where Frédéric Chopin composed and George Sand wrote, now a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.

A Mallorcan wine town with roots stretching back to the Talayotic era, whose late-18th-century mansions and stone parish church of Nostra Senyora de Robines earned it protected historic status in 1983.

A small stone village on Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana, shaped by Islamic water systems, medieval landowners, and centuries of pirate raids, its four defensive towers still standing today.

A small Mallorcan hamlet of 455 people whose old village core and late 16th-century church are protected monuments, and whose stone-paved gorge path is one of the most celebrated walks on the island.

A small hamlet in the flat interior of Mallorca, built on the site of a medieval Islamic farmstead beside the Solleric stream.

The ancient capital of the Balearic island of Ibiza, its UNESCO-listed walled hilltop quarter rising above a Phoenician-founded harbour occupied continuously for nearly three thousand years.

The main town of Ibiza's Santa Eulària municipality sits above the only river in the Balearic Islands, its hilltop fortified church — one of just five surviving on Ibiza — looking out over a coastline that has drawn visitors since the medieval quarton system divided the island between feudal lords.

The northernmost municipality of Ibiza, Sant Joan de Labritja spreads across four rural parishes above a coastline of secluded coves, its hilltop villages rising toward the island's highest ground.

A scattered rural parish on Ibiza's fertile red plain, where almond trees turn the landscape white every January and February and the old ways of the island survive largely intact.

A small village on Ibiza formed around a single parish church, with the Serra des Puig rising behind it and the cove of Cala Aubarca at its edge.

A small village at the centre of Ibiza, declared a zone of artisan interest and shaped around a late 18th-century church that survived civil war looting to remain the heart of the community.

The main town of Formentera, Sant Francesc Xavier gathers its churches, ethnological museum, and early twentieth-century village buildings around the island's oldest roads.

A small crossroads village at the centre of Formentera, shaped by salt flats, Civil War violence, and a 1960s hippie wave that made its Fonda Pepe famous across the world.

A hilltop hamlet on Formentera crowned by a lighthouse from 1861 and a stone-paved track old enough to be called a Roman road.