LOCATION
Menorca lies in the most easterly point of the Balearic Islands and, by extensión, of Spain. It is one of the four islands that make up the Balearic archipelago. It has a size of 704 square kilometres and between its coves and capricious nature it hoards the best attributes of the Mediterranean and Mediterranean culture that its hospitable people and their customs inundate.
Menorca has very good interior communications and everywhere is near at hand to be enjoyed. It also has an airport with very good accesses 15 minutes from Es Castell.

COVES
Cala Mitjana, Cala Mitjana, is a beach with celestial blue waters, very fine, white, soft sand. Cala Mitjana is enveloped in rocky walls but the cove is beautiful in itself. Crossing a thick pine forest that takes about a 20-minute walk, we will reach this jewel of the Mediterranean. It is a complete virgin development.
If there is any famous cove, not only for the number of visitors in Menorca, but also its beauty, then this is Macarellal and Macarelleta. This is a beautiful marina divided up into two coves forming a whale’s fin if observed from the air; it has light, fine sand on both sides and pine trees border the coast, running down almost into the sea, which is quite normal on these islands.
-Lastly Cala en Turgueta is one of the best-preserved coves. Here we can enjoy the water, sun, setting also scuba diving. The bay lies within a dense pine forest, with transparent waters, and like the other coves, it has very fine sand.

GASTRONOMY
There are three strong points in the Menorcan gastronomy: its good quality fish and lobsters, from Fornels; cheese from Mahón (high quality and recognised at national level for its tradition in the dairy industry; this cheese is prepared from cow’s milk and has rounded edges and borders obtained from the cloth that is used to tighten it, removing the whey during the processing) and gin (gin is different to the London Gin because here our gin is prepared from spirit obtained from the Mediterranean grape, and not from cereal). Gin is present in the islander’s daily life, drunk alone or mixed in one of our inventions: the “pomade”, that is obtained when mixing gin and very typical lemonade during the festivities of San Joan); there are other liquors worth mentioning: “palo”, gin and sweet and dry herbs, not forgetting the “frígola”.

TRADITIONS
The Menorca festivals, that are held consecutively, in the summer, in all the villages of Menorca, are based on the very ancient festivals of Sant Joan (23rd and 24th June), of Ciutadella. These, which are also the first to be held, have marked the pattern for the other villages on the island, that have adapted the festival to their specific features. The point in common of all the festivals in Menorca is the horse, that is also the central and main protagonist. These beautiful animals are bred in Menorca as own breed, the pure Menorcan stock.