The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Spain
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2025-05-06T16:09:50+00:00

The Badía d’Alcúdia

The wide arc of the Badía d’Alcúdia is framed to the east by the mountains of the Massis d’Artà headland (see page 139) and in the west by the rugged Alcúdia peninsula, whose further recesses hold a fine old chapel, the Ermita de la Victòria, and the idiosyncratic private art collection of the Museu Sa Bassa Blanca. The peninsula also boasts some spectacular mountain scenery and this can be sampled on the four-hour hike we have described (see page 126), though you will need a car to get to the trailhead. In between these mountainous flanks lies the mega-resort of Port d’Alcúdia, whose glistening sky-rises sweep around a glorious sandy beach – arguably the island’s best. In summer the resort is packed, but shoulder seasons are more relaxing and the beach comparatively uncrowded. Port d’Alcúdia’s assorted hotels, villas and apartment blocks stretch around the bay to the resort of Ca’n Picafort, 10km away, almost without interruption. The developers drained the swampland that once extended behind this coastal strip years ago, but one chunk of wetland has been protected as the Parc Natural de S’Albufera, a real birdwatchers’ delight. Further behind the coast lies a tract of fertile farmland dotted with country towns, among which Muro, with its imposing church and old stone mansions, is easily the most diverting.

Getting around Badía d’Alcúdia

By bus From April to October, a flotilla of buses links Port d’Alcúdia (see page 126) with all the neighbouring towns and resorts, including Muro, Pollença, Port de Pollença, and Alcúdia, as well as Palma. In the wintertime, services are scaled right back – and there are no bus services at any time of the year along the northern edge of the Alcúdia peninsula to the Ermita de la Victòria. There is also a useful seasonal bus service along the north coast from Alcúdia to Port de Pollença, Pollença Lluc, Sóller and Port de Sóller (April–Oct 4 daily).

By train Regular trains connect Palma with Muro (see page 128), though Muro train station is 2.5km west of the town centre – a 20min walk; there are plans to extend the rail line to Alcúdia from its present terminus in Sa Pobla, but nothing has happened yet.

The Alcúdia peninsula

The Alcúdia peninsula, a steep and rocky promontory to the east of Alcúdia town, pokes a wild finger out into the ocean, its northern shore traversed by a country road that begins at the easternmost intersection of Alcúdia’s ring road. After about 2km, this promontory road runs past the turning for both the Museu Sa Bassa Blanca (see page 124) and the day-hike trailhead (see page 126) before it loops round the suburban villas of Mal Pas-Bon Aire. Thereafter, the road emerges into more scenic terrain, offering fine sea views as it struggles over the steep, pine-clad ridges that fringe the coast on the way to the Ermita de la Victòria.

Ermita de la Victòria

Perched on a wooded hillside, about 5km from Alcúdia town, the chunky, fortress-like Ermita de la Victòria was built in the seventeenth century to hold and protect a crude but much-venerated statue of the Virgin.

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