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Menorca

Travel Guide Europe Spain Balearic Islands Menorca

Introduction

Menorca

Menorca, or Minorca, is one of the Balearic Islands. It is less touristy compared to the big neighbours Mallorca and Ibiza and is great place to combine culture, nature and beaches. About 90,000 people live on the island, which in 1993 was declared a Biosphere Reserve by Unesco to preserve areas like the Parc Natural S’Albufera d’es Grau wetlands and the island’s unique archaeological sites. Even in summer it is relatively quiet on the island and finding some secluded beaches is possible.

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Geography

Menorca's surface cover approximately 700 square kilometres and the coastline is about 216 kilometres long. It has beaches but also rocky territories, coves and cliffs. The highest point is El Toro or Monte Toro, which is 358 metres above sea level.

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Cities

Mahon - capital and largest city.

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Sights and Activities

Monte Toro for a fantastic panoramic view of the island.
Xoriguer Gin Distillery.
Museu de Minorca, located in a monastery, contains the earliest history of the island, the Roman and Byzantine eras and Muslim Minorca and there are paintings from recent times.
Placa Alfons III.
La Mola Fortress
Parc Natural S’Albufera d’es Grau - wetlands.
Industrias Artesanas
Secluded beaches

Son Bou beach - Menorca

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

Menorca has a typical Mediterranean climate with warm and dry summers and mild but relatively wet winters. Summers last from June to September when temperatures during the day average between 24 and 28 degrees Celsius with nights generally still above 20 degrees. Occasionally, temperatures can hit almost 40 degrees. Winters last from December to February with temperatures around 13 or 14 degrees Celsius and nights around 10 degrees. This is also the time when most rain falls, although autumn and spring have a good deal of showers as well and even summers can have some heavy showers now and then. Frost and snow are rare, but not unheard off during extreme times.

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Getting There

By Plane

Menorca Airport (MAH) offers a wide range of flights. Lowcost airline Easyjet provides flights to/from Bristol, Liverpool, London and Newcastle, though on a seasonal basis (usually April - October). This applies to most airlines mentioned here. TuiFly flies to Basel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart. Monarch Airlines and Jet2.com serve some British cities as well, including Manchester and Belfast. Air Berlin serves Berlin, Cologne, Zürich and Palma de Mallorca, Iberia fliest to Madrid, as does Spanair (also to Barcelona) and Swiss flies to Zürich as well.
Other airlines fly to/from Brussels, Amsterdam, Venice, Milan, Turin, Verona and a few other UK cities.

By Boat

Acciona Trasmediterránea, Balearia and Iscomar offers ferries connections between Menorca and both other Balearic Islands and onward connections to Spain as well.

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Getting Around

By Plane

By Train

By Car

By Bus

For an overview of schedules and connections, check thebusschedule.com.

By Boat

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Hi! Los Delfines	Urbanizacion Los Delfines Ciutadella	Hotel	-
Alberg Juvenil Sa Vinyeta	Cami Vell de sa farola, s/n Ciutadella de Menorca	Hostel	100
Apartamentos Roc Lago Park	C/ Alisos s/n Urb. Cala	Apartment	78
Apartamentos Roc Menorcamar	C/Illa del Rei, Urb. Cap de Artrutx-Ciutadella	Apartment	66
Apartamentos Roc Oasis Park	Avda. Des Pont den Gil s/n Cales Piques	Apartment	77
Hotel Cala Bona-Mar Blava	Avenida del Mar, 14	Hotel	100
Hi! Binimar Apartments	Avinguda des Pont d'en Gil Ciutadella	Apartment	78
Hi! Cala Blanca Hotel	Av. Ponent s/n Urbanizacion Cala Blanca - Ciutadella	Hotel	-
Hi! Marina Apartments	Final de la via de CircunvalaciÃ³n Urbanizacion Calan Bosch -Ciutadella	Apartment	-
Matchani Gran	Crta Binidali Km 1.5 Sant Climent	Guesthouse	-