Balearic Islands
Jewels of the Mediterranean, Islands of Enchantment
The Balearic Islands—Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera—float in the western Mediterranean like emeralds on silk. Beneath the tourist veneer lies a world of Talayotic stone towers older than the Pyramids, pirate legends, and a culture shaped by every civilization that ever sailed these waters: Phoenicians, Romans, Moors, Catalans, and British.