A Walk from Santa Eugénia

Santa Eugenia is located in the middle of the island, about 10 km north-east of Palma. This simple walk gives spectacular views for the minimum of effort. Leave the village of Santa Eugénia and head in the direction of the market town Santa Maria de Camí. After 1 km turn left along a narrow lane to Ses Coves.

The lane bends left, then descends, and you see Ses Coves ('the caves'), used at various times as pirate hideaways and wine cellars. One of them still contains an ancient wine-press. When the road divides, fork left. Soon you reach some iron gates at the entrance to a track on your right. After going through these gates you enter Puig d'en Marron, and climb until the road runs out. Continue along a track, keeping right at each fork, until you emerge onto a wide open plateau. Return to the iron gates by the same route and turn right along the lane. Follow this lane briefly uphill then take the second track on the left.

After passing an arched entrance to a well, turn immediately left through an orchard towards a house. To the right of the house, the wall is marked with a red dot; climb from here to a pass.  Here you can clamber over a stone wall to your left to reach the cross on the summit of Puig de Santa Eugénia. This is the high point of the walk, with wonderful views that stretch across the plain to the mountains in the distance. On the opposite clifftop is one of Mallorca's oddest sights - the cockpit of a broken-up plane.  Retrace your steps to the stone wall and then follow the path that leads through the bushes on your left. When you reach a tarmac road, turn right. The first left returns you to Santa Eugenia.

Distance: 7km. Time: 2 hours.