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Illa del Rei in Maó harbourLithica quarriesView from Monte ToroMuseu de MenorcaFavàritx lighthouse
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Menorca in winter: a weekend

A weekend designed for Menorca’s quiet winter, with everything that’s open from November to March: the Talayotic monuments with free entry, an unhurried Ciutadella, sunset from Monte Toro, the Illa del Rei on Sunday morning, the free Museu de Menorca and Favàritx lighthouse, which in winter you can drive to.

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Overview

Length
2 days
Spend in Menorca
€€ · €50–95 per person per dayTickets, activities and meals at the places we suggest, without accommodation or transport. It is separate from the price of the itinerary.
Getting around
By car
Effort
Very easyShort walks and drives of under an hour
Pace
Relaxed
Best time
November to March, Saturday to Sunday: that way the Illa del Rei (only on Sunday mornings in winter) and the Monte Toro bar (weekends) both line up. In December and January the sun sets around 17:30.

What you’ll get

  • Online itinerary

    Every day on your phone, stop by stop: times, how to get there and where to eat. Tick off what you’ve seen.

  • Interactive map

    Every place numbered in the order you visit it, with its card and how to get there.

  • Downloadable PDF

    The whole trip to carry offline: each day’s plan, place cards, transport and a rainy-day plan.

  • excursiaDiscover, enjoy, come back
    A 2-day itinerary around Menorca

    Menorca in winter: a weekend

    Saturday in the west and centre, Sunday in Maó and Favàritx: what’s open from November to March.

    2 daysEasy

  • Your trip at a glance

    Saturday in the west and centre, Sunday in Maó and Favàritx: what’s open from November to March.

    The days

    1. Day1Saturday: the west and the roof of the islandNaveta des Tudons · Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal · Ciutadella old town · Torre d’en Galmés · Monte Toro
    2. Day2

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  • Your trip on the map

    Each number is a place, in the order you visit it: you’ll find the same number on the day’s page and on its card.

    CiutadellaFerreriesEs MercadalAlaiorMaó1. Naveta des Tudons12. Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal23. Ciutadella old town34. Torre d’en Galmés45. Monte Toro5
    1. 1Naveta des Tudons
    2. 2Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal
    3. 3Ciutadella old town
    4. 4Torre d’en Galmés
    5. 5Monte Toro
    6. Day 2
    7. Day 2
    8. Day 2
    9. Day 2

    excursiaMenorca in winter: a weekend · 3

  • Day 1

    Saturday: the west and the roof of the island

    West and centre: Ciutadella, Alaior and Es Mercadal · About 90 km and 1 h 45 min of driving

    The naveta and the quarries, Ciutadella at midday, an empty Talayotic village and sunset on Monte Toro.

    09:30–10:15Morning

    1Naveta des Tudons

    The naveta with nobody around: in winter entry is free.

    10:30–12:15Morning

    2Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal

    The marès quarries in the low winter light, which brings out the carved walls.

    12:45–15:15Midday

    3Ciutadella old town

    The Born, the cathedral before it closes at one and Ses Voltes; then lunch in the old town.

    15:45–16:45Afternoon

    4Torre d’en Galmés

    The great Talayotic village of the south, without the heat and almost to yourself.

    17:00–18:00Sunset

    5Monte Toro

    Sunset from Menorca’s highest point with something hot at Sa Posada del Toro, and dinner in Es Mercadal on the way down.

    excursiaMenorca in winter: a weekend · 4

  • History and culture · Ciutadella de Menorca

    1Naveta des Tudons

    A collective tomb shaped like an upturned boat, used roughly between 1200 and 750 BC. It’s Menorca’s most emblematic prehistoric monument.

    Location
    Next to the Me-1 road, 5 km from Ciutadella
    Best time
    Morning
    Admission
    Time needed

    excursiaMenorca in winter: a weekend · 5

  • And in the full itinerary

    • 1 more day with its full plan
    • 9 place cards, with opening times and parking
    • How to reach every stop by car, bus or on foot
    • Where to eat and a plan for every rainy day
    • Useful phone numbers and the trip’s common questions

    Opening hours and access change every season: confirm them the day before.

Real pages of this itinerary. What you see in grey arrives in full when you buy.

Itinerary

A preview with 56% of the stops. How to get there, where to eat, the tips and the rest of the trip come when you buy.

Day 1Saturday: the west and the roof of the island

  1. Morning

    09:30–10:15

    Ciutadella de Menorca

  2. Morning

    10:30–12:15

    Ciutadella de Menorca

  3. Midday

    12:45–15:15

    Ciutadella de Menorca

  4. Afternoon

    15:45–16:45

    Alaior

  5. Sunset

    17:00–18:00

    Es Mercadal

1 more day included when you buy

With the plan for every stop, how to get there, where to eat, the rainy-day plan and a card for each place.

  • Day 2East: Maó, Es Castell and Favàritx4 stops

The places on the map

In green, the places of the preview. The grey ones, with a padlock, unlock when you buy: for now we only show you the area.

CiutadellaFerreriesEs MercadalAlaiorMaó1. Naveta des Tudons12. Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal23. Ciutadella old town34. Torre d’en Galmés45. Monte Toro5

Places you’ll visit

The places of the preview open their card; the rest unlock when you buy.

  • History and culture

    A collective tomb shaped like an upturned boat, used roughly between 1200 and 750 BC. It’s Menorca’s most emblematic prehistoric monument.

  • History and culture

    Old marès stone quarries turned into a visitor space with labyrinths, gardens and an amphitheatre carved into the stone. They explain how Menorca was built.

  • History and culture

    Menorca’s old capital: palaces, the Gothic cathedral, plaça des Born and the arcaded streets of Ses Voltes, all on foot within less than a kilometre.

  • History and culture

    One of the largest Talayotic villages in the Balearics, with three talayots, a taula enclosure, houses and a water-collection system. It has a visitor centre.

  • Charming places

    Menorca’s highest point (358 m), in the centre of the island. At the top are the sanctuary of the Virgin of El Toro and a viewpoint from which you can see almost all of Menorca.

  • History and culture

    Place included when you buy

    Day 2 · East: Maó, Es Castell and Favàritx

  • History and culture

    Place included when you buy

    Day 2 · East: Maó, Es Castell and Favàritx

  • History and culture

    Place included when you buy

    Day 2 · East: Maó, Es Castell and Favàritx

  • Charming places

    Place included when you buy

    Day 2 · East: Maó, Es Castell and Favàritx

What’s included

  • A plan for every day with approximate times, from morning to night
  • Online itinerary to mark each place as visited during your trip
  • Interactive map with every place numbered in the order of the route
  • Downloadable PDF with every detail, to use offline too
  • How to get from one stop to the next: time, distance, parking and bus
  • Several places to eat in each area, in case one is full
  • An indoor alternative for rainy days
  • Summer and winter opening hours and access restrictions
  • A card for each place with the day and time of your visit, car parks and bus lines
  • What’s open and what’s closed in winter at every stop

How it works

  1. Choose the itinerary and pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. No account needed.
  2. Once the payment is confirmed you see it on screen and get it by email: the link to your online itinerary, with the map, and the PDF.
  3. During the trip, open it on your phone and mark each place as visited. The PDF works offline.
  • Arrives instantly, on screen and by email, as soon as the payment is confirmed
  • Secure payment with Stripe: we never see your card
  • No account: your link works on any device

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The Naveta des Tudons, a stone building shaped like an upturned boat

History and culture · Ciutadella de Menorca

Naveta des Tudons

A collective tomb shaped like an upturned boat, used roughly between 1200 and 750 BC. It’s Menorca’s most emblematic prehistoric monument.

A 3,000-year-old tomb

Navetas are funerary buildings unique to Menorca. The Naveta des Tudons has two floors, and the remains of more than a hundred people and their grave goods were found inside.

It is part of Talayotic Menorca, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023.

Practical information

Municipality
Ciutadella de Menorca
Location
Next to the Me-1 road, 5 km from Ciutadella
Best time
Morning
Time needed
30–45 minutes.
Admission
May to October, €2 (free on Mondays). November to April, free.
Opening hours
From May to October, with a ticket (€2 adults; free on Mondays). From November to April, free entry.
Facilities
No bar or shop.
Accessibility
A flat 500-metre earth path from the car park, fine with a pushchair.
What to bring
Water and a cap: there is no shade.
By car
From Ciutadella, 8 min (5 km) along the Me-1. Parking by the road and a 500 m walk.
Parking
Free parking by the road and a 500 m walk
By bus
There is no stop at the naveta: take a taxi from Ciutadella (about 10 minutes).
Vertical walls of marès stone in the s’Hostal quarry

History and culture · Ciutadella de Menorca

Lithica, Pedreres de s’Hostal

Old marès stone quarries turned into a visitor space with labyrinths, gardens and an amphitheatre carved into the stone. They explain how Menorca was built.

Menorca’s stone

Marès is the sandstone used to build houses, churches and walls all over the island. At s’Hostal you see the old quarries, dug by hand, and the modern ones, cut by machine.

The Líthica association has turned the quarries into gardens and walking routes. Allow 1 h 30 min.

Practical information

Municipality
Ciutadella de Menorca
Location
Camí Vell de Maó, km 1, 10 minutes by car from Ciutadella
Best time
Morning or late afternoon
Time needed
1–2 hours.
Admission
€8 online or €9 at the ticket office; under-12s free.
Opening hours
From April to October, Monday to Saturday 9:00 to sunset and Sundays 9:00 to 14:00. From November to March, 9:00 to 14:00. Last entry an hour and a half before closing. Tickets €8 online or €9 at the ticket office; under-12s free.
Facilities
Toilets and a small shop selling water at the entrance.
Accessibility
The main paths are easy, but the quarries have steps and uneven paths: not fully accessible.
What to bring
Water (the route is long), a cap and comfortable shoes.
By car
From Ciutadella, 10 min along the Camí Vell de Maó (km 1). Free parking.
Parking
Free car park
By bus
No stop nearby: take a taxi from Ciutadella or walk 30 minutes from the ring road.
Façade of Ciutadella cathedral on the cathedral square

History and culture · Ciutadella de Menorca

Ciutadella old town

Menorca’s old capital: palaces, the Gothic cathedral, plaça des Born and the arcaded streets of Ses Voltes, all on foot within less than a kilometre.

What to see

Plaça des Born, with its obelisk and the town hall on the walls; the cathedral, built on the site of the old mosque after the Catalan conquest of 1287; and the Ses Voltes arcades, full of shops.

From the Born you walk down to the harbour, where many of the town’s restaurants are.

Tip

On rainy days, Ses Voltes and the cathedral let you carry on your visit under cover.

Practical information

Municipality
Ciutadella de Menorca
Location
Ciutadella town centre, between plaça des Born and the cathedral
Best time
Morning or from 18:00 in summer
Time needed
2–3 hours.
Admission
Free; so is the cathedral, during its visiting hours.
Opening hours
Cathedral (free visit): 8:00 to 13:00 and 18:00 to 20:00; no tourist visits on Sundays and public holidays.
Facilities
Bars, restaurants, shops and chemists all over the centre.
Accessibility
A fairly flat pedestrian centre with cobbled streets; the Ses Voltes arcades give shade.
What to bring
Comfortable shoes and, in summer, a hat for the middle of the day.
By car
From Maó, 50 min (45 km) along the Me-1. Park on the ring roads (Contramurada): the centre is pedestrian.
Parking
Car parks on the ring roads (Contramurada); the historic centre is pedestrian
By bus
Line Maó–Ciutadella every 30 minutes (and the non-stop Express Bus). The station is a 10-minute walk from the Born. Bus timetables: Island bus lines
Stone columns and slabs of the houses in the village of Torre d’en Galmés

History and culture · Alaior

Torre d’en Galmés

One of the largest Talayotic villages in the Balearics, with three talayots, a taula enclosure, houses and a water-collection system. It has a visitor centre.

The village

It sits on a small hill overlooking the south of the island. It was inhabited from the end of the Bronze Age until Roman times.

It’s best to start at the visitor centre and then explore the village at a gentle pace: an hour is enough.

Practical information

Municipality
Alaior
Location
5 km south of Alaior
Best time
Morning or late afternoon in summer (there’s little shade)
Time needed
1 h 30 min – 2 hours.
Admission
€3 (reduced €1.80; under-8s free). November to Easter, free.
Opening hours
In high season, with a ticket (in summer, 10:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00). From November to Easter, free entry. Check the visitor centre’s hours before you go.
Facilities
Interpretation centre and picnic tables. No bar.
Accessibility
Part of the route is suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs; the rest is uneven stone and earth.
What to bring
Water, a cap and closed shoes: there is very little shade.
By car
From Alaior, 10 min (5 km) towards Son Bou. Free parking next to the visitor centre.
Parking
Free parking next to the visitor centre
By bus
No bus goes there. The Son Bou bus passes about 2 km away: better by car or taxi.
View from Monte Toro over the fields of central Menorca and the village of Es Mercadal

Charming places · Es Mercadal

Monte Toro

Menorca’s highest point (358 m), in the centre of the island. At the top are the sanctuary of the Virgin of El Toro and a viewpoint from which you can see almost all of Menorca.

The roof of Menorca

The Franciscan sanctuary was built from 1670 on the site of an old Gothic church. From the terrace you can see Fornells bay, the north coast and, on clear days, Mallorca.

The road up is narrow and winding: take it slowly.

Practical information

Municipality
Es Mercadal
Location
3 km from Es Mercadal along the Me-13 road
Best time
First thing in the morning or sunset, with a clear sky
Time needed
45 minutes.
Admission
Free.
Opening hours
The drive up and the sanctuary are free. The Sa Posada del Toro bar-restaurant opens daily from 1 May to 31 October and only at weekends from November to March.
Facilities
Sa Posada del Toro bar-restaurant (daily May to October; weekends only November to March) and the sanctuary shop.
Accessibility
You drive right to the top and the viewpoint terrace is flat.
What to bring
A jacket: it is cooler and windier up there.
By car
From Es Mercadal, 10 min (3 km) along the Me-13, narrow and winding. Free parking at the top.
Parking
Free car park at the top
By bus
The Maó–Ciutadella bus stops in Es Mercadal. From there, a taxi or a 1-hour uphill walk. Bus timetables: Island bus lines

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