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Formentera end to end, in a day
Twenty kilometres of island, a lighthouse at each end and one road in between. How to cover it without turning it into a race.
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Formentera
Twenty kilometres of island, a lighthouse at the end of the road and the clearest water in the Mediterranean.
White-sand beaches, green lanes between fig trees and an island best covered slowly, by bicycle. Formentera, calmly.
The essentials
Where to begin
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Sleeping calmly in Formentera: the houses of quiet luxury
An island with no airport, six houses and none with more than eighty rooms. Where quiet luxury sleeps in Formentera, what each house offers and which suits your trip.
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Formentera before eleven: the famous beaches you get to yourself if you arrive first
Ses Illetes, Barbaria, Caló des Mort, la Mola. Formentera's postcard views have access controls from May to October, and they all reward the same thing: arriving early, on foot or by bicycle.
Diary
Don't miss
Food & drink
Semanas Gastronómicas: Formentera's cuisine, reinterpreted
12 October 2026 – 25 October 2026 · Participating restaurants across Formentera
For two weeks in October, participating restaurants serve a menu created for the occasion, inspired by Formentera's traditional cooking and made with local produce, at a fixed price. It's organised by the island's small and medium business association (PIMEF) with the Consell's tourism promotion department, and diners vote for their favourite menus. It's an excellent excuse to sit down to eat once the island belongs again to those who live there. It's worth checking the participating restaurants and booking at each one.
Joan Gené · Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0)
Town festivals
Virgen del Pilar, the October festival
12 October 2026 · Formentera
On 12 October, once the beaches have emptied, Formentera celebrates the Virgen del Pilar. It is one of the festivals that best explains the island out of season: it is held for those who live here, not for those who come to watch.
Jose A. · Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Nature & sport
The BTT La Mola, the mountain-bike weekend
17 October 2026 – 18 October 2026 · El Pilar de la Mola, Formentera
The thirty-second BTT La Mola is the mountain-bike race for those who want to compete, starting and finishing in El Pilar de la Mola, on the eastern plateau where the island's only serious incline is found, on an otherwise almost flat island. Saturday 17 is for the Bici Kids and Sunday 18 for the BTT La Mola. It appears in the Consell's official calendar.
Sections
All sections
Different ways of looking at this destination, all with judgement.
Discover
Twenty kilometres between two lighthouses: beaches, green lanes and very little else.
View allWhat's on
Festivals on fixed dates, starting with Sant Jaume, the island's own day.
View allEat & Drink
Fish, ensalada payesa and peix sec: a kitchen built on preserving.
View allLiving
Lifestyle, property and interiors. The island out of season, with the wind.
View allCulture
Fortified churches, houses built as refuges and two lighthouses: an island made of holding on.
View allGetting around
You can only arrive by boat, and a vehicle needs booking. Everything else, by bicycle.
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