The Pine Walk
Puerto Pollensa’s famous Pine Walk stretches for approximately one mile around the beautiful bay of Pollensa. This pedestreanised walk way is shaded by the eponymous pine trees and lined by gracious mansions and weekend homes which have been passed down through generations of wealthy Mallorcans.
The beginning of the Pine Walk offers the visitor an array of cafes and restaurants to suit most tastes and budgets from traditional Spanish tapas to the fine dining with a French flavour or the Corb Mari restaurant – all a mere step away from the fine sandy beach, gentle laping of the warm Mediterranean sea and beguiling views across the bay. Wonderfully romantic in the evening as a rosy sun sets behind rugged mountains and a myriad twinkling lights are reflected in the limpid waters.
Approximately half way along the Pine Walk across the Formentor Road a signposted route will lead the visitor through the mountain-sheltered Boquer Valley, a favourite walk or ornithologists and botonists. The scrubby vegetation provides ideal cover for warblers, nightingales and other songbirds, whilst higher up red legged partridge, peregrine and kestrels are common. In spring and autumn eagles, ospreys, kites, falcons and buzzards have been spotted.
Back at the sea front, the Pine Walk meanders along the shore, small jetties affording closer inspection of the clear waters and silver fish which dash between the rocks.
This delightful walk finishes just past the elegant Hotel Ila D’Or – a lone colonial style hotel situated directly on the Pine Walk and past favourite of Agatha Christie.