Catalan mountaineering has made history. Bru Busom, Marc Toralles and Rubén Sanmartín have been awarded a Piolet d’Or, the most prestigious international recognition in mountaineering, for the opening of The essence of commitment, a new route on the east face of Yerupajá (6,634 meters), in the Peruvian Andes. It is the first award of this category granted to a Spanish ascent, a milestone that vindicates the exploration, autonomy and commitment of this route.

The Palma Mountain Film Festival will celebrate its 17th edition from October 19th to 27th with nine days of cinema, adventures, and reflection on the landscapes and challenges of the mountains. The program includes the world premiere of Hatua, about Mix Manresa's expedition to Kilimanjaro with an adapted bicycle, the presentation of the ascent of Yerupajá by alpinists Marc Toralles and Bru Busom, and a look at the Serra de Tramuntana through the eyes of two Majorcan filmmakers.

Motorcycles flying at the Parc de la Mar in front of the Cathedral. Palma City Council has presented the third edition of the SoloFlow Freestyle Ciutat de Palma, which will take place on October 10th, starting at 8:00 PM, at the Velòdrom Illes Balears. During the presentation event, which took place at the Parc de la Mar, an exhibition was offered as a preview of the show.

On this route, we explore the east of the lesser Pitiusa island, through paths and trails that traverse dizzying cliffs, old quarries, and a lighthouse with a long history. All in all, an immense cultural landscape that we can only perceive in its fullness through our steps and our gaze. Formentera has a human dimension and a leisurely pace that can only be discovered when traveling on foot and without haste. This is how we discover that near the La Mola lighthouse, at an altitude of 118 meters facing the immense Mediterranean, a monument was erected in 1978 in honor of the French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905), on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth. We do not have his visit to the Balearic Islands documented, despite the strong friendship he maintained with Archduke Luis Salvador, whom he had met in the summer of 1884 in Venice. Be that as it may, The Mysterious Island (1875), Off on a Comet (1877), and The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1901) seem to have, as noted by Nicolás J. Moragues in his book Jules Verne and the Balearic Islands (Edicions Talaiots, 2015), a clear and direct inspiration in the geography and heritage of Formentera through the reading of the Archduke's Die Balearen.

In this route we explore the only viable path to descend from Ferreries to Cala Galdana, the Torrepetxina staircase. A well-known traditional itinerary of Menorcan hiking, the path allows overcoming the unevenness of the rocky walls of the ravine, connecting the inland area with the valley floor. The origin of this path is historical and purely livestock and agricultural. The Algendar ravine has been, since the era of Arab rule and the Middle Ages, one of the most fertile areas of the island thanks to its permanent water stream. The orchards at the bottom of the ravine needed to be connected to the places on the upper part of the rocky platform, such as the Torrepetxina site. Hence the existence of this route, given that the traditional one, which starts from the same clearing of the monumental holm oak of the Algendar ravine, has been closed for years.

Enric Mas did not have to wait to return to Mallorca to feel the love of his people. Family, friends, and numerous neighbors from Artà traveled this Sunday to Granada to accompany the cyclist in the final stage of the Vuelta and celebrate with him the first grand tour of his career.

In this itinerary, we explore the surroundings of Santa Eugènia to travel along part of its oldest road network and discover some of the most representative villages of the municipality, Les Coves and Les Olleries, for their history and heritage. Almost unpublished corners that can only be experienced and perceived on foot, with all five senses. If a few weeks ago we were in the northeastern part of the town to visit Les Alqueries, today we move to the almost opposite side, with the intention of traversing the paths and landscapes that make up a part of the most significant Taujà cultural landscape. We are located in the Pla de Mallorca region, between the municipalities of Sencelles, Algaida, Palma, Santa Maria del Camí, and Consell.

In this itinerary we explore the beginning of the Artà-Lluc route, the GR 222. A long-distance trail – one of the four existing in the Balearic Islands – that proposes to link the Llevant mountains and the natural park with the central area of the Tramuntana mountain range, declared a world heritage site by Unesco in the category of cultural landscape. Along the way we find a great variety of environments, some of great uniqueness, such as the almost virgin coast of the Llevant peninsula, the dune areas of the Bay of Alcúdia and the terraced slopes of the Caimari mountains.

On this route we travel to the southern tip of the island of Mallorca, which is also the driest area of Mallorcan geography. The idea is to take a walk along the Llubi coast of Sa Vallet, an old subdivision of La Vall, owned by the Marquis of Palmer, which in 1919 the banker Joan March bought, between the Ses Salines lighthouse and Cala en Tugores, on the border of the municipality of Santanyí with Ses Salines. A place where the atmosphere of smuggling, traditional fishing practices in the area, and the past imprint of the fight against piracy can be felt, as well as the bunkers of the Civil War and, in the background, Cabrera (an archipelago of stories related to the hard life of the Mediterranean). We find a numerous toponymy here, mostly collected by the philologist Cosme Aguiló Adrover (Santanyí, 1950) in his doctoral thesis published in 2007. Place names collected by tearing shoe soles, because it is only by walking in the company of oral sources that this treasure is discovered, which is a very valuable intangible heritage of our land. All the information presented in this article comes from the immense work of our friend and teacher from Santanyí. We start the walk from the Ses Salines lighthouse, which is reached by the Ma-6110 road, a branch of the road that connects Ses Salines and Llubi (Santanyí).

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has provisionally suspended Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios after he tested positive for cocaine in an anti-doping control carried out in June during the Mallorca Championships.

The following route is a long but quiet walk between the town of Artà and the hermitage of Betlem. A linear itinerary that crosses one of the most intense cultural landscapes of the gregal of the island of Mallorca: paths and estates with history, such as Son Sureda and Can Canals, which in Muslim times constituted the farmstead of Benimira; narrow and elongated scrublands with an interesting and very fragile natural heritage; a beautiful and interesting toponymy that reveals uses, customs, and legends closely linked to the territory, such as the rock of the hermit Macari and the military observatory of La Coassa. As always, we recommend using public transport for our trips. To get to Artà, we have the following lines: L-325 Alcúdia-Cala Ratjada; L-411 Cala Rajada-Manacor; L-411e Cala Rajada-Palma; and L-421 Colònia de Sant Pere-Artà. On the website ‘tib.org’ you will find all the information on timetables and availability of each line.

He has lived in Andorra for years, a usual location among professional cyclists for altitude training camps. Likewise, he maintains lifelong friends with whom he started cycling. The group of friends assures that in short distances he is practically the same as when he was a child: “Approachable, fun, and very natural”. However, he has always been “very private about his intimacy”: “He doesn't like interviews and cameras at all, and if he can avoid them, he does”, tells us Joan Danús, one of the childhood friends of professional cyclist Enric Mas (Artà, 1995).

Joan Castelló Guasch collected in Rondaies de Formentera (1976) the story of two sisters who “if one was envious, the other was even more so; and ill-spoken, which is not for saying.” The drama began when, after the mother's death, instead of making the eldest heir, as was customary, and leaving 'her rightful share' to the youngest, she divided everything – property and houses – equally between the two. Every now and then they had fights and arguments, each time more inflamed. “Well, you'll see that one day when the dispute was more heated than ever, the youngest let loose in a bad way. And she ended up saying to the eldest: ‘May you have a bad end, and your property too.’ ‘What you wish for, may you have!’, she replied”. In the end, a large and strong wave swept everything away. It submerged the property from top to bottom, burying houses and sisters and everything under the water.

The following proposed itinerary is a long walk through the south of the municipality of Maó, along old, narrow paths, between dry stone and history. Stretches of sinuous freshness, beauty, and authenticity. We start from the hermitage of Gràcia, patron saint of the city which has been, since the 18th century and by British imposition, the capital of Menorca. The intention is none other than to go around the Maó hamlet of Llucmaçanes, a small urban nucleus of 179 inhabitants, headed by the modern church of Sant Gaietà, from the end of the 19th century, and a series of small, orderly houses. “The first news of the existence of a settlement in Llucmaçanes dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when there was talk of a concentration of small properties where vines were cultivated and wine was made. The name of the nucleus is older and would originate in Roman times, in an elocution that presents us with a place with an abundance of fruit trees, mainly apple trees. In 1860, the urban census shows us the existence of 43 houses and a hundred inhabitants. The first urban plan is from 1889 and four streets and the Plaça de Sant Gaietà are projected there.” (Maó, “Guide to the Municipalities of Menorca”, Josep Portella Coll. Hora Nova, 2007).

Les Alqueries is a beautiful hamlet in the municipality of Santa Eugènia, located on the northeast side of the village and crossed by an old transhumance route, the Camí de Muntanya. From the Middle Ages until the early 20th century, the mountain paths allowed the passage of the herds from the large estates that spent the summer in the mountains (estivada) and the winter in the lands of the Pla and Migjorn (hivernada) of Mallorca.

If we adhere to the definition given by the dictionary, a viewpoint is a lofty place from which one can look and see a large expanse of terrain. This is the case for the main objective of our route: an itinerary around Esporles and the hermitage of Maristel·la through old bridle paths, charcoal burner huts, and a long and extensive road and hydraulic infrastructure for the exploitation of mountain forests, which should lead us to the 'secret' viewpoints of Son Ferrà. Popularly attributed to the neighboring estate of Son Poquet, these two historical spaces are located a few meters from the wall that marks the division between both properties. The confusion arises because it is from these points that the aforementioned estate houses are best glimpsed. The walk will also take us through the hermitage of Maristel·la and the viewpoint of Cor de Jesús, a heritage of a recent and well-documented history of the 'contemplative' life of Esporles. If we want to use public transport to approach the start of our walk, the L-202 (Estellencs-Palma) is the best option. On the website tib.org, you will find all the necessary information about schedules and availability of the line.

Located in the Fontanelles massif, Puig de la Pega, 403 m high, is the point where the villages of Sant Rafel de sa Creu, Sant Jordi de ses Salines, and Sant Josep de sa Talaia meet; at its summit there is a geodetic vertex where previously there had been a boundary marker placed at the end of the 18th century that marked the division between the quartons of Portmany, Algarb, and Alhaueth; for which reason it is also known as Puig del Merlet. This peak and the spring of the same name were admired and described by Archduke Louis Salvador of Austria on an excursion that took him from Vila to Santa Agnès de Corona.

Our objective is the Torre de la Gavina, one of the five towers built in Formentera during the 18th century for the surveillance and defense of its fragile coastline. The other constructions are the Torre de la Guardiola, on the island of Espalmador, the Torre de Punta Prima, next to Es Pujols, the Torre del Pi del Català, on Migjorn beach, and the Torre del Garroveret, near Cap de Barbaria. The route we have traced circumvents the Estany del Peix, a large natural pond open to the sea by La Boca, which was the island's first major fishing and salt port. Indeed, the venda de Porto-salè takes its name from the Portus salarius, a salt exploitation from Roman times. An extraordinary place where natural and heritage values have built a powerful and extensive cultural landscape. We will also visit the public estate of Can Marroig, one of the emblematic corners of the Ses Salines de Eivissa i Formentera Natural Park. For inquiries about the island's public transport, we can consult the website busformetera.com, where we will find all the information about routes and timetables.

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Our objective is the Artrutx watchtower (17th century) from the beaches of Son Saura. To begin with, a clarification, because we must not confuse the starting point of this route with the Son Saura sandbank, north of the municipality of Mercadal, to the right of the Fornells watchtower, also owned by the Comte de Torre-Saura Foundation – José María de Olives i Ponsich. In addition to the walk, we propose a dip in Cala en Turqueta before starting the return journey.