Buying a home of 100 square meters in Formentera exceeds, on average, one million euros. In Santa Eulària des Riu, the same surface area is equivalent to more than 900,000 euros, and in Andratx, to about 854,000. These are the three municipalities that lead the ranking of the most expensive municipalities in Spain, prepared by the real estate portal pisos.com with data from September 2026. The Balearic Islands occupy the first seven places and concentrate 15 of the 25 municipalities in the ranking, 60% of the total.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated an orange alert (significant danger) in the Balearic Islands this Friday due to heavy rain and storms in Ibiza and Formentera throughout the day.

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.

The Department of Education and the Council of Formentera want to build about forty rental homes intended for teaching staff displaced to the island. The two administrations signed a protocol to promote the project, which aims to provide a response to one of the main obstacles to covering and retaining teachers on the island, who mostly come from outside: the difficulty of finding affordable and stable housing. The future apartments would be located on land that the Council will cede in Es Pujols. The project is still in an initial phase. The administrations must specify the accommodation needs, the location, and the financing formulas. In addition, a technical commission will be created that will have up to twelve months to prepare a report with the diagnosis of needs and a proposal for action. Work is also being done with the Council of Ibiza to activate a similar project.

The end of the tourist season has begun with a trickle of labor sanctions in the Pityusic Islands that, according to CCOO, are being used to reduce staff. The union assures that since mid-August it has been recording an average of two or three sanctions per day, especially in the hospitality sector.

The deputy for Formentera in the Parliament, Llorenç Córdoba, demanded this Tuesday in the plenary session the resignation of the Minister of the Sea, Juan Manuel Lafuente, due to his management of the General Directorate of Coasts. The parliamentarian has supported the PP on almost all issues except for the repeal of the memory law this legislative term, but with the changes in criteria regarding the concession of sunbeds in Formentera, he has drawn a red line. After the general director was dismissed for establishing a requirement that was in line with technical criteria, Córdoba asked himself "who really set" the criteria that were finally applied to the Coast files during this legislative term: "The technicians and civil servants or the political leaders?".

A Civil Guard patrol boat located the lifeless body of a teenager on Saturday afternoon about six miles south of Formentera. The corpse was in an advanced state of decomposition and was wearing a life jacket, two elements that suggest it could be a migrant who died during the crossing to the Balearic Islands.

The team from the Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera (MAEF) has carried out the reception and transfer to its archaeological warehouse of a set of approximately 26 Roman amphorae and 17 boxes of fragmented ceramic material. It is a fairly homogeneous set from a typological point of view, Dressel 20 type Roman amphorae for the transport of oil, but, in this case, with a multitude of stamps and marks that will provide a lot of information in their study.

Ministry of the Sea and Water Cycle, August 17, 2:15 p.m. The head of the Legal Service, Mariano Socias, digitally signs an 80-page legal report and resolution proposal on the controversial authorizations for sunbeds and umbrellas in Formentera. The proposal is to re-authorize a large part of the facilities that the Directorate General of Coasts had excluded just three months earlier.

In Ibiza and Formentera, the vocabulary related to livestock conveys a way of life where raising sheep and goats was part of the peasant economy and daily diet. It is not simply an abundance of names, but a precise lexicon that allowed animals to be distinguished according to species, sex, age, or their function within the flock.Words like ‘xai’, ‘anyell’, ‘moltó’, ‘ovella’, ‘cabrit’, ‘cabra’, and ‘boc’ are part of this rural universe. In the case of ovines, ‘xai’ and ‘anyell’ denote the young of the sheep, while ‘moltó’ identifies the adult male and ‘ovella’, the female. Among caprines, ‘cabrit’ is the name for the young, while ‘cabra’ and ‘boc’ distinguish adult animals according to sex. These are words known in the Catalan language as a whole, but in the Pitiuses they are integrated within a much broader peasant terminology, where differences in the animal’s age and state could have practical importance.

A beach umbrella may seem like an insignificant object to destabilize a government. In Formentera, it is not. For more than 20 years, beach umbrellas and sun loungers have been capable of confronting technicians, businessmen, administrations, and parties, and even influencing electoral results on the island.

The non-attached councilor of the Consell de Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, will bring to the next plenary session of the insular institution a proposal to censor the management of the Government and the governing team of Sa Unió in the processing of authorizations for seasonal facilities on the island's beaches.

The Government has tried this Tuesday to close the political crisis opened around the management of the seasonal concessions of the beaches of Formentera. After days of controversy marked by the dismissal of the Director General of Coasts and Littoral, Maria Joaquina Ferrer, the criticism of the opposition, the public support of the officials of the Directorate General of Coasts to the former director and the complaints of the concessionaires of the beach huts for the lack of decisions, the Ministry of the Sea and the Water Cycle has announced that it has completed the review of the seasonal facilities and has approved the resolution that sets the authorized occupations for the period 2026-2029.

Maria Joaquina Ferrer is no longer the Director General of Costs and Littoral, but a good part of the team that worked with her does not seem willing to let her dismissal be read only in terms of a management crisis. Twenty-one officials from the agency have signed a letter addressed to the Minister of the Sea and the Water Cycle, Juan Manuel Lafuente, in which they express disagreement with the Government's decision and claim the way Ferrer has led the agency in recent months.

"Whoever goes to the beach in Formentera and wants to rent a sun lounger, doesn't have one." This is how the Vice President and Government Spokesperson, Antoni Costa, spoke about the situation on the island regarding the concession of sun loungers and umbrellas, which has led to the dismissal of the already former Director General of Coasts, Maria Joaquina Ferrer, this Friday after the Government Council meeting. The origin of this conflict dates back to May, when a resolution from the Directorate General of Coasts for temporary facilities for 2026-2029 denied authorization for 681 sun loungers and 339 umbrellas, provoking criticism from the Formentera Council towards the Government (Coasts did authorize 1,169 sun loungers and 589 umbrellas). The Vice President commented that this situation "had not occurred in Formentera in previous years" and stressed that "it has a very significant impact on public interest." "Whoever goes to the beach in Formentera and wants to rent a sun lounger, doesn't have one," he lamented.

On August 12, 2026, the Balearic Islands will be one of the few places from which to contemplate a total solar eclipse. But it won't be enough to find yourself on the right island: the phenomenon will practically coincide with sunset and any building, tree or mountain that blocks the western horizon may prevent you from seeing its most spectacular moment.

Two young women, aged 30 and 31, died this Tuesday morning in a traffic accident in Formentera after the motorcycle they were traveling on was hit by a taxi. The incident occurred around 11:27 AM in the Cala d'en Dúo area.

A taxi has fatally run over two 25-year-old women while they were on a motorcycle this Wednesday, as reported by SAMU 061.

A 65-year-old man of American nationality died this Thursday after drowning off the island of Espalmador, in Formentera, after jumping into the sea despite the red flag flying due to the sea state.

I grew up with the beach in front of me. Before I knew almost anything about the world, I already knew how to hold a crab net from my grandfather, how the wet sand clung to my feet (also the varnish) and how the castles we built with my mother and my brother, with a bucket or just with our hands, had minutes counted before the sea took them away. Later came the long summers of adolescence: hours and hours with friends sitting on the sand doing nothing more than chatting, laughing and jumping again from that rock we saw from our house. Mornings, afternoons and evenings. The beach was our natural place. We didn't go there, we lived there.