Mahón's harbor is the largest natural harbor in the world after Pearl Harbor. Its nearly 6 km length and maximum depth of 30 meters attest to this. It lies at the foot of a city built atop a hill. From the cliffside promenade, there is a panoramic view of the surrounding area, from Colàrsega to Punta de Sant Felip.It is Mahón, a beautiful and elegant city"," affirms a most solemn hymn, written in 1904 on the occasion of the visit of King Alfonso XIII, which its inhabitants now sing with satisfaction at the beginning of the Gràcia festivities, the first week of September. And it makes perfect sense. Today, Maó is, for many, the most cosmopolitan city on the island of Menorca. We find the English heritage present, a result of its rule during much of the 18th century. But, a couple of millennia earlier, in Roman times, the Portus Magonis It was ground zero for an economic activity that spurred the city's development, Magonawhich finally received the status of municipality with the title of Flavium Magontanum MunicipalityHowever, Ciutadella had been the island's capital from the beginning. Everything changed in February 1722, by order of the renowned British governor Richard Kane. Under the pretext of disagreements with the mayor-general, he moved the courts, and therefore the capital, from Ciutadella to Mahón, a city he beautified and whose urban expansion he regulated. A century later, the port of Mahón hosted the first overseas US military base, from 1825 to 1845.