Years ago, looking out the window from an airplane, Mallorca appeared patchy at night. The patches of light from Palma, the airport, and the coast contrasted with a discontinuity of dark spots. The largest one, besides the Tramuntana mountain range, was El Pla. The considerable extensions of fertile land without residential use kept the last frontier of urban expansion on the island in the dark.

When talking about tourist pressure in Mallorca, the image is usually that of a large hotel facade. In Pollença, however, the reality is different. The municipality has built a large part of its model on holiday rentals. Today it continues to be one of the municipalities with the most tourist-use homes in the Balearic Islands, and almost 68% of tourist places correspond to this type of accommodation, a reality very different from that of other primarily hotel destinations.