Formentera, as well as the islands located around it, is well-known for its beaches and clear water. Nevertheless, if you visit the interior part of the island and its forests, you will discover another type of tourism: on foot.
There are various zones and landscapes that should be visited if you really want to know this island's beauty. One of these is, for example, the climb until La Mola by the ruins of an ancient Roman road, but there are many other zones with similar landscape richness.
Roman road: You can start covering this route in Es Caló, at the low part of La Mola. You will walk through the forest and further on, you will get closer to the cliff where you can stop and enjoy an incredible general view of the island an its beaches. As you continue walking, you will find interesting zones like the cave of Sa Ma Peluda and other exceptional caves and routes. Finally, you will reach the top of La Mola, where one of the smallest and most characteristic villages of Formentera is located.
Camino Viejo de La Mola
Faro (lighthouse) de La Mola: Many visitors believe that the Faro de La Mola is a magic place, and so did the writer Julio Verne, who described the magic of this place in some of his novels. The Faro de La Mola, situated at the highest part of the island, works as an essential guide for innumerable seafarers that both in the past and in present times sail Formentera's waters and, at the same time, enjoy the majestic view offered by the plateau's cliffs. However, this is not the only magic place in Formentera. There is another magic point also kept by an amazing lighthouse that rises from the ground in order to illuminate the horizon with its light beam: the lighthouse of Es Cap de Barbaría.
Cap de Barbaría: Es Cap de Barbaría is a heavenly place formed by rocks, where you will surely experience two feelings joined together: an immense solitude and freedom. It is necessary to visit and walk along this place in order to discover the majesty thereof. Finally, when you reach the boundary of Cap de Barbaría, you can see the lighthouse, from which you will enjoy an extraordinary sunset during which the sea and the sky join in reddish tonalities that build the horizon. Once you have arrived here, if you still want to continue walking, you have the possibility of visiting, not too far from the lighthouse, the vigilance tower, which once protected this island from invaders.
Sa Pedrera: We can finish our coastline visit in a place where odd and curious rocks form a stone desert called Sa Pedrera. At the place where, in past times, the stones needed for building were taken out, there is today a stretch of stone pieces and rock quarry of a great tourist interest. If you are so lucky of being able to sail along the island's coast, you will enjoy some views and cliffs, all sliced by semisubmarine caves, and, at the same time, you will enjoy the view of the whole territory of Ibiza.
La Savina:The only harbour of the island where you can have a walk while admiring a great number of sailboats and luxury yachts is La Sabina. Starting here, we can embark on two wonderful routes. The first one, along the coast, where we can admire the best beaches of the island; the second one, along the interior, through a natural area which can only be visited on foot: S'entany Pudent.
Faro de La Mola
Es Pas D'Es Trucadors: Leaving La Sabina harbour, (we can hire a vehicle or cover the route on foot), we will head for Illetas beach. Once we have reached Illetas, we start our trip on foot through certain small beaches that, all joined together, build a land's end which almost touch the island of Espalmador. We can walk until this land's end while watching the sea at both sides of the path. There is always someone who wants to make a pause and have a refreshing swim at one of these beaches. During the trip on foot until Es Pas, we can also enjoy the strange artificial rock formations, among some artistic expressions, marks left by the hippies and other travelers. Finally, we reach the last point of the route from where you will find yourself very close to the island of Espalmador and where you will be able to admire the virgin nature of the area.
S'Estany Pudent: Also leaving the town of La Savina, we can embark on a route that leads us to the megalithic monument of Ca Na Costa. If we leave La Sabina for Illetas, just at the town's exit we will find a pond and a path which branches off completely sorrounding this pond. If we take this path, which it is only allowed to be covered on foot or by bicycle in order not to spoil or disturb the habitat of thousands of birds that use this pond as a meeting point, we will reach the town of Es Pujols, from where, following the signs, we will arrive at one of the most ancient archaeological discoveries of the island: the monument of Ca Na Costa, which was discovered in summer of 1974 and which is considered to be one of the most important monuments of the historical patrimony of Formentera.
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