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Showing posts with label IbizaCam. Show all posts
Cala Llenya
Cala Leña Beach has a deep, wide curve of fine white sand in a valley of sloping pines. The water shelves gently, so it's safe for children. Good water-sports facilities, and several beach bars.
The walks among the urbanisations are in pretty landscaped gardens and woodland.
Cala Vadella
Cala Vadella is a very beautiful sheltered bay with a wide sandy beach on the west coast of Ibiza. There are a few hotels, shops, bars and restaurants.
San Antonio Port
San Antonio boasts more than 18 kilometres of beach; You can choose from more than 56 different ones, as well as numerous coves where you can take a dip in private. Towards the south west of the island, within the municipality of Sant Josep, there is an abundance of fine sand beaches and crystalline sea, of which possibly the most famous and sought after is Spain's first nudist beach of Las Salinas with Es Cavallet just near by.
Ibiza Seafront
Ibiza Town is well-known for its nightlife. Discos such as Privilege, Amnesia or after Space apply imagination both to their design and to their fiestas. They are regularly visited by famous people. Their disc-jockeys are some of the most innovative in the world. It can be said that the town functions in a totally opposite way to the rest of the planet; the morning passes unnoticed and, at night, the town explodes with activity.
Santa Gertrudis
At the geographical heart of the island, the village of Santa Gertrudis, is Ibiza in microcosm. Steeped in tradition, its main square houses the whitewashed church and a cluster of bars, restaurants and shops, whilst in the rich agricultural landscape all around, live sheep, goats and the island's only dairy cows.
It's also a home from home for many new residents from Europe and beyond who have brought a different, can we say Bohemian? style of living to the village. Many artists, sculptors and musicians have settled here over the years and their works are everywhere – in galleries and most famously in the Bar Costa where penniless artists in the hippy era would swap paintings for food and now hanging art competes with hanging hams for space.
Santa Gertrudis has expanded rapidly but carefully over the last few years. Smart modern villas now line the new streets, the village square has had a makeover and is now a pedestrian friendly plaza and new, hip café bars and restaurants have joined traditional Ibicenco establishments as the village's eatery scene achieved critical mass.
Any time of day is just perfect for a visit to the village. With arts and crafts shops, galleries, and an eclectic mix of clothing and accessories there's plenty of retail therapy to be had before and after morning coffee, lunch, afternoon 'merienda' or dinner.
Try the Musset Cafe for morning coffee and freshly baked bread, Bar Costa for delicious jamon serrano 'sandwiches,' and crackling log fires in winter, Es Canto for traditional hearty fare, Bacchus or Parawdiso for modern cuisine and lunchtime special menus, or for a special meal in the evening La Plaza or the Macao restaurant.
Santa Eulalia
Santa Eulària des Riu (Spanish: Santa Eulalia del Rio) is a municipality on the eastern coast of Ibiza. The only river on the island flows through the town of Santa Eulària. The town was the depicted during the Spanish Civil War in The Life and Death of a Spanish Town (1937) by Elliot Paul. There are two great Hippy Markets which attract large numbers of tourists and locals: Punta Arabi, located in Es Canar runs all day every Wednesday from April through October. Las Dalias, near Sant Carles, runs all day every Saturday, throughout the year. Las Dalias also has a "Night Market" which runs Monday evenings from June through September.
Cala Tarida
Sheltered bay at the tiny resort of Cala Tarida with the longest and widest beach of fine white sand on this side of the island. The clean, clear waters over a sandy bottom are shallow to quite a way out on the right, deeper and more rocky to the left. The colours of the sea here are truly magnificent; turquoise, azure blue and emerald green.
Sant Antoni de Portmany
Sant Antoni de Portmany is a town on the western coast of Ibiza. It was called San Antonio Abad in Spanish until 1986, when its Catalan official name was restored. However, most English-speakers still refer to it as San Antonio. It is the second-largest town and municipality in Ibiza; an island long considered by clubbers to be the clubbing capital of the world. It is situated on Sant Antoni Bay on the west coast of the island, part of the Spanish autonomous community of the Balearic Islands.
For two thousand years, Sant Antoni was a small fishing village but it began to grow in the late 1950s when many hotels and tourist resorts were built as part of a mass tourism initiative which took place across Spain.
By the 1980s, Sant Antoni had acquired the stigma of being the holiday location of choice for British football hooligans, which lead to a decline in tourism in the area. However, it regained its popularity in the mid 1990s when Ibiza regained its reputation - particularly in Britain - as having the best night clubs and DJs in the world.
Young British clubbers make up the vast majority of visitors to the area, mostly attracted by programmes such as the Ibiza Uncovered series on Sky TV as well as the laid-back Ibiza lifestyle. Ibiza is home to some of the biggest nightclubs in the world including Pacha, Privilege, Space, Amnesia and Eden and Es Paradis - The latter two situated in Sant Antoni.
Cafe del Mar
While the Café del Mar located in Sant Antoni de Portmany is by far the most famous one, Café del Mar has franchises in various locations around the world, including bars, accommodations, and shops.