Migjorn de Mallorca travel guide

Migjorn is the southern region of Mallorca. It has a string of resorts along its coast and more traditional towns inland.

The west of this region includes S'Arenal, but that's effectively part of the Palma resort strip and isn't described here.

Understand

Cala d'Or is the main resort (Photo: Xxlstier, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Migjorn means "midday" in Catalan, so it's equivalent to the Midi region of southern France or il Mezzogiorno of southern Italy. Its coast is well-developed for tourism especially where the beaches are sandy. Inland is mostly a level plain, with occasional abrupt hills but not as high as the mountains along the northwest coast. This plain supports traditional small-scale farming, including vineyards. The inland towns don't have much visitor accommodation but several finca farmsteads offer agrotourism stays. The towns are the governing municipalities for the beach resorts, which have far outgrown them.

This region has suffered from unregulated or illegal development, with concrete carbuncles sprouting like undergrowth. The island elders realise there's better and more sustainable income to be gained from nature conservation, so they huff and puff against these developments and occasionally succeed in blowing them down.

Inland locals speak Mallorquí, a dialect of Catalan, but understand Castilian the standard version of Spanish that visitors learn. In the resorts, anyone in the service sector is likely to speak Castilian, English and German.

Towns

• Llucmajor municipality includes Tolleric, S'Estanyol and Cala Pi.
• Campos municipality includes Sa Ràpita and Ses Covetes.
• Felanitx municipality includes Portocolom and Cas Concos.
• Badia Blava is midpoint of a sprawling resort including Sa Torre, Badia Gran and Tolleric.
• Colònia de Sant Jordi is part of Ses Salines 6 km inland.
• Santanyí municipality includes Cala d'Or, Portopetro and Cala Figuera.
• Cala d'Or is the largest resort.

Other destinations

• Cabrera is an island wildlife reserve for hiking and scuba diving. It can be reached by boat trips from Colònia.

Get in

• Palma de Mallorca Airport (PMIIATA) is just beyond the western boundary of Migjorn.

By road from Palma city and airport head east on MA-19 towards Llucmajor. Stay on it for Campos, Santanyí and Cala d'Or.

Branch south at Campos for MA-6040 to Colònia de Sant Jordi. Branch northeast on MA-5120 for Felanitx, where you join MA-14 from Santanyí to Manacor.

Trad band in Llucmajor (Photo: Antoni Salvà, CC BY-SA 4.0)

TIB buses link the towns:

Bus A51 from the airport hourly to S'Arenal, Llucmajor and Campos, taking 45 min. It doesn't go into Palma city.

• Bus 501 runs from Palma to Llucmajor, Campos, Felanitx and Manacor every 30 min, taking 90 min.
• Bus 504 follows the coast from Palma to Arenal, Sa Torre, Badia Gran and Tolleric every 30 min, taking an hour.
• Bus 505 follows the coast hourly from Cala Pi to Tolleric, where it connects with the Palma bus.
• Bus 508 runs from Palma to Llucmajor, S'Estanyol and Sa Ràpita. It's every 75 min, taking an hour.
• Bus 512 runs from Felanitx (connecting with the Palma bus) hourly to Portocolom, taking 40 min.
• Bus 514 runs from Porreres to Felanitx and Cala d'Or. It's every two hours or so.
• Bus 515 follows MA-19 hourly from Campos (connecting with the Palma bus) to Santanyí, Portopetro and Cala d'Or.
• Bus 516 is a similar run every two hours from Campos to Santanyí, then looping through Cala Figuera.
• Bus 517 runs hourly from Campos to Colònia and Santanyí.
• Bus 518 runs from Campos to Sa Ràpita every two hours, taking 20 min.
• Bus 521 runs every 70 min from Cala d'Or to Portopetro and Cala Mondragó.

For fares and ticket deals see Palma de Mallorca#Get Around.

Get around

Puerto Colon (Photo: mateu mulet, CC BY 3.0)

The roads are in good condition but congested at the height of the tourist season. The terrain is suitable for cycling, but it's not much fun with traffic barging past.

Local bus routes branch from the main spine route Palma - Campos - Manacor as described above.

Taxis ply between Palma city and airport and the main towns.

See

Botanicactus (Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0)

• Felanitx has a pleasant old town centre, with the Church of Sant Miquel.
• Santuari de Sant Salvador is 7.5 km southeast of Felanitx: it's a hair-pinning road and lung-busting ascent by bicycle. It's a fortress-like pilgrimage site and lookout point, idyllic at sunset.
• Botanicactus is an extensive cactus garden near Ses Salines.
• Colònia lighthouse is a modern metal tower at the south tip of Colònia town. Na Guardis is the nearby island southeast.

Do

Sanctuary of Sant Salvador (Photo: Friedrich Haag, CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Beaches are sandy in places, rocky elsewhere. Wear beach shoes to protect against sea urchins.
• Scuba diving: dive shacks as far away as Palma bring their customers to Colònia for diving here or around Cabrera.
• Golf: Val d'Or Golf is near Portocolom, and there's a driving range at Cala d'Or.

Golf Maioris is near Sa Torre.
Son Antem is a golf resort hotel west of Llucmajor.

• Fiestas are held on religious holy days, especially Easter.

Buy

All the towns have chain supermarkets such as Lidl and Eroski, open daily 09:00-21:00.

Eat

Lots of places on the coast serving tapas and Mediterranean full meals.

Drink

• Lots of fresh water, the sun parches you quicker than you realise.
• This is a wine-growing region, and some of it is distilled into brandy.
• No free-standing pubs, and this area doesn't have the pubbing-clubbing culture of the likes of Magaluf, but innumerable cafes serve alcohol.

Sleep

Sanctuary interior (Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0)

• Cala d'Or has the widest choice of accommodation.
• Colònia also had a good selection.
• Ona Cala Pí Club, Torre 2, Cala Pi, ☏ +34 971 123 010. Spacious clean aparthotel with pool.
• Son Julia Country House, Llucmajor (2 km west of town), ☏ +34 971 669 700. Beautiful relaxing hotel in a 15th-century mansion. With two restaurants, two swimming pools and spa. B&B double €350.
• Son Lladó, Campos (4 km south of town), ☏ +34 615 655 996. Charming farm-stay accommodation.

Connect

As of June 2025, all the towns and their connecting roads have 4G from Vodafone, and 5G from MasMovil, Movistar and Orange.

Go next

• Palma de Mallorca the capital needs a couple of days to explore.
• Cabrera is a one hour boat ride south of Colònia, but you must return the same day, no camping is permitted.

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