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The mountains of Serra de Tramuntana rise like an amphitheatre above
Deià (
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), a real bird's nest of a village perched high above the iri-
descent Mediterranean. Mallorca has countless pretty towns, but none surpass
this beauty: its gold-stone buildings climb a pyramid-shaped hill and glow like
warm honey as day fades to dusk. It has long been the muse of artists and
writers, not least the poet Robert Graves. Head to nearby Son Marroig, once the
romantic abode of an Austrian archduke, to see the Mediterranean turn to flame
at sunset.
