Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(Plaça Major; 8.30am-1pm Sun)
Held year-round, Pollença's Sunday market is one of the
largest and liveliest in Mallorca. Fruit, veg, cheese, wine, herbs and spices are concen-
trated in the Plaça Major, with handicrafts and other stalls taking over an ever-widening
arc of surrounding streets.
Enseñat
FOOD, WINE
(
www.ensenyat.com
; Carrer d'Alcúdia 5; 8.30am-3pm & 4.30-8.30pm Mon-Sat, 8.30am-2pm
Sun)
Pick up Mallorcan wines, salts, preserves, cheeses, meats, including homemade
so-
brassada
(paprika-flavoured cured pork sausage)
,
and Sóller marmalade at this gourmet
deli, in business since the 1940s.
Teixits Vicens
HANDICRAFTS
(
www.teixitsvicens.com
; Ronda Can Berenguer; 9am-8pm Mon-Fri, 10am-2pm & 4-8pm Sat Apr-
Sep, shorter hours rest of year)
Artisans have been making the striped Mallorcan fabrics
known as
robes de llengües
here at this family-run business since 1854, and the contem-
porary fabrics they turn out are faithful to traditional designs. Some of their works are on
display at Hito (
Click here
)
.
Information
Tourist office
( 971 53 50 77;
www.pollensa.com
; Carrer de Guillem Cifre de Colonya;
8.30am-1.30pm & 2-4pm Mon-Fri, 10am-1pm Sun May-Oct, shorter hours rest of year)
A mine of
info on Pollença and its surrounds.
Getting There & Away
From Palma, bus 340 heads nonstop for Pollença (€5.30, 45 minutes, up to 12 daily). It
then continues on to Cala Sant Vicenç (€1.50, 20 minutes, six daily) and Port de Pollença
(€1.50, 20 minutes, up to 30 daily).
DON'T MISS
CLIFF JUMPING IN CALA SANT VINCENÇ
Jumping off a cliff may sound suicidal, but it's a thrilling summer pursuit around
the ragged cliffs of Cala Sant Vicenç, where locals diving from giddy heights make
