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cúdia (€5.65, 50 minutes, six daily Monday to Saturday) and Port de Pollença (€6.55,
one hour).
The train station was being restored at the time of writing as part of the planned exten-
sion of the Palma-Manacor train line to Artà.
DON'T MISS
EASTERN MALLORCA'S BEST BEACHES
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Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant
This beautiful nature park, 5km north of Artà, is one of the most rewarding corners of the
island's east. It's dominated by the Serra de Llevant, a low mountain range of wind-
sculpted limestone, cloaked in woods of holm oak, Aleppo pine and fan palms. The park
culminates in the
Cap Ferrutx
, a dramatic finger of land that juts out into the Mediter-
ranean and along the northern and eastern coasts. The
park office
( 606 096830;
S'Alqueria Vella de Baix; information office 9am-3pm)
can help with itinerary maps and or-
ganises guided walks, generally in Catalan and Spanish.
Although parts of the park are accessible by car, it's hugely popular with hikers, cyc-
lists and binocular-wielding birdwatchers; the latter are drawn by the prevalence of cor-
morants, Audouin's gulls, peregrine and Eleonora's falcons. Wild goats, Balearic green
toads and Hermann's tortoises can be spotted with a little luck too.
The remote nature of the park means that coves like
Cala Fosca
and
Platja de sa
Font Celada
are quiet and pristine, with flour-soft sand and crystal-clear sea.
The 19th-century
Ermita de Betlem
is still home to hermits who live a life of seclu-
sion and self-sufficiency. The alluring views over country and wind-whipped coast make
the pilgrimage to this hermitage worthwhile. There is a small church with irregular open-
ing hours - its lovely stone-built exterior stands in contrast to the modern whitewashed
