Mallorca for First-Timers: The 10 Things You Have to See

A 1912 wooden train climbs from Palma through 13 tunnels and orange groves to the mountain town of Sóller, where a vintage tram rattles down to the port. The island's classic scenic ride.

A corkscrew mountain road drops to a tiny cove where the Torrent de Pareis gorge meets the sea between sheer cliffs — the most dramatic landscape in the UNESCO-listed Tramuntana.

Mallorca's northernmost point, where an 1863 lighthouse crowns the cliffs and the Mirador des Colomer looks out over the Es Colomer islet. The drive out is half the experience.

A former royal charterhouse in a beautiful stone village, best known as the place where Frédéric Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838–39 — he composing, she later writing 'A Winter in Majorca'.

A vast east-coast cave system around Lake Martel, one of the largest underground lakes in the world, where a live classical quartet plays from boats on the water before you cross it yourself.

Often called 'Mallorca's Caribbean': over two kilometres of protected white sand and turquoise shallows, backed by dunes and salt flats — and, by law, no buildings on the beachfront.

The island's spiritual heart: a mountain monastery sheltering 'la Moreneta', Mallorca's Black Madonna, and home to Els Blauets, a boys' choir founded in 1531.

Mediterranean and tropical tanks, Europe's deepest shark tank, and a rooftop rainforest garden — the island's reliable rainy-day and family stop, a short hop from the city beaches.