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Menorca

Menorca is the second largest of the , located to the northeast of and is the least overrun and most tranquil of the Balearics.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Maó and Ciutadella.

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is the capital city of Menorca. It has a fine natural harbour, one of the best in the Mediterranean, which was why the British made it the capital following their occupation of 1708.

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is a city on the west coast of Menorca. It's the former capital of the island and has a pleasant old town centre studded with medieval Gothic architecture.

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Mercadal is a central town of Minorca with about 5,000 people. Its municipality covers the north-central region of the island and is the second largest in area after that of .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Cala Galdana and Son Bou.

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is a beach resort village on the south coast of Menorca, 9 km south of Ferreries.

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is a small village of 165 people in the Alaior region of on the south coast of Menorca.

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is on the southwest coast of Menorca. It is a picturesque coastal village offering brilliant sea views, including of neighbouring Majorca. It largely consists of holiday homes and hotels and is a good place for a quiet, more relaxed holiday.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cova des Coloms and Talayots of Binicodrell.

Cave
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is a located in the island Menorca, in the gully of Binigaus, that has been declared Bien de Interés Cultural. Its ceiling stands about 24 m above the floor, it is 100 m deep and its entrance has a width of 15 m.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Es Migjorn Gran and Santo Tomas.

Village
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is a small municipality in southern Menorca in the . Formerly incorporated into the municipality of Es Mercadal, it is currently the island's newest and second-smallest municipal district.

Hamlet
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Sant Tomàs of , or Santo Tomás in Spanish, is a small village on the south coast of Menorca, part of the Spanish located in the Mediterranean Sea.

Menorca

Latitude
39.9494° or 39° 56′ 58″ north
Longitude
4.0594° or 4° 3′ 34″ east
Population
93,400
Elevation
103 metres (338 feet)
IATA airport code
MAH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4076068946
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2513925
Wiki­data ID
Q52636
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Menorca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Menorca”
  • Afrikaans: “Minorka”
  • Albanian: “Menorka”
  • Arabic: “منورقة”
  • Aragonese: “Menorca”
  • Armenian: “Մենորկա”
  • Asturian: “Menorca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Minorka”
  • Banjar: “Menorca”
  • Basque: “Menorca”
  • Belarusian: “Менорка”
  • Breton: “Menorca”
  • Bulgarian: “Менорка”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Menorca”
  • Catalan: “Menorca”
  • Cebuano: “Minorca”
  • Central Bikol: “Minorka”
  • Chinese: “梅诺卡岛”
  • Croatian: “Menorca”
  • Czech: “Menorca”
  • Danish: “Menorca”
  • Dutch: “Menorca”
  • Dutch: “Minorca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مينوركا”
  • Esperanto: “Minorko”
  • Estonian: “Menorca”
  • Finnish: “Menorca”
  • French: “Minorque”
  • Galician: “Menorca”
  • Georgian: “მენორკა”
  • German: “die Kleinere”
  • German: “kleine Schwesterinsel Mallorcas”
  • German: “Menorca”
  • Greek: “Μινόρκα”
  • Hebrew: “מנורקה”
  • Hungarian: “Menorca”
  • Icelandic: “Menorka”
  • Ido: “Minorka”
  • Indonesian: “Menorca”
  • Irish: “Mionarca”
  • Italian: “Minorca”
  • Japanese: “メノルカ島”
  • Korean: “메노르카섬”
  • Korean: “미노르카 섬”
  • Ladino: “Menorka”
  • Latin: “Balearis Minor”
  • Latin: “Minorica”
  • Latvian: “Menorka”
  • Lithuanian: “Menorka”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Menorca”
  • Macedonian: “Менорка”
  • Malagasy: “Menorca”
  • Malay: “Menorca”
  • Malay: “Minorca”
  • Marathi: “मेनोर्का”
  • Northern Frisian: “Menorca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Menorca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Menorca”
  • Norwegian: “Menorca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Menòrca”
  • Persian: “منرکا”
  • Persian: “مینورکا”
  • Polish: “Minorka”
  • Portuguese: “Menorca”
  • Portuguese: “Minorca”
  • Romanian: “Menorca”
  • Russian: “Менорка”
  • Russian: “Минорка”
  • Sardinian: “Minorca”
  • Scots: “Minorca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Menorca”
  • Serbian: “Менорка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Menorca”
  • Sicilian: “Minorca”
  • Slovak: “Menorca”
  • Slovenian: “Menorca”
  • Slovenian: “Menorka”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Menorca”
  • Spanish: “Menorca”
  • Swedish: “Menorca”
  • Tagalog: “Minorca”
  • Thai: “เกาะมานอร์กา”
  • Thai: “เกาะมินอร์กา”
  • Thai: “เกาะเมนอร์กา”
  • Turkish: “Minorka”
  • Ukrainian: “Менорка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Menorca”
  • Vietnamese: “Menorca”
  • Vietnamese: “Minorca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Menorca”
  • Welsh: “Menorca”
  • Western Frisian: “Minorka”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅诺卡岛”

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