Walking · Spain
Spain's walking heritage runs from the Camino de Santiago to the ancient shepherd routes of the Sierras. Nowhere finer than the GR221 — the Dry Stone Route — traversing the length of the Serra de Tramuntana above the Mediterranean.
Why walk here
Spain is one of Europe's great walking countries. A vast GR network laced across the mainland, the pilgrim routes of the Camino, and — offshore in the Balearics — a UNESCO-listed mountain range with a footpath that runs its full length.
The GR221 is that footpath. One hundred and thirty eight kilometres from Port d'Andratx on the south-west corner of Mallorca to Port de Pollença in the north-east, following stone-flagged mule paths (camins de pedra en sec) built over centuries by farmers, charcoal-burners, and snow-collectors.
You cross terraced olive groves, sleep in restored monasteries and mountain refugis, drink Mallorcan wine at long refuge tables, and drop into stone villages — Estellencs, Valldemossa, Deià, Sóller, Lluc — that have looked much the same for four hundred years. The Mediterranean is your horizon for the whole walk.
The trails we walk
Every trail is walked and re-walked before we open it. We'd rather do four brilliantly than forty badly.
Book nowMallorca
138 km · 6–8 days
The Serra de Tramuntana end to end. Stone-flagged mule paths, Moorish terraces, mountain refuges, and the Mediterranean at your shoulder from Port d'Andratx to Port de Pollença.
Book nowMallorca
53 km · 3–4 days
The highlight middle stretch of the GR221 as a long weekend — Estellencs to Sóller, along the postman's path to Esporles and over the high ridgeline above Deià.
Book nowMenorca
184 km · 7–8 days
A full 184 km loop of Menorca's coast on the medieval horseman's path — cliffs and turquoise coves of the wild north, historic Ciutadella in the middle, and softer south-coast beaches back to Maó.
The trail on one map
Lines follow each trail's waypoints — live trail pages draw the full GPX route. Tap a line to see the trail.
Reasons to linger
Eat
Pa amb oli — bread rubbed with tomato and drizzled with island olive oil — at every refuge lunch. Tumbet, sobrassada, arròs brut. Slow-cooked lamb in the villages above Sóller. The refugis serve a set menú del dia at long shared tables — you eat what the mountains grew.
Drink
Mallorcan wine is having a quiet renaissance — Manto Negro reds from Binissalem, crisp whites from the small bodegas around Santa Maria. Fresh-squeezed orange juice from the Sóller valley in the morning. A hierbas — the island's herbal liqueur — after dinner.
Sleep
We book the network of restored mountain refugis — Can Boi, Muleta, Tossals Verds, Son Amer — plus small family-run hotels in the villages when a proper bed and shower are needed. All walker-friendly, all with early breakfasts.
Read
Paddy Dillon's The GR221 (Cicerone) is the working guide. Robert Graves's Deià — where he lived for fifty years — reads differently once you've walked into the village on foot. Take a translation of Ramon Llull for the medieval Mallorcan mindset.
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