It’s not difficult to understand why as this was the key to the routes of the western Mediterranean and the position of the island governed routes to and from Africa.
An archipelago located around 11 miles from the southern coast of Mallorca Cabrera consists of one main island, known as Great Cabrera, and another 18 lesser-sized islands.
One of the truisms about the Balearic Islands is that each island is a world of its own. They islands posses a relatively reduced geographic area but the difference between them is noticeable in its diversity.
Many prehistoric constructions found on the islands of Menorca and, to a lesser extent, Mallorca, open an enigmatic window in time contrasting vividly with latter-day snapshots...
Like the islands in the rest of the archipelago, Formentera was a staging post for many of the marauders and pirates, conquerors and conquered who plied the Mediterranean for over two thousand years.
