Ses Salines takes its name from the salt flats that have been worked here since antiquity, and the landscape still answers to them: flat farmland, low dry-stone walls, white salt mounds in the distance and a horizon that ends at the island’s southernmost lighthouse. It is the most understated corner of southern Mallorca — a working village rather than a destination, with its small port at Colònia de Sant Jordi a few minutes away.
What draws travellers here is the coast that comes with it: the wild, undeveloped beaches of Es Trenc, Es Carbó and Es Caragol, reachable on foot or by boat and still free of the build-up that defines most of the island’s sand.
