Five fun facts you might not know about Pollenca, Mallorca

Puerto Pollenca is one of Mallorca’s most popular holiday resorts and with good reason. With quality restaurants, bustling bars, great beaches and plenty of activities for all ages and tastes, there is never a dull moment in Pollenca.

If you are heading to this beautiful horseshoe-shaped bay this year or are thinking about it, check out Vintage Travel’s five fun facts you might not know about this vibrant North Mallorcan town.

Puerto Pollenca was originally a fishing village 

It might be one of the liveliest and most popular destinations on the whole of Mallorca but once upon a time Puerto Pollenca was a small and simple fishing village. You can still see some of the traditional ‘flauts’ that were used to catch fish in Pollenca’s sophisticated marina.

Puerto Pollenca’s market

The market at Puerto Pollenca takes place each Wednesday morning. This lively market attracts a large number of locals and visitors each week, keen to get their hands on fresh produce and quirky homemade items for reasonable prices.

A great base for walking

Being at the foothills of the Tramuntana Mountains, Puerto Pollenca is a great place to stay if you’re keen to explore Mallorca’s beautiful countryside on foot. The Tramuntana Mountains are home to incredibly diverse landscapes and a number of peaks above 1,000 metres.

At Puerto Pollenca, the Tramuntana’s wonderful gullies, gorges, cliffs and peaks are within striking distance.

Puerto Pollenca’s military base

Puerto Pollenca has its own military base to the north of the town which is home to several amphibious firefighting aircraft. The aircraft can often be seen flying across the bay on exercise missions.

During the Spanish Civil War the Puerto Pollenca air base was used to support the National Spanish Seefliegerstaffel aircraft from the German Condor Legion.

The bronze bust of Hermenegildo Anglada

One of the most popular walks around Puerto Pollenca is known as the Pine Walk, which winds round the town’s coastline. Along the Pine Walk is the bronze bust of Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Balearic painter of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.