Ca'n Topa
Café · Mallorca
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Ca'n Topa is a mountain café-bar-restaurant on the Coll de Sóller pass above Bunyola, in a building dating to 1880, run by Paula and Damian. It's known for its garden terrace with a small plunge pool, serving fresh-squeezed orange juice and homemade sweet and savoury snacks. For cyclists it's the definitive stop atop the climb, and the terrace regularly fills with jersey-clad riders from both the Bunyola and Sóller sides, taking in views over Palma Bay and the valley.
At just under 500 metres, Ca'n Topa sits about as high as a café gets on Mallorca, sharing that altitude with little beyond the island's old mountain refugis. Paula and Damian keep the kitchen running on cakes, cold cuts and fresh bread rather than a full restaurant menu, and it is the carrot cake that keeps coming up in riders' own accounts of the stop. The oranges behind the juice are grown right there in the valley below. Each winter the same tables fill with professional riders on the island for pre-season training camps, alongside everyone else who has just made it up the climb.
What you see
The Coll de Sóller pass sign stands right at the edge of the terrace, and a steady stream of riders pull in just to pose for a photo beside it before rolling on.
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