Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer)
Climb · Mallorca
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Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer) is a 3.3 km cycling climb averaging 5.5% (+180 m), rising from 12 m to 192 m in Mallorca.
Parietti's other road: the engineer of Sa Calobra built this one out of Port de Pollença in 1925, and designed the Es Colomer viewpoint that ends it. The Challenge Mallorca keeps finishing races on it, Evenepoel winning alone there in 2026, and the ramp from the port is one of the most ridden stretches on the island.
3.3 km · +180 m · 5.5% avg · ~8.3% max · 12 → 192 m
Stats computed from OpenStreetMap and satellite elevation data — approximate.
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Gradient by colour: ● <3% ● 3–6% ● 6–9% ● 9%+
Where it bites
Steepest 500 m: 8.1% (km 2.4–2.9).
Road: paved throughout
| km | to | avg |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 m | 2.7% |
| 2 | 109 m | 6.9% |
| 3 | 172 m | 6.4% |
What it’s like to ride
The road leaves Port de Pollença almost flat, then tips up at the edge of town and stacks six hairpins into the hillside, roughly 3.3 km at 7–8% for about 230 m of gain, with short steeper kicks between the bends. Pine woods cover the lower turns before falling away, so each hairpin hands you more of Pollença bay behind you, and the tarmac is smooth and in good order the whole way. The top is the Mirador d'es Colomer at the Coll de sa Creueta, a small free car park with a stepped path up to the old Sa Creueta watchtower platform, where the Es Colomer islet stands out of the sea below vertical cliffs. Drinks and basic snacks are sold at the viewpoint in season, with a portaloo beside them, but the hours are unreliable and there is nothing else out on the peninsula, so leave Port de Pollença with two full bottles. The road is narrow and carries tour buses and holiday traffic on one of the most ridden stretches on the island, which is the whole argument for starting early.
History
Antoni Parietti Coll, the Mallorcan engineer who cut the Sa Calobra hairpins, built this road out of Port de Pollença in 1925, and designed the Es Colomer viewpoint at the top of its first climb; a sculpture in his honour stands at the mirador itself. Access was the point: the road opened the peninsula for Adan Diehl's Hotel Formentor, and when that hotel opened on 24 August 1929 its guests still arrived by boat, because the road on to Formentor was not finished for another six months. Professional racing now treats the ramp up from the port as a summit finish, and the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca has repeatedly ended a one-day trophy at Mirador d'es Colomer. Tim Wellens won the 160.3 km edition there on 28 January 2017 ahead of Alejandro Valverde, Winner Anacona took it on 15 May 2021, and Remco Evenepoel dropped his last companion on the early slopes of the final climb to win alone on 31 January 2026.
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Common questions
- How long and steep is Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer)?
- Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer) is a 3.3 km cycling climb averaging 5.5% (+180 m), rising from 12 m to 192 m in Mallorca.
- Where is Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer) steepest?
- The steepest 500 m averages 8.1%, between km 2.4 and km 2.9 of the climb.
- What is the road surface like on Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer)?
- Cap de Formentor (Mirador d'es Colomer) is paved throughout.