Mirador de ses Barques
Food stop · Mallorca
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One of the best views in the Tramuntana: the terrace drops straight down the Sóller valley to Port de Sóller and the mountains ringing it. Built purely for that view in the 1960s, unlike the island's older watchtower miradors, with a family restaurant beside it serving traditional Mallorcan roasts and rice since 1961.
Riders climbing the MA-10 out of Fornalutx toward the Coll de sa Batalla and Lluc use this as the natural place to catch their breath, 400 meters up with the descent back down into Sóller still ahead, and it's one of the better-rated viewpoints on the island for both road cycling and mountain biking. Inside, a dining room built around an open fireplace gives it more the feel of a working kitchen than a roadside snack bar. The kitchen serves proper Mallorcan cooking: roast suckling pig, paella, squid, fish brought fresh from the port, a fuller menu than the quick orange-juice-and-cake stop it's sometimes remembered as. Reviews are candid about the trade: solid rather than spectacular cooking, and a restaurant that reviewers admit is touristy, against a view that genuinely rivals anywhere on the island. The car park at the mirador also doubles as a trailhead, the start of the old stone path down through Fornalutx toward the Sa Costera cliffs and Cala Tuent.
On the Puig Major climb (~km 6), a popular refuel stop; nothing else until Café Escorca, well past the summit.
What you see
The terrace sits right on the hillside's edge: below the rail, olive terraces fall away into the funnel of the valley, the rooftops of Port de Sóller catching the light, and boats moving in the bay far below.
Practical
Parking at the mirador; closed Mondays, with shorter hours in winter (October to April) than in summer, when it stays open later into the evening.
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Common questions
- Why stop at Mirador de ses Barques on a bike ride?
- One of the best views in the Tramuntana: the terrace drops straight down the Sóller valley to Port de Sóller and the mountains ringing it. Built purely for that view in the 1960s, unlike the island's older watchtower miradors, with a family restaurant beside it serving traditional Mallorcan roasts and rice since 1961.
- When is Mirador de ses Barques open?
- Parking at the mirador; closed Mondays, with shorter hours in winter (October to April) than in summer, when it stays open later into the evening.