Platja d'es Trenc
Attraction · Mallorca
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Platja d'es Trenc is a 10 km stretch of white sand and shallow water on Mallorca's southern coast, running from Sa Ràpita to Colònia de Sant Jordi. Behind the beach, salt is still harvested in the Salinas d'Es Trenc: you'll see the salt ponds and their distinctive pink hue from mineral-rich water.
Es Trenc has stayed undeveloped since a 1990s Balearic law designated the area an ANEI, an Area of Special Natural Interest, banning new hotels and limiting the roads that reach it, at a time when the island's northeast coast was already lined with resort towers. The clearest test of that law came at Ses Covetes, where a developer had put up 13 buildings and 68 apartments on the dunes under a municipal permit. The conservation group GOB and the PSM party fought the case for 18 years, with 20 of their own members personally risking their own assets, until work crews demolished the buildings starting in April 2013. In 2022 a court rejected the developers' claim for 11 million euros in compensation. Formal protection followed in June 2017, when the Es Trenc-Salobrar de Campos Nature Park became law, called a historic day by the regional environment minister after forty years of campaigning. The fight has not settled: beach bars removed under the park's rules became a flashpoint again in 2024, and in July 2026 campaigners formed a human chain under the banner 'not before, not now, not ever' against plans to loosen the park's protections.
What you see
No buildings interrupt the dunes here, just pine and sabina scrub behind the sand, with the wetlands of Salobrar de Campos opening out where flamingos wade in the shallows.
Practical
Car access is limited in peak season: a shuttle bus runs from late June to early September and parking near the beach is capped as part of the park's traffic plan.
- Hours
- always accessible
Hours per OpenStreetMap, may be outdated.
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