often called the White Island for its typical architecture, became a major center of touristical attraction during the 1960s, being then famous for its "Hippie-Culture" and nudist beaches.
Today Ibiza has an ample offer as well for families and older visitors, anyhow, still there are the young ones who are attracted by the island's rollicking nightlife, which already starts in the afternoon, at the beaches and in the center of town, to continue until dawn in the numerous discotheques.
If you leave the beaches behind you, to explore the island's interior, you will find a pure and simple Mediterranean culture, and remains of populations which inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago, as for instance the famous wall-paintings of Ses Fontelles.
You can travel to Ibiza either by plane or by ship.
There are regular flights from the following Spanish airports: Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Mallorca.
From the airport of Ibiza you arrive to virtually any point of the island by public transport, or you can rent a car.
Arriving by ship is much slower, but certainly more romantical. Ships to Ibiza leave from all major Spanish ports.
Close to the beautiful City of Ibiza,
there are several great beaches. In front of Playa d'en Bossa, located at the South, you will see a small group of islands, Islas Malvinas. Among the best beaches in northern direction there are Cala Talamaca and Cala Llonga .
Santa Eulalia (Santa Eulària des Riu)
should be the next station on your excursion. This picturesque village is one of the main attractions for tourists, not just for its modern installations, but for its extraordinary beaches: Playas de Santa Eulalia, Cala Blanca and Es Canar.
San Juan,
again having some great beaches as Cala de Sant Vicent, Cala Portinatx and Cala Xarraca , is specially interesting for a quite unique historical remain: the cave Cueva des Cuieram, with a Carthaginean temple in its interior.
And Sant Miquel,
located at just a few kilometers, again offers wonderful beaches and beautiful landscape.
After passing some typical Mediterranean villages you arrive to San Antonio Abad , also called Sant Antoni de Portnani,
a very important touristical center with outstanding (but quite crowded) beaches, among them Cala Gració, Cala Blanch, or that beautiful beach located face to face to the small island Isla Margalida (Ses Margalides), and with rollicking night life.
Inhabitants of San José are proud to have the maybe most beautiful church on the island. Tourists on the other hand are mainly attracted by the beaches, of course: Cala D'Or, Cala Bassa, Cala Tárida and Es Vedra .
In the island's South you may discover some beaches that are less known still and consequently less crowded. In this part of the island there is also the cave of Ses Fontelles with its prehistorical wall-paintings.
The town of Ibiza, also called Vila d'Eivissa,
is located on a hill just at the seaside and is surrounded by impressive fortifications. It offers a unique and colorful ambience with its narrow lanes and numerous shops and stands, where you can buy souvenirs and the latest fashion articles. Here you simply must take life easy!
What to see:
Barrio de la Penya y de la Bomba
This typical and colorful quarter of town, located just at the town-walls, is the center of Ibiza's pulsating life.
D'alt Vila
Ibiza's historical center, located at the top of the hill and enclosed by town-walls. There are several interesting monuments to visit:
Cathedral
(D'alt Vila) the Gothic tower is of 10th, the Baroque nave of 18th century. In its interior, there are artworks of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque epochs.
Museo Monográfico del Puig de Molins
( Via Romana, open 16.00 to 19.00 ) Europe's best museum of Punic art. The Punic necropolis Puig de Molins is located under the museum and may be visited too.
Archaeological Museum
(D'alt Vila, open 10.00 to 13.00 ) Exposition of objects from prehistorical times until 16th. century
If you ever will visit any place anywhere without needing instructions on how to find boiling nightlife, then it is Ibiza. You only need to leave one of the numerous pubs or discotheques, specially in the calle Barcelona, only to enter the next one next door.
The best will be to follow the mass of tourists passing through the streets, and automatically you will be pushed to a local that is "en vogue" in this very moment.
Around the port there are many teraces and restaurants, and small stands where they sell souvenirs until late night.
The smaller villages of the island perhaps don't have a nightlife as boiling as the capital, but at least in San Antonio Abad you won't have the slightest difficulty to find what you are looking for.
Finally, out of the villages there are several big discotheques, with an incredible rate of "beautiful people" per square inch.
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