Mallorca Coast

Mallorca's coast faces the western Mediterranean from the largest of the Balearic Islands. Along its northern shore the Serra de Tramuntana rises above the sea, with steep slopes shaped by terraces and dry-stone walls. The rugged coastline offered vantage points from which guards could watch the surrounding waters. Lookouts were recorded here from the fourteenth century; in the sixteenth, a network of towers was built to warn communities of approaching pirates and other hostile ships.