In autumn we organize chestnut festival to spend a cheerful day with music and taste of chestnut product. In Amelia we have a little sitting room next to the bar, where we serve breakfast and even lunch and dinner in winter period (booking required). We also have typical dishes like soups, tripe, livornese salted codfish. The nearby beach Cala Torta is also famous and popular.Our cuisine offers genuine and simple plates of Tuscan tradition such as fresh homemade pasta, game and mushrooms.
You should really drive up to the northeast for a day and visit this pretty town close to Cala Ratjada. The guests especially recommend the restaurants “Jardi D’Arta”, “Sant Salvador”, “Na Creu” and the “Café Parisien”. A tasty piece of strawberry cake with a café con leche, and then just enjoy the bustle of the small town with its flair. These really invite you to linger in the alleys. The pretty town centre offers many small stores, shopping possibilities as well as petite restaurants, cafes and bars. From the terrace, one enjoys a surround view of the coast and the hilly countryside, almond plantations, groves of oil trees, the Torre de Canyamel as well as the gothic, fortified parish church (Transfiguració del Senyor) directly beneath the hill. Characterizing is the cohesive overall picture of the town with its steep, narrow roads, that start at the foot of the mountain, and are dominated by the medieval fortress walls of the pilgrimage church Sant Salvador standing on the peak of the town. The town Arta with its 6400 residents is a medieval town with historic centre and definitely worth visiting. Further recommendations are the restaurant “Mama Pizza” and the steakhouse “Porto Fino”. The restaurants “Noahs” and “Pasta Pasta” have a dream view across the sea and one can enjoy tasteful dining or having breakfast there. From the harbour, you can go on various trips with the trip boat, and a speed ferry to Menorca can also be booked. Cala Ratjada features many stores, shopping possibilities such as a Lidl, many restaurants, night clubs and bars. The beaches of the town are the well know Cala Agulla, Cala Son Moll and the Cala Gat. Today, these buildings are under preservation order. They are white, square shaped buildings, in which the crayfish were kept alive in seawater basins before being sold. East of the harbour, the historic “crayfish” houses were preserved. In the 1970s many hotels were then built in the course of the construction boom. The first hotel in Cala Ratjada was opened in 1885, called the “Hostal Ca’s Bambu”. Cala Ratjada is about 80 km away from the island’s capital Palma. The touristic port town lies in Majorca’s northeast and is very popular among German speaking holiday makers especially. The village Valldemossa has only about 1700 residents. The restaurant “Casa de Sa Miranda” is also recommended by many guests. The slightly hidden restaurant “Quita Penas” is highly praised for its tapas. In the alleys of Valldemossa you can find many restaurants and shops. Specialities of the village are a refreshment drink made from almonds and a bread-like snack made from potato. It offers information about the nature of Serra de Tramuntana, the mountains in the northwest of Majorca, as well as regularly held cultural events. Valldemossa also features the culture centre Costa Nord, which emerged following an initiative by American actor Michael Douglas. The former monastery has been converted for visitors: Typicall Majorcan objects and “Chopin-relics” are presented. More than 100.000 tourists visit this village every year, many of them to see the domicile in which Chopin and Sand lived.
However, their visit had to be aborted after two months, because Chopin’s illness (tuberculosis) worsened.
During their stay, they lived in the former Carthusian monastery, the Cartause of Valldemossa from 1399. She later wrote a book called “A Winter In Majorca” about this particular winter with Chopin, in which she describes the landscape in great detail. This mountain village became famous through the composer Frédéric Chopin, who spent the winter of 1838/39 here with the French writer George Sand.
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