Mallorca, Spain

Sa Calobra

Mallorca's mad masterpiece: twelve kilometres of corkscrewing descent through the Tramuntana range to a pebble cove, including the famous 'tie knot' where the road loops 270 degrees underneath itself.

Best forMountain
Approx. flying time~12h 20m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportPalma de Mallorca (PMI)

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About this place

Engineer Antonio Parietti designed it in the 1930s with no purpose beyond the pleasure of driving it. There's no way out but back up, which is rather the point. Go before 9am — coaches and hire cars clot the bends by mid-morning — and swim at the bottom.

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When to go

Daytime highs run from about 14°C in January to 32°C in July. Driest in July; wettest in September, with rain on about 9 days.

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August31° · rain 3 daysHot and dry.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis). Highlighted months are warm and mostly dry — June to August and October.

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