Palma, Valldemossa and Esporles

This is the classic short ride from Palma into the Tramuntana: up to Valldemossa and back down through Esporles. It starts and finishes at La Molienda Arxiduc, a short walk north of Plaça d’Espanya.

The road to Valldemossa climbs for about 17 km, but most of it is a gentle drag out of the city. The real climbing comes in the last five kilometres, at around 5 %, up to the village at about 400 m.

Valldemossa has three specialty coffee shops within a few minutes’ walk of each other, Roseta, Barbaflorida and Cocou, so it is the obvious place to stop.

From Valldemossa the route climbs a little further, to about 500 m, before a long descent through Esporles and back across the plain to Palma: 43 km and about 590 m of climbing in all. Leaving and entering Palma means some city traffic, which is lighter early in the morning.

The figures on this page come from OpenStreetMap and the official Spanish terrain model, not yet from a ride by a local.