Formentor Lighthouse, at the northern tip of Mallorca

The lighthouse closes the Formentor road, about 20 km of bends from Port de Pollença above the cliffs of the peninsula. The tower is 22 m tall, but its light is 210 m above the sea: the highest in Mallorca. Today it runs by itself, remotely controlled and solar-powered, and the old lighthouse keepers' houses have a catering service.

Six years of building on a cape with no road

It was part of the series of lighthouses built in Mallorca so that ships could navigate safely at night, and it was the hardest of its time. Work began in 1857 and the first two and a half years went on opening the track to carry up the materials, with more than two hundred workers. They also worked on Sundays and holidays, and the Bishop of Mallorca had an altar set up right there so they could hear Mass before starting the day. It was inaugurated in 1863, with the keepers' houses beside the tower.

May to October: the barrier at km 8.7

The Consell de Mallorca, owner of the Ma-2210, regulates access every summer with the DGT (Spain's traffic authority). In 2026 it applied from 15 May to 18 October, from 10:00 to 22:00. The last stretch, from Formentor beach (the barrier at km 8.7) to the lighthouse, admits only authorised vehicles: the TIB shuttle bus, bicycles, residents, emergency vehicles and cars of people with reduced mobility with the V-15 sign and a permit requested from the DGT three working days in advance. No taxis or hire cars. You go up on line 334, which leaves Port de Pollença roughly every 35 minutes, or by bike.

If you enter by car before 10:00, you must have passed km 8.6 by 9:58 or you will be fined. Stopping outside the marked spaces is also fined, even with one wheel over the white line. The dates change each year: check them on the Consell's Formentor website or the DGT's before you go.

Out of season, by car

Outside those dates, and in season before 10:00 and after 22:00, the road is open to everyone. In November you can drive up to the lighthouse in your own car; bus 334 does not run then.

On the way: es Colomer, Cala Figuera and Cala Murta

The road passes the es Colomer viewpoint, beside the Albercutx watchtower, descends to Formentor beach and continues above Cala Figuera, Cala Murta and Cala en Gossalba, where the bus has a stop. The peninsula belonged to the family of the poet Miquel Costa i Llobera, who wrote El pi de Formentor here. From the sea you see it on the boat excursion to the cape.