Balearic Islands

The archipelago of the Balearic Islands sthe it finds in the Mediterranean Sea placed really in front of the shore Spanish of east to distance of around 240 kilometers from the city of Valencia. Altogether the archipelago develops a surface of 5000 squared Km. The most greater islands are Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza, two of averages dimensions Formentera and it will Zoom and numerous other islets of smaller importance. The Balearic ones form an autonomous Community and they are one of the 50 Spanish provinces. The administrative capital of the Balearic Islands is Palm of Mallorca. The single surfaces of the islands measure: 3640 Kmq Majorca, 669 kmq Menorca, 572 kmq Ibiza, 115 kmq Formentera.

For tradition to the Balearic Islands water has always been extracted through the mills to wind, that you/they represent a note absolutely characteristic of these irrigated grounds, in prevalence in the island in Majorca. Despite in the last decades is built quite a lot with the motivation to welcome a greater quantity of tourists, however it currently results preserved the connected traditional architecture to the popular patrimony.

Generally the climate to the Balearic Islands it is mild and typically Mediterranean with an average of the summer temperatures around the 27°. During the year the days of rain have varied since 70 to the 90, mainly assembled in the months of November, February and April, during the other periods the climate of the Balearic Islands it boasts over 300 days of shining sun. The suitable months to visit the islands are May, June, September and October, when the climate is still mild, avoiding the overcrowding of the tourists of the tall season. At times the islands are interested from the characteristic wind of North wind in the winter to the Balearic Islands, that it makes during the summer months a pleasant refreshing breeze. Many vacationers have a preference for these earths for the delicious mitigated climate and for their geographical position, for this motive the Balearic ones are also defined as the islands in the eternal spring.

As it regards the I use some telephone we remember whether to call from the Balearic Islands toward Italy it needs to compose the international prefix +39 followed by the fixed number or from the jail cell. To call from Italy to Spain, the prefix to use it is 0034. Generally for the telephones jail cell don't exist particular problems.

For tradition imported by the English to the Balearic Islands, in the cafes, in the restaurants and to the personnel of the hotel it is custom to give a tip equal to around 10-15% of the sum of the account.

Many tourists prefer to bring them in vacation the animal of affection, to respect it needs to verify that the select hotel accepts the pets or less. We remember however that generally in the public exercises and in some beaches it is forbidden to introduce animals.

Also Spain has stuck to the unique coin, therefore the currency official to the Balearic Islands it is the European one, as in the rest of the Spanish territory.

The sanitary assistance to the Balearic Islands it results of good level with good structures, To free have some cares it is necessary to have to the succession her It enrolls European of Assistance Illness or it Enrolls Sanitary, while for the tourists coming from extraeuropean countries a form is necessary of private sanitary insurance.

To the Balearic Islands the languages official languages I am the Catalan and the Castilian. In the tourist places it also speaks English and German. L' Italian always in the devoted zones to the tourism it easily comes inclusive and a lot of times also spoken, this for the greater presence always of the present fellow countrymen in Spain for motives for tourism.

To go to the Balearic Islands among the necessary Documents it needs the paper of valid identity for the expatriation. The European conventions in subject of transports recognize the validity of the licence of qualification of Italian guide for the one who wants to reach the Balearic islands with the auto or to rent on the spot.

The city of Ibiza is the chief town of the Pitiuses, formed by the islands of ibiza and formentera, that preserve quite a lot traces of the past. In the You century a.C. it was a colony Phoenician Carthaginian very important. It served to cartagine as strategic base to dominate the basin of the Mediterranean one. An evident example is the necropolis of Puig des Molins, as it reveals the name it is found in a tall zone of the city and the mills to wind they were of the existing flour stores in last century. In the necropolis they are situated around 4000 graves of the Carthaginian period and Roman.