If you are planning a holiday in Ciudadela, Menorca, the following information may help by giving you an overview on the resort.

Where Mahon is bureaucratic, Ciudadela [also known as Ciutadella] is artistic. The nobility and the church stayed behind when the capital was moved to Mahon, with the result that Ciudadela remains a pure Catalan city, undiluted by British or French architecture or the ideas that colonial rulers brought in their wake.

Wander Ciudadela’s maze of narrow streets fanning out from the cathedral, the Gothic palaces each marked by a coat of arms carved about the door; sit beneath the palm trees in the Plaza des Born at dusk; join the citizens for their annual festival when richly decorated and ornamented horses ride through the streets.