Cala Virgili
| Cala Virgili beach | ||
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| location | Manacor municipality | |
| Geographical location | 39 ° 28 '58 " N , 3 ° 17' 11" E | |
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| length | 20 m | |
| width | 30 m | |
| nature | Sand and rocks | |
| water | Seagrass deposits possible | |
| Surroundings | natural | |
| tourism | ||
| Visitor frequency | little visited | |
| Parking spaces | near the road to Cales de Mallorca | |
| monitoring | No | |
| Nudism | Yes | |
| next hospital | Hospital de Manacor (18.6 km) | |
| next port | Porto Cristo (7.7 km) | |
| Beaches and bays in Mallorca | ||
Cala Virgili ( ' Virgili Bay ') is a small bay on the east coast of the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . It is located in the southeast of the municipality of Manacor between the towns of Cales de Mallorca and S'Estany d'en Mas .
Location and description
The Cala Virgili is a rocky sea inlet about 400 meters long and 20 to 200 meters wide on the cliffs of Manacor, about 11 kilometers southeast of the main town of the municipality. The west-facing bay is bounded by the Ses Maleres peninsula to the north and by Punta de ses Penyes Altes to the south . The immediate hinterland of Cala Virgili , the Marina de s'Hospitalet , is undeveloped. It is part of the 6.27 km² large natural area of special value (Àrea natural d'especial interès - ANAI) of the Cales Verges de Manacor , according to the Natural Area Act (ANAI / ARIP) to protect the soil from construction.
The bay forms the mouth of the Regueró de Cala Virgili , a torrent that only carries water after heavy rainfall. It rises about 450 meters east of the ruins of the prehistoric village of S'Hospitalet Vell . In front of the mouth on the beach of Cala Virgili , rubble is deposited by the torrent . The Ses Maleres peninsula, only about 350 meters long, as the northern limit of Cala Virgili, does not extend into the open sea, so that the bay with the neighboring Cala Pilota and Cala Magraner forms a common sea inlet, the northeasternmost point of which is called Punta des Moro . Approximately in the middle of Ses Maleres , facing Cala Virgili , there is the Cova de ses Dones ('Cave of Women'), which is filled with water through an underground connection to the sea.
The 20 meter long beach of Cala Virgili is up to 30 meters wide and framed by rocks on both sides. While the north side is only overgrown with low bushes, there are some pine trees in the south on the rocky slope and in the west behind the beach . The beach consists of fine sand, which is interspersed with small and large stones in the water near the shore. Behind the sand area there is plenty of deposited rubble without vegetation through the Regueró , translated as 'trickle'. Seagrass deposits can form on the shoreline . About 25 meters from the beach there is a boat shelter ( escar in Catalan ) built into the coastal cliffs on the south side of the bay , the concrete roof of which is secured by supports in the interior due to its dilapidation .
The Cala Virgili is little visited, from time to time by locals from the approximately 1.7 kilometers in a straight line away Cales de Mallorca. Hikers also come across the bay from time to time. An original plan from 1962 to include Cala Virgili and other neighboring bays in the settlement area of Cales de Mallorca was not implemented. Only one access road was partially completed, the now unpaved access road to the bay.
Access
From the MA-4014 road between Porto Cristo and Portocolom , the road to Cales de Mallorca branches off to the southeast about 10 kilometers after Porto Cristo (at kilometer stone 6). From this, after a little over two kilometers, at the underpass of the Regueró de Cala Bóta stream , a wide, unpaved path leads off to the left, which ends behind a passage to the right of a large gate on a curved path through the nature reserve running northeast at Cala Magraner . From here, further paths branch off one after the other in an easterly direction to the bays of Cala Bóta , Cala Virgili and Cala Pilota . The distance from the gate to Cala Virgili is about 2.3 kilometers.
literature
- Bartomeu Amengual Gomila: Mallorca's coasts from the air . Detailed and practical travel guide with aerial photos of Mallorca's coasts. 6th edition. Editorial GeoPlaneta, Barcelona 2000, ISBN 84-08-01821-3 , Cala Varques, p. 66 (Spanish, original title: Aeroguía del litoral de Mallorca . Translated by Gabriele Grauwinkel and Susanne Pospiech).
- Miguel Ángel Álvarez Alperi: Comprehensive Beach Guide Mallorca + Cabrera . 1st edition. Ediciones El Cohete, Gijón 2001, ISBN 84-87933-08-4 , Platja Cala Virgili, p. 106 .
- Belén Menéndez Solar: Guide de Playas de Mallorca . 1st edition. Ediciones El Cohete, Gijón 2008, ISBN 978-84-87933-11-0 , Cala Virgili, p. 81 (Spanish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senderisme a Mallorca. Consell de Mallorca, accessed 29 July 2013 (interactive map).
- ↑ Islas Baleares - Area Natural de Especial Interés Calas de Manacor. www.porlibre.com, archived from the original on November 25, 2013 ; Retrieved July 29, 2013 (Castilian).
- ^ Escenaris de Biodiversitat a Manacor. Cales Verges de Manacor. Ajuntament de Manacor, June 14, 2011, p. 17 , accessed on July 29, 2013 (Catalan, PDF file, 4467.52 KB).
- ↑ a b c Miguel Ángel Álvarez Alperi: All the beaches of Mallorca . 1st edition. Laluzenpapel, 2012, ISBN 978-84-938783-1-3 , beach of Cala Virgili, p. 187 (Spanish, original title: Todas las playas de Mallorca . Translated by Meike Schirmeister).
- ↑ Bartomeu Amengual Gomila: Mallorca's coasts from the air . Detailed and practical travel guide with aerial photos of Mallorca's coasts. 6th edition. Editorial GeoPlaneta, Barcelona 2000, ISBN 84-08-01821-3 , Cales de Mallorca, p. 64 (Spanish, original title: Aeroguía del litoral de Mallorca . Translated by Gabriele Grauwinkel and Susanne Pospiech).
