It begins with a lie. The road to Sa Calobra – Mallorca’s most iconic climb – starts at the top. To ride it, you first descend 700 metres through a ribbon of hairpins carved into the Tramuntana ...

The vista was so majestic that I had to hit the brakes: the jagged limestone peaks of Mallorca’s Tramuntana Mountains tumbled down to the cobalt-blue waters of the Balearic Sea, like one of those ...