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Vegan options for your holidays in Majorca

Each year more and more residents in Majorca decide to open a business focused in satisfying the consumers needs for vegan options and vegetal origin. 

Having a vegan diet is synonymous of health and the products that are part of this diet are filled with vitamins and minerals, at the same time that are low in calories and saturated fats.

People who decide to enjoy their holidays in Majorca have the chance to taste the classic dishes from the place and combining them with the consumption of vegetal products thanks to the restaurants and vegan places that are growing in the island. 

Majorca and the “Ruta de la Pedra en Sec” (Dry Stone Route), Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The dry stone route in Majorca or dried stone has just turned Cultural Intangible Heritage of Humanity, a route that gives us wonderful scapes and the most amazing hiking routes.

The peculiarity of this millenial building technique is that the stones are stacked up one on other, depending of their shape and size, to get them to stick together without any need of extra material that works as glue. 

The fact of not using cement or any other kind of material allows the water to slide in between the stones on rainy days and prevents these walls, called marges or marjades, to end up falling. 

Majorca and the “Ruta de la Pedra en Sec” (Dry Stone Route), Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Besides, the dry stone technique uses a material that’s very present in the nature, which makes the farmers and breeders to be able to build this walls in a low price, just as cultivating the land on slopes. 

The hiking lovers have a must-do route, the route GR 221 or Dry Stone Route, where it is possible to do short walks in an hour and a half or getting to know the island, the landscapes and the costumes deeply through its paths that cheer the hikers to walk for more than 9 hours. 

Nowadays, almost all the paths on the Route GR 221 have been restored by the Consell de Mallorca, which makes them totally accessible walking for people all ages wherever which physical condition they’re in, since there are different levels of difficulty.