Artà WebA town on limestone

Artà and the Llevant coast of Mallorca — its stone, its caves, its coastline, its water.

Section 03

A shoreline that stayed awkward

The Llevant park, and why it was not built on.

Rocky ridge with pine forest and grassy scrubland under a clear blue sky
The Llevant peninsula: scrub, rock and nothing built. The protection arrived after the awkwardness, not before it. A protected coast that was awkward first →Photo: ES-Arta - 2025-05-27 - Parc natural de la península de Llevant (DSC 6142) · Wikimedia Commons
SIGHTLINE TO THE NEXT TOWERWATERLINE NOTCHTRACK — THE REASON IT STAYED EMPTYLOW SCRUB, NO INFRASTRUCTUREHEADLAND IN SECTION · TOWER PLACED ON THE SIGHTLINE

Drawn

The Llevant profile: low scrub, a rock arm, and a tower placed where it can see the next one.