Best traditional towns of Mallorca North

Anyone looking to buy a traditional townhouse in a truly authentic and picture perfect Mallorcan town with a wide range of fantastic beaches on the doorstep should head straight to the Mallorca North region. Our real estate experts at Engel & Völkers Mallorca North are here to help every step of the way.

The beautiful towns of Pollensa, Sa Pobla, Campanet and Alcudia are the ideal location to own an apartment or townhouse and live among an established and thriving local community. With weekly produce and artisanal markets, shops, cafes and restaurants, these stone-built towns offer an insight into a way of life that has existed on the island for hundreds of years. What’s more, unlike tourist resorts elsewhere on the island, these traditional towns remain active throughout the year. Ideal for anyone looking to relocate to Mallorca North either full time or for large parts of the year.

Owning a house in one of Mallorca North’s traditional towns offers an exceptional quality of life where you can walk to the local shops and restaurants, soak up all the history and culture, cycle out into the countryside or down to the beach.

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For anyone wanting to be in the best position to take part in some the finest traditional fiestas and celebrations on the island—many of which attract visitors from Palma and beyond year after year—then the pretty town of Pollensa is hard to beat. Steeped in history and famous for its Calvary Steps, Pollensa was “discovered” by a colony of artists, writers and musicians in the last century with the result that it’s become something of a hotspot for Mallorca’s intelligentsia ever since.

The main square in Pollensa is home to one of Mallorca’s finest Sunday markets but there are plenty of other shops and boutiques along the town’s warren of cobbled and paved streets. Pollensa is also home to one of three workshops which manufacturers the distinctive “cloth of tongues” fabric—it’s been in business for more than 160 years.

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Untouched by the scars of tourism and set within the majestic foothills of the Traumuntana mountains, the village of Campanet is considered something of an undiscovered gem in Mallorca North. Offering a truly authentic Mallorcan lifestyle, there’s a weekly fresh produce market held in the pretty town square.

Campanet, and the surrounding countryside, is ideal for property buyers who are happy to embrace the rural way of life. But don’t be deceived, in the valleys that surround the town lie some of the island’s grandest fincas and country estates. The British singer James Blunt married his aristocratic wife, Sofia Wellesley, in a chapel in Campanet back in 2014.

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History lovers will adore what the old town of Alcudia has to offer—especially the historic townhouses set within the ancient Moorish fort walls. It’s widely considered to be one of the prettiest towns in the whole of the island and lies just one kilometre from the vast white sand beach in Puerto Alcudia. Over the centuries, this small town has born witness to the island’s history and boasts many cultural and architectural gems—it’s even home to the smallest Roman amphitheatre in all of Spain.

A warren of narrow streets runs through Alcudia’s old town which has a car-free centre where a twice weekly market takes place.

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If you want to escape the tourists and live truly among the locals, the farming town of Sa Pobla is where to start your property search. Its streets are filled with attractive town houses, it’s far off the map for most tourists and yet it’s only a short drive from one of Mallorca North’s finest beaches, Playa de Muro. The town is considered to be the capital of agriculture on the island and its coveted potato produce is exported around the world—there’s even an annual festival held in honour of the potato.

Sa Pobla also enjoys an enviable position on the edge of the Albufera nature reserve, Mallorca North’s splendid wetland area so is a magical place to buy a house for those who want to be active and hike or cycle along the many trails.

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