Formentera

Formentera is the smallest of the four main Balearic Islands and the only one that forms a single municipality. It lies south of Ibiza, separated from it by a shallow channel, and it has no airport: you arrive by boat from the port of Eivissa at La Savina, the island's only harbour.

The island is long and almost flat, with two ends of very different character. To the west, the Es Trucadors peninsula narrows northwards into a succession of sandy beaches —Ses Illetes and Llevant— facing the posidonia meadows of the channel, included in the site UNESCO inscribed in 1999 along with the city of Ibiza. To the east, the plateau of La Mola rises above cliffs and ends at its lighthouse. Between the two lie the island's villages: Sant Francesc Xavier, the capital, Sant Ferran de ses Roques, Es Pujols and El Pilar de la Mola.

This is a place of very small scale, with services sized for a small population and a marked seasonality: summer multiplies the activity and winter reduces it sharply. Building is tightly restricted and the supply of housing is scarce, so the market moves in small volumes and almost always in resale property. To live here all year round you have to be prepared to depend on the boat for almost anything that is not on the island.