Cap de Formentor cliffs
— the cliff that finishes the island.
Not only on a wall.
Cap de Formentor cliffs, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The road out to the cape is a famous one. Thirteen kilometres of switchbacks from Port de Pollença, cut into the limestone by the engineer Antoni Paretti in the 1920s, opening onto pull-offs where the Mediterranean drops away to a blue that doesn't seem to belong to a coast. The lighthouse at the end has stood since 1863. The cliffs around it fall almost four hundred metres straight to the sea. People stop at the Mirador des Colomer and don't say much.
The place, in three passes.
Cap de Formentor is the northernmost point of Mallorca, the rocky tail of the Serra de Tramuntana range that runs the length of the island's west coast. The range was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in 2011. The cape is reached by the Ma-2210 road from Port de Pollença, an engineering work begun in the 1920s under Antoni Paretti, who chiselled it into vertical limestone faces. The lighthouse at the tip, Far de Formentor, was designed by Emili Pou and lit in 1863. It still operates, 384 metres above the sea.
The cliffs are Mesozoic limestone, folded and lifted by the same tectonic shove that built the Tramuntana. The cape's headlands — Penya des Migdia, Es Fumat, the Cavall Bernat ridge — read in the late light as a row of grey teeth dropping into deep water. The Mirador des Colomer looks out to a small offshore islet, an isolated stack where Eleonora's falcons nest in summer. The road climbs through holm oak and Aleppo pine before the trees give up and the rock takes over for the last few kilometres.
The cape is open year-round and free to walk. From mid-June through mid-September the Ma-2210 closes to private cars between roughly 10:00 and 19:00; visitors take the shuttle from Port de Pollença, a measure introduced by the Consell de Mallorca to stop traffic locking up on the cliff. The Mirador des Colomer pull-off is a short climb above the road. The lighthouse itself is not open to the public, but the terrace beside it is. Sunset is the busy hour; first light is the quiet one.
