Menorca Cala Macarella turquoise cove
— turquoise the cliffs hold in.
Not only on a wall.
Menorca Cala Macarella turquoise cove, 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.
“A horseshoe cove on Menorca's south coast, white sand running into water the colour of pale glass. Pine and juniper come right down to the cliff edge. The smaller sister cove, Macarelleta, sits ten minutes further along the Camí de Cavalls coastal path. In summer the island council caps cars at the trailhead and runs a shuttle from Cala Galdana.
The place, in three passes.
Cala Macarella and its smaller neighbour Cala Macarelleta lie on the south-western coast of Menorca, in Spain's Balearic Islands, within the island's ANEI nature reserve. Both coves cut into pale limestone cliffs hung with Aleppo pine and juniper. They are reached on foot along the Camí de Cavalls, the 185-kilometre coastal path that loops the entire island, with the nearest trailhead at Cala Galdana about 30 minutes east. Menorca itself has been a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1993, and the south coast holds most of its undeveloped beaches.
The colour comes from sunlight reflecting off white limestone sand through very clear, shallow Mediterranean water, the same effect that gives Sardinia's Costa Smeralda and the Greek Ionian coves their pale-glass blues. Calm bays sheltered from the tramuntana north wind keep the surface still through most of the summer. Swimming is easy and the sandy seabed runs out to about thirty metres before the depth drops. Late June through September is the warm-water window, with August sea temperatures around 26°C.
From June through September the Consell Insular de Menorca restricts private cars at the road head and runs a shuttle bus from Cala Galdana; arrive early or hike in along the Camí de Cavalls. There is one beach kiosk for drinks at Macarella; none at Macarelleta. Both coves get crowded by midday in August. The shoulder seasons of May and late September keep the water warm enough for swimming with a fraction of the visitors, and the coastal path is at its best.
