Southwest

This area reaches from the Capital Palma down towards the Port of Andratx. Due to its well-developed infrastructure, there is a higher density of luxury villas and apartments than anywhere else on the island. Although this area was one of the first to receive tourists, after a short time it was the most sought after part of the island to have a second home or holiday place. That's why the South West area has always been one of most attractive areas.

Sandy beaches, beautiful blue bays and various golf courses. Prestigious luxury yacht harbours are the highlights of this area. Famous bars, hotels, restaurants and designer shops are well presented in the southwest and easily accessed in a short amount of time.

The high demand of sea view properties in this part of the island, made that recent developers and constructors are reforming the existing properties, and constructing beautiful new build properties.
Bendinat / Puerto Portals / Port Andratx are well known names in the world from the jet set and are very famous for their luxury and high quality estates.

Upcoming areas like Port Adriano, Nova Santa Ponsa and Sol de Mallorca are alternative areas, with great potential and more new developed properties.

Located 28 km from Palma, with 3,200 inhabitants, the port of Andratx is the westernmost port in Mallorca, and therefore closest to the island of Ibiza, located just 80 miles away. Port Andratx is one of the few professional fishing ports, where you can buy the daily catch after 4pm on weekdays, from its renovated fish market. It is also one of the most beautiful natural harbours in the Mediterranean, with crystalline waters that are perfect for bathing in two of its little bays. So clean and protected are the waters that fish varieties gilt-head and sea bass are also harvested here.

The Yacht Club www.cvpa.es, founded in 1968, has European environmental quality certifications (including ISO 14001), and has 475 moorings, as well as 182 moorings managed by the Government of Mallorca. The Yacht Club also has an important sailing school for small sail boats and canoes, with a range of possibilities for residents and visitors.

It was completely reformed in the summer of 2013.

The port of Andratx has grown from a fishing port into one of the most desirable places for second homes. With no large sandy beach, mass tour operators have historically kept away, and so the port has preserved its original character and is a perfect place for year round living. The many excellent restaurants, boutiques and shops make the port a lively social and shopping area, and a coffee, drink or meal on the sea front is a “must” for any visitor or resident, enjoyable throughout the year.

Located between Port Adriano and Portals, Sol de Mallorca has about 800 inhabitants and is situated 21 km west of Palma. It has three beautiful coves with three sandy beach, called ""the cove of the three fingers."" It is a very quiet and spacious area, much of it natural green area, and there are no hotels, just apartments and private villas.

There is also a small marina where boats of up to 12 meters can be moored. Just 3 kms away is Golf de Poniente, www.ponientegolf.com/index_en.html and also just 3 kms away is the exclusive beach club, Nikki Beach, and the endless sands of Magalluf bay, www.nikkibeach.com/destinations/beach-clubs/mallorca/. The international school Baleares International College, is also located here - www.balearesint.net.

With 12,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous nucleus in the municipality of Calvia. Situated 20 km from Palma, it has two sandy beaches, one of about 500 meters long and very wide with a playground and beach volley to the rear, and another, called ""playa pequeña” (small beach), which is just thirty meters long. In centre and right hand side of the bay of Santa Ponsa is the traditional hotel zone, while on the left hand side is the exclusive residential area, called Nova Santa Ponsa.

The Club Nautico Santa Ponsa, www.cnsp.es was built in 1975 and benefits from the natural geography of a cove called ""sa Caleta"". It features 522 berths for boats from 5 to 20m, and the harbour mouth is commemorated with a cross of the conquest, where the forces of King James I arrived from Aragon to retake the island from the Arabs in the 13th century.

Novo Santa Ponsa has three golf courses, www.golf-santaponsa.com/en as well as the Country Club, with its gym, indoor and outdoor pools, restaurant, tennis and paddle tennis facilities as well as a mini club for the children, www.spcountryclub.com/en/index.asp

The other marina is at Port Adriano, www.portadriano.com/en/. Although originally built in 1970 as El Toro Marine, it was expanded and totally reformed with a project by Philippe Starck in 2012. It is one of the few marinas on the island able to berth superyachts up to 100 meters in length, and features extensive exclusive shopping areas, bars, restaurants and coffee bars.

The village of Calvia is the capital of the municipality, one of the richest in Spain due to the hospitality industry. The municipality has an area of 145 km2 with 26 beaches and includes the mountains of the Sierra Tramuntana. In Calvia village, there are 2,600 inhabitants, and every Monday there is a market here. Near the town of Calvia, there are two equestrian centres, one is the Espas Club, www.club-equitacionmallorca.com on the road to Puigpunyent, and the other is the Pony Club Calvia, www.ponyclubcalvia.com located on the road between Calvia and Palmanova. In both Calvia and Son Font there are fincas and villas with horse riding facilities.

Son Font is a development located in the mountains above the village of Calvia. The main water supply of Calvia used to come from ""Son Font"", hence its name, and today it is an urbanization of luxury fincas, most with distant sea views and spectacular views of mountains and countryside. It is part of the Sierra de Tramontana, a protected Unesco heritage site, so it is a very quiet area of natural beauty and sea views. Its location is ideal, since, in less than a 20 minute`s drive, you can be in the port of Andratx, in the area of Portals/Bendinat or the city of Palma.

In this section we cover the inland areas within the municipality of Calvia and Andratx, many of which have distant views of the sea. The village of Calvia and the urbanization of Son Font, have their own separate section. Here we also include the areas of Es Capdella, with 1,100 inhabitants, Galilea with 318 inhabitants, as well as the areas of Sa Coma Caliente, Sa Coma Freda and area from the village of Andratx to the village of Estellenc. Here we also include houses that are not on the coast, between Palma and Estellencs.

These three small urban areas are located just 8km from Palma in the municipality of Calvia. Portals, with approximately 2,700 inhabitants, is the center of commerce and services and also home of two international schools, the King Richard III College, www.kingrichardcollege.com/es/ and Agora, www.nace.edu.es/portals/Paginas/default.aspx.

Bendinat, with 525 inhabitants, is divided into old Bendinat, at sea level with the beach and hotel of Bendinat, and Bendinat Golf, a residential area of villas family houses and apartments, built close to or around the Royal Bendinat Golf Club, www.realgolfbendinat.com/en/ and Bendinat Castle, built in neo-gothic style by marques of La Romana in the nineteenth century.

The urbanization of Costa den Blanes, with 2,010 inhabitants, is a development of single-family residential villas situated on a hill with panoramic sea views. The marina of Puerto Portals, www.puertoportals.com/en is one of the most exclusive in the Mediterranean offers a wide range of bars, restaurants and shops.

One of the most luxurious hotels in Mallorca, on the front line and with direct access to the sea, is the St. Regis Mardavall, www.stregismardavall.com/en. Also close by is the Sporting Tennis Paddle club, www.sportingtenispadel.com on the sea front, where you can play tennis or paddle tennis, followed by a dip in the sea.