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The brownish stones of Cabo Formentor are silhouetted against the clear blue waters of the sea, accentuating their rare and savage beauty.
260 meters up on the hill, we see the Cabo Formentor lighthouse and can enjoy an unforgettable panorama of the Mediterranean. On especially clear days, you can even see Ciudadela on Menorca, over 40 kilometer away.
Nearby, in a small town called "Pi de la Posada", the famous Hotel Formentor was built in the middle of a 2.000 hectare wood in 1930.
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The headland has quite a few lookout points with spectacular views. The most well-known is Mirador del Mal Pas , also named Mirador d'es Colomer after the small island Colomer , the view from which can be seen in the picture above. The panorama from Majorca's Finisterre illuminates Menorca in the east, Cala Fiquera in the west, and Alcudia with its sandy beach in the south. But the view of the cliffs below causes even the most fearless to feel weak in the knees. The sea roars 300m below and if that isn't enough, the winds found at the headland are vicious.
In this place a German radio operator and pilot built a private weather station in 1996, which transmitted encoded radio transmissions to the base station 56 km away (a beam radio ). This and other data was then sent all over the world wirelessly. The analyses were used by hotels, organizers, sailing clubs, flying clubs, and others. They are freely available to anyone who has the necessary receiving equipment. The official weather department is located in Puerto Pi , on the [[Palma de Mallorca]|Palma] harbor. It is responsible for international ships, air travel and other sites.
In the southeastern part by Racó de Xot there is a cave with an opening into the sea. It has two entrances located about 8m over the surface of the water. The cave has a length of 90m and a height of 8m and is a part of the most important sources of information from the prehistoric period of talaiot culture.
Its guest register boasts such famous names as Winston Churchill and Haile Selassie.
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