21 amazing things to do in Ibiza
Every guide to Ibiza opens with the same landmarks, and the big ones do earn their spot. But these 21 are the places I'd actually walk you to: the icons worth your time, plus the quiet corners and viewpoints that never make the lists.
Baluard de Santa Llucia★ 4.8 · Free · 20 minutes★ Tip: This is the sunset spot in Ibiza Town, and it costs nothing. Come about 40 minutes before and take the corner facing west, over the rooftops rather than the port. Directions
Cala Bassa★ 4.3 · Free (beds EUR 30+) · Half dayA wide, shallow, sheltered bay of white sand backed by juniper, with the island's best known beach club on the sand. Directions
Cala ComteFree · Half day★ Tip: Skip the main bay and take the path north along the rocks: the same water, the same sunset, a fraction of the people. Come for the sunset and stay after it, when the car park empties in ten minutes. Directions
Cala d'HortFree · Half day★ Tip: It is a small beach with a small car park and it fills by eleven in August. Arrive before ten or come at five, when the light on the rock is better anyway. Directions
Cala Salada★ 4.5 · Free · Half day★ Tip: Cala Saladeta is the better half and you have to scramble five minutes over the rocks to reach it. Wear something on your feet. The road down is often closed to cars in peak season, with a shuttle instead. Directions
Cova de Can Marca★ 4.1 · EUR 12 · 1 hourA cave in the cliff above Port de Sant Miquel, used by smugglers into the last century and now walked on a guided route through chambers and an underground waterfall. Directions
Dalt VilaFree · 2-3 hours★ Tip: There is a public lift from Placa del Parc that carries you most of the way up, and almost no visitor finds it. Go up by lift and walk down: the descent is where the views are, and the cobbles are brutal in the other direction. Directions
Es VedraFree · 1 hour★ Tip: The view everyone photographs is not from the beach but from the Torre des Savinar watchtower on the cliff above Cala d'Hort. It is a rough 15-minute walk from the parking and it puts the rock at eye level. Directions
Hippy Market Punta Arabi★ 4.3 · Free entry · 2 hoursThe oldest hippy market on the island, running at Es Canar since 1973, and the bigger of the two: around 500 stalls on Wednesdays through the season. Directions
Ibiza Cathedral★ 4.5 · Free · 30 minutesCatedral de Santa Maria d'Eivissa sits at the very top of Dalt Vila, Gothic underneath and rebuilt in the 18th century over what was a mosque and, before that, a Roman temple. Directions
Las Dalias★ 4.2 · Free entry · 2-3 hours★ Tip: The Saturday market is the big one and runs all year. In summer there is also a Sunday market and the Namaste night market on Tuesdays, which is a far better evening than it sounds. Directions
PortinatxFree · Half dayThe north coast in one place: three small coves in a sheltered inlet, pine to the waterline, and a low-key village that stayed low-key. Directions
Puig de MissaFree · 1 hourThe fortified hilltop church above Santa Eularia, whitewashed and built to double as a refuge from pirates: thick walls, a covered porch and a view down the east coast. Directions
Puig des Molins Necropolis★ 4.7 · EUR 2.40 · 1 hourThe largest and best preserved Phoenician-Punic necropolis in the western Mediterranean: more than 3,000 tombs cut into the hillside just outside the walls. Directions
Sa Pedrera de Cala d'Hort (Atlantis)★ 4.6 · Free · 3 hours★ Tip: The path down is steep, unmarked and genuinely unsafe in the wet or in the dark. Go in the morning, take twice the water you think, and do not attempt the descent in flip-flops. Directions
Sant Antoni de PortmanyFree · Half dayThe island's second town, a working harbour with a reputation it is slowly outgrowing. Directions
Santa Gertrudis de FruiteraFree · 2 hours★ Tip: This is where the money resets. A full menu del dia here is about EUR 15, against EUR 40 for the same lunch on a beach terrace twenty minutes away. Directions
Ses Salines★ 4.3 · Free · Half day★ Tip: The beach is one long strip and the crowd thins the further you walk from the car park. Twenty minutes on foot to the far end buys you a different beach entirely. Directions