With 82 km of extension, Formentera is the fourth island of the archipelago Island, forming with the nearby Ibiza island, the Pitiuse islands. A 3.6 Km  straits separates the island from Ibiza. The distance between the Formentera and Ibiza harbours is 11 nautical miles. Its form is extended from east to west until the extremity with the Cap de Barbaria to the south and the Sa Pedrera tips and Borrona to the north. The island has 5963 inhabitants with a significant increase of people in summer.
In Formentera we also may find three delightful villages, including surely the outstanding small capital, Sant Francesc Xavier: this small town is very characteristic and really worth for a visit.
Finally, very interesting are the territories at the estremities of the island: the wonderful maritime landscape with its wonderful coast occupied by solitary and white lighthouses that recall the scenario of a postcard.
Behind all this naturalistic magnificence and the quiet life, an uneasy pasti s hidden, it saw the inhabitants of Formentera fighting to try to pull out the life from the boundless salines and the lands dried by the sun; they had to fight against the plagues and the pirates attacks and all this situation took to the abandonment of the island around the end of the 14th century, which remained uninhabited until 1697, when that year the "renaissance" began.