Cala Tuent is a small bay dominated and protected by the northern side of the Puig Major promontory, the highest mount of the whole island of Mallorca: on the Puig side that abrupt descends until we arrive on the coast where have been built a series of buildings, in particular very nice and well-cured small villas.
This area of the northern region is very nice, with its old orchards that color the landscape and, in some way, mitigate the severity of the territory and tone down the hard and dry ground of the mountain.
Once arrived to the shore, there is a fantastic beach washed by a sea equally wondeful: here the sand that is a mixture of gravel and thin grains, that make the place very particular.
In any case this area is ideal to retire fro a bit from the summer chaos, perhaps for a day or for a few hours, since the lido is one of the quietest throughout the northern coast.
It is important to note that here water is really fantastic and particularly inviting, but we must be careful to stay close to the shore to avoid finding annoying (and sometimes dangerous) flows.
For those who want to visit this small paradisiac corner, the way to get there is quiet easy: surpassing the Gorg Blau village (which once upon a time was a huge ravine, the perfect natural place able to attract many tourists; then, after the hydroelectric society project, the area has been transformed in a sort of big puddle, occupied by a series of water basino and artificial lakes, unfortunately full of stagnant water!) the road gets bigger among the mountains, inside a long tunnels queue; the roure arises under the sun in the proximity of a big fork that brings to Cala Tuent and arrives to the sa Calabra tourist town.
Once arrived at this junction you must take the path that goes down towards the coast: here the road becomes really tortuous and impervious, with many bends and elbow curves that slow down a lot the journey (even, to a certain point, the road is a wide 270 degrees curve and it rewinds on itself!); we must say that this route, a bit slow, offers an unmatched view that overlooks the sea and on the slope of the mountain, with its orchards and its villas.
Anyway, after 10km of curves and bends, you find yourself in front of a second great bifurcation: if you turn on the road that rises on the hill to the left, the first thing you find, after about 4 kilometers in the car, the Ermita de Sant llorenc, a small medieval Church perched on the hill, which has a fantastic total view on the coast.
Immediately after this very old church, the road arrives down until the Cala Tuent inlet; once here it is a bit difficult to find a parking lot because the space is very limited, but certainly it is worth going!!!
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