Just outside Ses Salines is Botanicactus, Mallorca's largest botanical garden. Not just given over to cacti, its 15 hectares bristle with palms, bamboo groves, cypress, carob, orange trees and (naturally) plants with prickles. A wander among its 1600-plus species of Mediterranean, exotic and wetland plants is pleasant in fine weather.
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1. Poblat Talaiòtic dels Antigors
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