Can Picafort

Can Picafort is situated at nine kilometres from Santa Margalida. It is the most popular touristic, residential and urban of this municipality, and one of the oldest of the bay of Alcúdia, including the marina with the same name and the camping area Platja Blava, the only one in Majorca together with Colònia de Sant Pere. But it is surrounded by virgin areas of the dunes of Son Real, Parque Natural de s’Albufera and Platja des Comú. This crowded and very long beach with fine-grained golden sand has the port facilities on the right side and the quiet beaches of Casetes des Capellans and es Comú on the left. The writer Concha Alós set her novel Las hogueras, which won the Premio Planeta in 1964, in the quiet Can Picafort at the end of the fifties of the 20th century. 

The navigators must know that the entrance to Club Esportiu Can Picafort is a bit complicated, especially passing the breakwater, and at 150 metres from here there is a sandbank, known as Escull de Can Barret, with a buoy, which you have to avoid. 
The accessibility by car is easy following the signs. The private car might be left in the streets nearby, and the nearest bus stop is located at 100 metres. 

These characteristics explain that the beach is crowded by local visitors and tourists. 

Information about this beach may change. To confirm the data or consult changes or new features, please contact the municipal tourism office below: 
Tourist Information – Can Picafort 
General information on the island: 
Tourist Information – Mallorca 

Municipality information Santa Margalida

The municipality of Santa Margalida is situated in the northeast of Majorca. The name is given by this saintliness. The existence of the hagio-toponymic church is known since 1243. 

The landscape is quite flat, with some canyons and torrents and there are some hills which are not very high (sa Teulada, 116 metres). The interior area occupies the biggest part of the extension of this municipality (unirrigated agricultural land and forest), whereas the coast goes toward the interior for two kilometres with a system of dunes and is nine kilometres long. The ecological richness in the area between Son Real and Son Serra (1114 hectares) explains that it was declared Àrea Natural d’Especial Interès by the Parlament de les Illes Balears in 1991. 

This municipality has the most arqueological sites of Majorca per square metre (153), which indicates a strong human presence during the prehistory, whereas many margaliders emigrated toward America and Algeria during the 19th century. In the seventies of the following century the sector of service, tourism and construction began to lead the economy, replacing the agriculture and farming as well as the crisis. 

Its cultural variety includes the Necrópolis de Son Real (national historical monument since 1964), the dolmen tomb of Son Bauló, Illot des Porros, Església de Santa Margalida, Casal de Santa Eulària, the possessió (rural finca) of Son Serra, Pou d’Hero. 
The municipality has 7 beaches.