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Western Mallorca

'A sky like turquoise, a sea like lapis lazuli, mountains like emerald, air like heaven', enthused Romantic composer Chopin of his new home Valldemossa in 1838. His words ring true almost two centuries later in western Mallorca.

View of Galatzo Estate from trail between Es Capdella to Estellencs.

©Andrew Montgomery/Lonely Planet

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