Tucked away in the north eastern corner of the island, this little village sprung up around one of the biggest and most beautiful beaches on the island.
Protected by a huge cliff to the north, the settlement consists mainly of large hotels, which explains why it remains almost deserted throughout the winter. It does, however, have history by virtue of an ancient cave a few kilometers away up in the hills. The ancient contents of the "Cova d'es Cuilleram" prove the existence of a local community back before the time when the Greeks first discovered the island, to find its tiny population worshipping the goddess Tanit - and many still do?
The tiny villages other claim to fame is that it was the site of the first death of the Spanish Civil War on Ibiza. The victim was Raoul Villain, a political assassin who shot dead the leader of the French Socialist party in a crowded Paris cafe in 1914 - three days before the outbreak of World War 1. After the war he was tried and controversially acquitted before fleeing to Ibiza via South America. However, the socialists had long memories and in August 1936 a boatload of Republican soldiers arrived in the bay, marched Raoul down to the beach and shot him.
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