Formentera

Gecko Hotel & Beach Club can be found on Formentera prettiest beach, the Playa Migjorn and it wants all of 10kms of white sand to stay that way. After a huge renovation project last year, the hotel feels more like a relaxed coastal club than a Balearic posing palace but its taken its footprint on the island a ...

When Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer, the design duo behind Brooklyn's Cold Picnic (arbiters of the boob design trend, and serious couple goals) chose Formentera, an under-the-radar Spanish island, for their honeymoon, we perked up—when they devoted their latest collection to said island, we packed ...

Life's literally a beach for Gennaro Pepe, a glassblower who lives half the year on Formentera, Spain. Everything this artist makes is infused with the Balearic light and the sparkle of the sea. Thanks to Maryam Nassir Zadeh, a one-time student of jewelry design and a fosterer of talent, it's possible, for less ...

"Like the majority of people from Formentera, we would've preferred for local government to have reached an agreement to use state funds to buy s'Espalmador and make it available to the general public," local politician Silvia Tur told Spanish media. It is unclear whether the new owners have the power to ...

S'Espalmador, which occupies 137 hectares and can be reached on foot from Formentera at low tide, has been snapped up by a family from Luxembourg despite efforts to sell it to the Formentera government. A representative for the island's previous owners, the Catalan architect Norman Cinnamond and ...

The southernmost Balearic Island, Formentera — a 12-mile-long, low-lying piney stretch that was abandoned because of the Black Plague in the 14th century and resettled only 300-odd years later — has long been known for its superlative beaches and water that's striped so many shades of blue it looks ...