Cabrera Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Balearic island
About Cabrera
Cabrera extends 5.5 km east-west and the same north-south, but it's deeply indented by coves so few points are more than 500 m from the sea. A spine of limestone hills rises to around 150 m (the highest to 172 m) ending abruptly in sea-cliffs. It has a semi-arid Mediterranean climate, withmaquisvegetation and pine trees; "Cabrera" means goats but these were removed in the early 20th century. The poor soil and lack of water made it a precarious place to live, but Cabrera was inhabited from prehistory, and several civilisations have had outposts here, watching out for their maritime opponents. The bastion above the main inlet and anchorage of Es Port was built around the 1390s, to be intermittently smashed then rebuilt. The last phase of military use was by Spain from 1916 to 1986, then the
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