Mallorca 312 · start & finish Playa de Muro
Mallorca 226
- Epic
- 230 km
- 3,396 m
- ≈ 9½–11½ h
Map and elevation profile
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Food & coffee stops
Tried-and-tested places where cyclists like to stop for coffee, food or water.
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Café 39 kmRestaurant Coll de sa Bataia Coll de sa Batalla (Escorca), Ma-2130 at the Ma-10 junction near Lluc
Legendary cyclists' café beside the Repsol station, 150 m off the Ma-10: almond cake, pa amb oli, bike racks, tools and a floor pump; daily 7 am–6 pm.
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Café 82 kmReynés Deià
Village bakery and grocery right on the Ma-10 in Deià: fresh sandwiches, ensaimadas and cold drinks to go, open daily 9:30 am–9 pm; a favourite quick cyclist stop.
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Café 117 kmRestaurant es Grau Ma-10 km 98 between Estellencs and Andratx (Mirador de Ricardo Roca)
Self-service clifftop café on the Ma-10 by the Ricardo Roca viewpoint: coffee, cake or a baguette above the sea; roughly 10 am–5 pm, may close Thursdays.
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Café 138 kmBar Nou Es Capdellà
Village bar popular with club riders, bike racks right opposite: coffee, bocadillos or a Mallorcan lunch before the steep Galilea climb; closed Wednesdays.
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Café 161 kmDoble Coffee Esporles
Specialty coffee, pancakes or sourdough tostadas on Passeig del Rei, Esporles' main street right on the route; popular with riders, closes around 4:30–6 pm.
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Bike shop 186 kmCycling Planet Alaró
Café, bike shop and workshop of 2014 Madison world champion David Muntaner: homemade cakes, coffee and quick repairs; weekdays till 8 pm, weekends only till 2 pm.
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Mallorca 226: Puig Major, the whole west coast and a long way home
Route summary:
This is the official Mallorca 226 course of the Mallorca 312 gran fondo, taken from the organiser's 2025 GPX (then still called Mallorca 225). From Playa de Muro you ride 230 km with about 3,400 m of climbing: Coll de Femenia, Puig Major at 869 m and then the Tramuntana coast road from Sóller via Deià, Banyalbufar and Estellencs to Andratx, before Galilea, Esporles and Lloseta bring you home. It suits fit, experienced riders ready for 8–11 hours in the saddle. Outside the event the roads are open to traffic and there are no feed zones – refuel in Deià, at Es Grau and in Esporles. The event itself runs every spring with start and finish in Playa de Muro; registration for 2027 opens on 6 October 2026.
Cycling route summary:
The first 25 km are a flat warm-up: past the walls of Alcúdia, along the bay towards Port de Pollença and round Pollença onto the Ma-10. Coll de Femenia is the first real test – 9 km at 5 % to 537 m. The road rolls past the Lluc turn-off (km 38) to the Gorg Blau reservoir; at km 52 the last 5 km to Puig Major begin: 5.3 % up to 869 m at the Monnàber tunnel, the roof of the route.
Then comes a technical 15 km descent into the Sóller valley, with rumble strips near the bottom; cross the km 72 tram tracks square on. The Ma-10 then hugs the coast: Coll d'en Bleda (4.2 km, 4.9 %), Deià, Sa Pedrissa (422 m), Valldemossa and Coll d'en Claret (496 m). After Banyalbufar the road never lets up: Estellencs, Es Grau, Coll de sa Gramola (360 m), then down to Andratx.
Inland, after the gentle Coll de n'Esteva, come the steepest climbs: Galilea (4.7 km, 6.1 %) and Coll des Grau from Puigpunyent (4.2 km, 6.1 %, 18 hairpins, little traffic, patchy tarmac). The final 70 km from Esporles are easier: rolling roads to Alaró, a short rise before Lloseta and the flat plain past Selva, Campanet and Sa Pobla to the beach.
Tourist summary:
This course is a crash course in the Serra de Tramuntana, a UNESCO-listed cultural landscape. You pass the walls of Alcúdia, the Gorg Blau reservoir below Puig Major – Mallorca's highest peak, crowned by a military radar – and the orange groves of the Sóller valley. Deià was the home of the poet Robert Graves; right by the road stands Son Marroig, Archduke Ludwig Salvator's estate overlooking the pierced rock of Sa Foradada. Valldemossa hosted Chopin and George Sand in the winter of 1838–39. Banyalbufar and Estellencs cling to stone terraces above the sea, and La Granja near Esporles is a historic estate turned museum.
Climbs
- Length
- 9 km
- Avg. gradient
- 5 %
- Max.
- 9.4 %
- Top
- 537 m
- Length
- 5 km
- Avg. gradient
- 5.3 %
- Top
- 869 m
- Length
- 4.2 km
- Avg. gradient
- 4.9 %
- Max.
- 7.9 %
- Top
- 223 m
- Length
- 6.5 km
- Avg. gradient
- 4.4 %
- Top
- 422 m
- Length
- 2.8 km
- Avg. gradient
- 4.5 %
- Top
- 496 m
- Length
- 3.6 km
- Avg. gradient
- 4.4 %
- Max.
- 8.9 %
- Top
- 360 m
- Length
- 4.7 km
- Avg. gradient
- 6.1 %
- Max.
- 7.5 %
- Top
- 412 m
- Length
- 4.2 km
- Avg. gradient
- 6.1 %
- Max.
- 8.4 %
- Top
- 467 m
Tips from our guides
- Start at first light. At a steady 25 km/h you need more than 9 hours of pure riding, plus stops – and in December the sun sets around 17:25, so pack lights anyway.
- Spanish rules require lights and a reflective vest in every tunnel outside towns, even by day – that includes the lit Monnàber tunnel at the top of Puig Major. If you bail out in Sóller towards Palma, take Coll de Sóller: bikes are banned from the Sóller road tunnel.
- Services are sparse in the mountains: set off with full bottles, top them up at Lluc (a short detour at km 38) and carry food for the roughly 45 km over Puig Major to Deià.
- The coast road from Sóller to Andratx is narrow and twisty, with cars and buses, especially around midday – ride single file on bends and whenever traffic builds behind you. Cross the Sóller tram tracks (km 72) and the Palma–Sóller railway (km 172) at right angles; the organiser's GPX also warns of a sharp left-hander on the descent to Lloseta (km 192).
- Take a light endurance road bike with compact gearing (34×32 or lower) – 3,400 m of climbing adds up. The last 35 km cross the open plain, where an afternoon sea breeze can blow straight in your face.
Did you know?
- The Serra de Tramuntana, whose roads make up most of this course, has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a cultural landscape since 2011. source
- Lloseta, the last feed zone of the event, is home to Spain's first industrial renewable-hydrogen plant, opened in March 2022 – a project led by Enagás and ACCIONA Energía and powered by solar farms in Lloseta and Petra. source
- Deià, which you ride through at km 82, is the home village of Vicenç Reynés, born there in 1981, who raced as a professional from 2003 to 2016 and ended his career with IAM Cycling. source
Places along the route
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133 km
Coll de Femenia
The first big climb tops out at 537 m after 9 km from Pollença. Look back over the valley from the upper bends. Past the top the Ma-10 rolls on to the Lluc turn-off (km 38) – the monastery is less than a kilometre off the route if you need water or coffee.
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250 km
Gorg Blau & Puig Major
The Gorg Blau reservoir has supplied Palma with drinking water since the early 1970s. Just past it (km 52) the last 5 km to the Monnàber tunnel at 869 m, the route's highest point, begin. The summit of Puig Major above you, Mallorca's highest mountain, is an off-limits military zone topped by a radar dome.
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377 km
Coll d'en Bleda & Deià
After the 15 km descent you skirt Sóller and go straight up Coll d'en Bleda (4.2 km, 223 m). Five kilometres later the Ma-10 runs through the middle of Deià, the stone village where the poet Robert Graves lived. The bakery-shop on the main street is a handy refuel.
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486 km
Sa Foradada & Valldemossa
Right by the road stands Son Marroig, once the estate of Archduke Ludwig Salvator, looking down on Sa Foradada – a rocky peninsula with an 18-metre hole worn by erosion. On event day there is a water point here. Then Sa Pedrissa climbs to 422 m and you skirt Valldemossa, where Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838–39.
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596 km
Coll d'en Claret & Banyalbufar
At 496 m, Coll d'en Claret is the highest point of the coastal section after Valldemossa. At km 99, where the event splits the 226 from the longer 312, you turn right and drop to Banyalbufar (km 106), a village built on dry-stone terraces where the Malvasia grape is grown.
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6115 km
Estellencs & Es Grau
Estellencs (km 113) is a tiny village of stone houses at the foot of Puig de Galatzó. Right after it the road climbs via Coll des Pi to Es Grau (about 330 m), where the café beside the Mirador de Ricardo Roca is a regular cyclists' stop, with sheer cliffs below.
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7125 km
Coll de sa Gramola & Andratx
Coll de sa Gramola (360 m) is the last pass on the coast. From here you drop into the Andratx valley and reach the town at km 130 – the south-western turning point of the route, from which you head back inland.
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8139 km
Es Capdellà & Galilea
Es Capdellà is a quiet farming village and a feed zone on event day. Right after it the climb to Galilea begins: 4.7 km at 6.1 % to 412 m, a hamlet on a ridge with views to the sea.
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9159 km
Sa Granja & Esporles
La Granja d'Esporles is a historic manor run by Cistercian monks for some 200 years from 1239; today it is a museum of rural life set around natural springs. Two kilometres on, Passeig del Rei, the main street of Esporles, is lined with café terraces – a good place for a proper lunch before the last 70 km or so.
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10194 km
Lloseta
After a short rise beyond Alaró you roll down into Lloseta, the last feed zone of the event. The town hosts Spain's first industrial renewable-hydrogen plant. From here it is 35 km, mostly flat, past Selva, Campanet and Sa Pobla to the finish by the beach at Playa de Muro.
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