Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Menorca’s multi-layered and dramatic past – from the Talayotic culture of 3,000BC to Franco’s civil-war ...

The second largest of the Balearic islands, and a Unesco Biosphere Reserve, Menorca certainly packs a punch. With a tumultuous history that witnessed countless assaults from the Romans, Vandals, ...

Minorca, the first place in Spain to see the sun rise, is aglow at the end of the day. As I pulled my suitcase down the cobbled, car-free lanes of Ciutadella, the island’s ancient capital, an ocher ...

The shopkeepers are tending to rows of colourful leather sandals and the streets hum with cheerful chatter and clinking glasses. If it wasn’t for the masks concealing bronzed faces, life would feel ...

Pregonda is a long beach with reddish gold sand and pink rocks – creating the effect of a lunar landscape – and flanked by dunes and green fields. On the quieter north coast of Menorca, there are tiny ...