Serra de Tramuntana driving road map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

Out of the orange groves of the Sóller valley, the Ma-10 climbs into the Serra de Tramuntana in a long chain of bends, the bay dropping further below with every turn. Near the top you plunge into the unlit Monnàber tunnel, about 300 metres long, right beneath Puig Major, Mallorca's highest peak. Beyond it lies a quiet upland of bare limestone and the mountain reservoirs of Cúber and Gorg Blau. Past the monastery at Lluc, the road descends to Pollença. It is only part of the 112-kilometre Ma-10, but the highest and wildest part. For anyone who knows Mallorca from its mountain roads rather than its beaches.

This work is part of the Petrolhead Roads collection: the world's finest driving and riding roads, from coastal routes and mountain roads to legendary ribbons of curves. Each road is drawn from the real route and finished in the same calm, graphic style, with the elevation profile and, along the bottom, the length, the road number and the facts that made the road famous.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data. A great gift for anyone who would rather drive a great road than the motorway.