Soller property & accommodation

Soller

Soller, is a town and municipality near the northwest coast of Majorca about half an hour's drive, from Palma Airport, which hosts a week-long international folklore festival every July. Soller is linked by rail, and by a highway with a toll tunnel, to the Majorcan capital of Palma which makes getting there much easier. There are also good connections with tram and bus services.

By far the best way to arrive at Soller is by train. The 17 mile journey from Palma, in a vintage wooden carriage that rattles down the mountainside, is a throwback to an earlier age of travel. Trains run five times a day from Placa d'Espanya in Palma.

The present-day economy is based mainly on tourism, and mainly agriculture based on massive orchards of citrus and olive trees.

Once in Soller, most people stroll around the shops, visit the market and sit in the main square admiring the Modernist architecture. There are also good walks into the countryside through a valley of orange trees and an enjoyable tram ride to the port.

The actual resort of Puerto de Soller is an almost perfect horseshoe bay enclosed by two headlands, which is not too dissimilar from many of the resorts on the north coast of Menorca.

Soller is a low-key resort, busy with day-trippers but reverting to calm at night. It is an excellent base to explore the northwest of the island.