Theme Week Ibiza – Sant Antoni de Portmany

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Sant Antoni Bay © JanManu/cc-by-sa-3.0

Sant Antoni Bay © JanManu/cc-by-sa-3.0

Sant Antoni de Portmany (Spanish: San Antonio Abad) or San Antonio is a town on the western coast of Ibiza. It is the second-largest town and municipality in Ibiza; an island described by Time Out magazine as “arguably the clubbing capital of the universe”. For two thousand years, Sant Antoni was a small fishing village that rose from the Roman natural harbor Portus Magnus, but it began to grow in the late 1950s when many hotels and tourist resorts were built as part of a mass tourism initiative which took place across Spain. As the number of tourists grew, the development of bars, hotels and other tourist infrastructure spread right around to the other side of San Antonio bay, as far as Cala de Bou which lies in the adjacent municipality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia. Along the harbour of San Antonio there are various boats and ferries that have multiple connections to beaches such as Cala Bassa, Cala Compte, Pinet Playa, Es Puet, Cala Grasió, Cala Salada and Port es Torrent. These have daily departures from may until end September or October. Also once a week there is a ferry to Formentera.

The Egg of Columbus is the best known landmark in Sant Antoni, located in the centre of the main roundabout at the entrance to the town. The Egg is a statue erected in the early 1990s to commemorate the local claim of having been the birthplace of Christopher Columbus (there is a similar claim that Hannibal was born in the region). The statue is in the shape of an egg, containing at its centre a model of his ship: the Santa Maria. The choice of an egg comes from a story about Columbus, who when seeking funding for his Western route to the Indies, was told it was impossible. He then allegedly asked if standing an egg upright was impossible, and when told that it was, he cracked the base of an egg, thus making it possible for it to stand upright. He was then granted funding.

Sant Antoni Bay © JanManu/cc-by-sa-3.0 Sant Antoni de Portmany © JanManu/cc-by-sa-3.0 Sant Antoni Bay and S'Arenal Beach © JanManu/cc-by-sa-3.0 Sant Antoni de Portmany - Sunset at Cafe del Mar © flickr.com - Eduardo Pitt/cc-by-sa-2.0 The famous 'Egg of Columbus' in Sant Antoni de Portmany © Cartinal Cala Salada, north of Sant Antoni de Portmany © Coniferous/cc-by-3.0
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Sant Antoni de Portmany - Sunset at Cafe del Mar © flickr.com - Eduardo Pitt/cc-by-sa-2.0
Part of Sant Antoni’s harbourside promenade, Passeig de ses Fonts, is an area which was developed in the early 1990s to improve the appearance of the town. There are many plants, including palm trees and rubber plants, as well as massive fountains, which are illuminated by night. Across the square are a host of restaurants and cafes offering a view over Sant Antoni Bay. It is also the best place from which to watch the massive fireworks display which celebrates the fiesta of Saint Bartholomew on 24 August.

The West End is an area of San Antonio. Only a couple of streets wide; the main street is the Carrer de Santa Agnès, it hosts a variety of bars ranging from the dance and house music Ibiza is famed for to rock and indie music. PR staff line the street trying to attract tourists into any of the many bars on the strip with special deals on alcohol. Originally the name “The West End” refers to a night time minibus trip from hotels in Es Cana in the 1970s that would come to San Antonio’s bars (as Es Cana had no bar scene) and the name of this tour package was “The West End Experience”. Since then the area has become known simply as “The West End”. Along the coast in the west is the Sunset Strip where various bars including Café del Mar and Café Mambo are situated, where the likes of Swedish House Mafia, Carl Cox, David Guetta and Pete Tong DJ on a regular basis. The west-facing strip of coastline means that visitors can enjoy beautiful sunsets.

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