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Sant Carles de Peralta, Ibiza's northeast village on foot
Market days at Las Dalias, a square by the 1785 church now closed to cars, dark sand at Cala Boix and a flat coast path that ends at a 1763 watchtower.
Door Bram VermeerBack roads, calas and Dalt Vila
The square outside the church in Sant Carles de Peralta was pedestrianised in September 2026, so you walk the last stretch into it. Bar Anita has stood beside the church since the end of the 19th century, and the numbered wooden pigeonholes behind its counter once held the island's post and the only telephone for miles. Las Dalias opens its market at 10:00 on Saturdays, every week of the year.
The church and the village square
Església de Sant Carles de Peralta (the village square) went up in 1785, and the whole village is arranged around it. It is squat and whitewashed, with walls thick enough to read as a small fort, a deep porch of three round arches on square pillars, and wooden beams exposed above that porch. The bell gable sits off-centre at the left end.
Inside there is a single nave and the chapel of the Roser. Entry is free, with no ticket, and the one rule is to stay quiet during Mass. Much of what you see is a rebuild, since Civil War damage took most of the earlier fabric.
The walled garden has a small stone well and almond trees, and the porch keeps its shade through the morning. Either one is a good place to sit while the village is still quiet.
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Bar Anita
Bar Anita (Ca n'Anneta) (beside the church) opens at 07:30 and closes at 01:00. The wall of numbered wooden pigeonholes behind the counter dates from its years as the island's hippy post office, and demijohns of homemade herbal liqueur stand along it. The ceiling is dark and beamed, the tiled floor is scuffed, and the terrace outside sits under a vine.
Anna Mari Torres, who founded the bar, turned 100 in March 2026 and died that May. It carries on as before. Prices are €€.
You just walk in. The room inside is small, so in August you will wait on the terrace.
Las Dalias market days
Las Dalias is the reason most people drive out to Sant Carles. The market trades Saturdays 10:00 to 19:00 and Sundays 11:00 to 18:00, year-round, with evening markets added through the summer. Day entry is free, stalls price between €10 and €150, and the night markets may charge.
Around 200 cloth-canopied stalls of silver, leather and tie-dye stand under tall pines strung with bulbs and hand-painted mandala signs. There is a stage at the back, and the gig calendar stays full through the season. The original 1950s roadside bar building still stands.
The Café, the PaloSanto restaurant and the Akasha club share the site and run as one operation. All three take bookings.
Eating in and around the village
San Carlos Bar Restaurante (just outside the village on the winding road out) cooks Uruguayan cuts over a wood-fired parrilla, with fresh fish and homemade pasta alongside. The terrace sits under an ivy-smothered pergola hung with lanterns, open fields beyond its edge. The kitchen runs 13:00 to 15:30 and 19:30 to 22:30, prices are €€€, and it takes bookings. It is the dinner to put before a Las Dalias night market.
Cas Pagès (km 10 on the Santa Eulària to Sant Carles road) has been run by the Pagès sisters since 1972. The dining room is an old farmhouse one, heavy-beamed, with an open wood-fired oven and embers at its centre and paper over the tables. Lamb roasts in the oven, sobrassada goes on the grill, and Ibizan puddings and local wine finish it. Prices are €€. It takes no reservations, so arrive early and expect a wait at peak times.
El Bigotes (on the rocks at the far end of Cala Mastella) is an open-sided wooden shack with plastic chairs on a concrete ledge above the water and nets and buoys hanging from the rafters. One blackened pot of fish stew sits over a wood fire. That morning's catch becomes bullit de peix, then arròs a banda in the same broth, and there is no menu to choose from. You pay €35 to €45 per head, in cash. Reserve by phone, since you cannot walk in. A small group can book a full sitting, and large parties are turned away. It shuts for the winter.
The coves
Cala Mastella is 60 metres of pale sand wedged between low cliffs, with a line of weathered timber fishermen's boat huts on the rock to the right and pines leaning over the path down. The water is flat and clear, and this is the parish's standard answer for snorkelling. Access is free. Arrive before 11:00 in summer, because the car park fills by mid-morning. The sand holds a handful of people and no more.
Cala Boix is the only dark-sand beach on Ibiza: a narrow 100-metre strip of grey-black sand at the foot of a tall pine-covered cliff, the water turning from jade to deep blue. The road stops at the clifftop, and a long concrete staircase zig-zags down. The stairs are steep and the strip of sand is thin. Access is free, and sunbeds cost €6 to €8.
Restaurante Cala Boix (on the clifftop above the beach) has cooked traditional Ibizan food here for more than 40 years, paella pans on the heat under a bamboo-shaded veranda, the black sand and open sea dropping away below the railing. Paella and fresh fish are what people drive out for. Prices are €€€ and reservations are taken. These clifftop terraces are the area's best place to watch the light go.
Cala Llenya is a wide shallow horseshoe of fine white sand backed by a dense pine valley, with low rock arms on both sides and water that stays waist-deep a long way out. It is the calmest beach on this coast. Parking sits under the pines, and there are sunbeds, showers and seasonal lifeguards; sunbeds again run €6 to €8. Entry is free. Natural pine shade is rare on Ibiza and worth more than it sounds. Park early.
Aigües Blanques lies 4 kilometres northeast of the village, a 300-metre ribbon of coarse sand under crumbling ochre cliffs that throw shade over it by late afternoon. People smear the clay-streaked rock on as mud. Tagomago and Punta Grossa sit on the horizon, and two ramshackle timber chiringuitos stand at the south end, grilling meat, food €10 to €20. Access is free and open. The descent from the roadside car park takes a steep 10 minutes, which rules it out for anyone with mobility problems. It is clothing-optional and Ibiza's best-known nudist beach, so brief anyone you bring before you set off.
Pou des Lleó and the walk to Torre d'en Valls
Restaurante Salvadó stands on the slipway at Pou des Lleó, where the fishermen used to sell their catch off the pier. Stone-and-timber boathouses curve round the bay in front of it, terrace tables sit a few metres from the water, and red-earth cliffs rise behind. It still cooks the fish straight. Spring and autumn it opens for lunch only; June to September it serves lunch and dinner. Prices are €€€, bookings are taken, and Sunday lunch fills with Ibicencos.
Torre d'en Valls (Torre de Campanitx) is 1 to 2 km along the coast from Pou des Lleó, the path flat dirt and lined with sabina pines, running out to the bare red headland of Es Cap Roig. The tower is a squat truncated cone of stone with no door at ground level. It was finished in 1763 as a pirate lookout with two cannon and two guards, blown apart in 1864 and restored in 1982.
It is free and unstaffed, and you cannot count on getting inside. Tagomago lies flat-topped straight out to sea. On a clear day Mallorca shows on the horizon. This is the sunrise side of the parish and its best viewpoint.
Mines de s'Argentera
Mines de s'Argentera (beside the PM-810 road) is the strangest piece of history here. Argentiferous galena was dug from the 1860s until flooding closed the workings in 1909, and the silver paid for half the village. What survives sits in red earth and pine scrub, right at the roadside: a stone chimney stump, a ruined forge, mineral washing channels and bricked shaft mouths.
There is no gate, no guide and no lighting. The site is BIC-protected and privately owned, with no tours. Look at the surface remains and stay away from the shafts. There is nowhere to park a coach.
Where to stay
Can Curreu Hotel Rural & Spa (km 12, beside Las Dalias) is a cluster of cubic whitewashed Ibizan farm buildings with rounded corners and sabina-beam ceilings, built around a 200-year-old core, bougainvillea over the terraces and a pool set in dry-stone terracing among olive trees. Rooms start at €295 and there is a spa. The restaurant takes bookings and runs tasting packages at €98 to €175 per person, and locals book it for themselves. The hotel holds only a handful of rooms, so book far ahead.
Can Talaias is the quieter option, an eight-room white finca high on a hillside between the village and Sant Vicent, furnished with antique Ibizan pieces, with a long terrace looking toward Cala de Sant Vicent and an infinity-edge pool among terraced olive and carob trees. It is adults-oriented and €€€€, and with eight rooms a small group could take the whole house. It closes from 1 November to the end of March, so check the dates before planning a winter market trip. Book months ahead.
Planning your days
Las Dalias trades every weekend of the year, while Can Talaias shuts from 1 November to the end of March and El Bigotes closes for the winter. Reserve El Bigotes by phone, book Can Curreu well in advance, and arrive early at Cas Pagès, which takes no reservations.
See the Ibiza guide and the Ibiza hotel search.
Voor vertrek
When is the Las Dalias market open?
It opens Saturdays 10:00 to 19:00 and Sundays 11:00 to 18:00, all year, with extra evening markets in summer. Daytime entry is free, stalls sell from €10 to €150, and the night markets sometimes charge.
How do you book a table at El Bigotes?
By phone only. You cannot walk in, there is no menu, and they take cash, €35 to €45 a head. A small group can book a whole sitting; they do not take large parties, and the shack shuts for the winter.
Which beach near Sant Carles works best with children?
Cala Llenya. A wide shallow horseshoe where the water stays waist-deep a long way out, with parking under the pines, sunbeds, showers and lifeguards in season. The pine valley behind it is dense enough for proper shade, which is rare on Ibiza. Park early.
Can you go inside Torre d'en Valls?
Not reliably. The tower is free and unstaffed, and there is no door at ground level. Go for the walk instead, 1 to 2 km of flat dirt path from Pou des Lleó, and for the view out to Tagomago, with Mallorca visible on a clear day.
Is anything open in Sant Carles in winter?
Las Dalias trades every weekend of the year, and Bar Anita opens 07:30 to 01:00 beside the church. Can Talaias closes from 1 November to the end of March, and El Bigotes closes for the winter.
