Cap de Favàritx

The rock underfoot is black slate, split into plates and tilted on edge, running bare to the cliff top — walking the cape looks more lunar than Mediterranean. In the middle of it stands the lighthouse, a 28-metre tower in a black-and-white spiral, built in 1922 out of stone cut from these same cliffs. When the tramuntana blows from the north the sea breaks hard against the dark rock.

Cyclists come up the road, photographers come for the tower against the slate, and the cape still tends to be quiet. From the cape the Camí de Cavalls carries on to Cala Presili and Cala Tortuga — fine golden sand and shallow clear water, 15 to 30 minutes away on foot.

• No shade, no water, no shops on the cape — carry more water than you think you need, and sun cover with it.
• The lighthouse is fenced off. The tower can be photographed from outside, the interior is closed, and scrambling round the fence puts you on sharp slate.
• It is about 2 km on foot from the car park, 20 to 30 minutes on asphalt.
• Peak summer restricts traffic onto the cape: park in the designated area further back and take the shuttle bus, or walk the marked trail.
• Children manage the walk — the road is surfaced and takes a pushchair.

The road in ends at a car park, and the last stretch to the lighthouse is about 2 km on foot, 20 to 30 minutes, along an asphalt road by the sea. It takes a pushchair. There is no shade on any of it, and nothing to drink at either end.

In the peak summer months traffic onto the cape is restricted: the designated car park sits further back, with a shuttle bus to the lighthouse, and the marked trail is the other way in. A stop sits about 610 m from the cape in a straight line. From the cape the Camí de Cavalls continues to Cala Presili and Cala Tortuga, 15 to 30 minutes on foot.

Best: May, and the hour before dark.

Avoid: the middle of a summer day.

There is no shade on the 2 km walk in and no water at the end of it, so midday in high summer turns the approach into work; in May the same walk is easy. The cape is open at any hour, and people stay on after sunset, when the stars come out over black rock.

The cape lies inside S'Albufera des Grau Natural Park and is managed as protected ground: keep to the road and the marked trail, both to spare the vegetation and because the slate off them is broken and sharp. The lighthouse compound is fenced and the tower closed to the public — the fence is the limit, whatever gaps the rocks appear to offer. Traffic onto the cape is restricted in the peak summer months. Nothing is sold out here, so everything you need comes in with you and the rubbish goes back out.