LÔAC - Centre d'Art contemporani d'Alaior

Picasso and Miró hang in the middle of Alaior, a quiet inland town on Menorca. The collection runs mainly to post-war Spanish painting, generously spaced across two light floors, with a few sculptures and photographs among it and newer work beside the older names. It is a fuller collection than the setting suggests — one you would be glad to find in a city gallery — and half an hour covers both floors, which makes it an easy stop on the way to somewhere else.

• Two sessions: the gallery shuts in the middle of the day and opens again for the evening, so a lunchtime arrival can find the door closed.
• Half an hour: that is about what both floors take, so the visit pairs well with a walk around Alaior.
• Toilets: there is one inside the gallery; no public toilets in the streets nearby, and no drinking water either.
• Information point: Punt Jove, an information point, sits about 180 m away.

The gallery is in the middle of Alaior, an inland town on Menorca, and the approach amounts to a few streets on foot. Two public car parks sit about 60 and 80 m away, so a car can be left almost at the door. Coming by bus, the Alaior - Centre stop is just over 300 m off in a straight line, and the walk from there goes through the town centre.

Best: the evening session, or any time on a wet day.

Avoid: Monday, when the gallery is closed, and the middle of the day, when it shuts between sessions.

Two floors of indoor rooms make this a place to hold in reserve for rain, or for the hours in August when the heat has emptied the beaches; the evening session runs late enough to fit in before dinner.