Necròpolis de Son Morell Nou

You can step through the doorways and stand inside. The chambers were carved as homes for the dead, and the first thing you notice is the sound — speak, and the rock hands it back. A group of musicians found the resonance inside worth the visit on its own. The air stays cool as a cellar, which turns a July morning here into an hour of moving out of the glare and back into it.

Outside, the cliff falls away to Cala Morell and the view runs down the length of the cove. Boards at the entrance explain who cut the caves and how the chambers were used, and some of the individual caves carry their own board, so the site can be followed from one to the next without a guide. Across the other side of Cala Morell lie the remains of a Bronze Age fortified settlement at Es Coll.

• No facilities. No toilets and no drinking water at the site or nearby — bring a bottle, and more of it in summer.
• Footwear. The ground is craggy and uneven; wear shoes with grip.
• No shade. The chambers are the only cool spot on the site, and there is nothing to sit under outside them.
• Boards. Information boards stand at the entrance and beside some caves, so the site explains itself as you walk round.
• Parking. The car park across the road is small; there is roadside parking as well.

Everything happens at the roadside. Parking sits about 40 m from the site, with a second patch of ground just beyond it, and from there you cross the road and you are on the ground. There is no ticket desk and nothing to pass through.

On the site itself you walk from cave to cave over bare rock, craggy in places, with the openings set into the face of the cliff. It is a wander rather than a route, and how long it takes depends on how many chambers you go inside. The Cala Morell bus stop is about 213 m away in a straight line.

Best: early morning or the last hours of daylight, when the clifftop is out of the worst of the heat and low sun reaches into the cave mouths.

Avoid: the middle of a summer day. There is no shade outside the chambers and the rock holds the heat.

The site is never gated, so the sun decides the timing here. In spring the north coast takes the wind head-on, and the clifftop is fully exposed to it — worth a layer even on a bright day.