The Coll de la Creu from sa Teulera

Mallorca route guide · Serra de Tramuntana

Riding The Coll de la Creu from sa Teulera

The city’s own col. From the sa Teulera roundabout on Palma’s western edge the Ma-1043 leaves the last houses inside a kilometre and climbs three hundred metres on twenty-four genuine hairpins through Aleppo pine and strawberry-tree scrub, past a lower Coll de sa Creu at 322 m to the summit of the same name at 384 m — where the whole view is Palma, its bay and its sprawl, just left behind. Then two and a half kilometres down the far side, facing the Galatzó and s’Esclop skyline, to the T on the Ma-1016 below Valldurgent, and home the same way.

This point-to-point line covers 16.4 km, from A hairpin climb out of the capital, with the capital in the mirror.

The mountain character comes from more than gradient. Limestone, tunnel mouths, dry-stone edges, pine shade, reservoirs, and compressed hairpins change the view as much as the elevation.

Captured in muntro

Relief, gradient, and how to pace it

The elevation trace is rolling rather than alpine, spanning 299 m from low point to high point. There is 437 m of total ascent, enough to reward measured pressure over the rises without turning the whole route into a survival exercise.

Ride the early gradients a shade below the effort you think you can hold. The broken rhythm rewards cadence changes and short, controlled pressure rather than repeated spikes above threshold.

Points to watch for

The best Mallorca routes are remembered as a sequence of places, not as a GPX line. These are the changes of scene that organise this ride.

1. 01

   Sa Teulera

   The route rolls away from Sa Teulera, giving you a few minutes to find cadence and read the road ahead.

2. 02

   A hairpin climb out of the capital, with the capital in the mirror

   A hairpin climb out of the capital, with the capital in the mirror is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

3. 03

   376 m high point

   At 376 m high point, the elevation trace reaches its ceiling before the road releases the height it has earned.

Why this road works indoors

muntro does not flatten the Coll de la Creu from sa Teulera into a workout backdrop. The route’s bends, height, and junction order come from the road itself, while a compatible trainer reproduces the changing gradient under your pedals.

The point-to-point format gives the session a destination. There is no need to invent a finish when the real road already has one.