Port de Valldemossa

Mallorca route guide · Serra de Tramuntana

Riding Port de Valldemossa

A dead end worth riding for. The Ma-1131 leaves the MA-10 west of Valldemossa and falls 358 m in five and a half kilometres down an open cliff face to a shingle cove and a handful of boat houses — a ladder of hairpins tighter than anything else in this world, with nothing but rock, sea and the drop beside you. There is no way on from the bottom, which is the point: you turn round and climb every metre of it back.

The mapped road is 5.5 km each way. Muntro carries it to the turnaround and back, so the complete ride is 11 km with 362 m of climbing.

This is coastal Mallorca rather than a generic blue horizon: the road’s relationship with coves, cliffs, ports, stone retaining walls, and open water is what defines it.

Captured in muntro

Relief, gradient, and how to pace it

This is serious vertical terrain. The road spans 361 m from bottom to top and accumulates 362 m of ascent, with sampled ramps reaching 10.3%. The profile makes the pacing decision visible before the first pedal stroke.

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

   the Ma-10 above Port de Valldemossa

   The route rolls away from the Ma-10 above Port de Valldemossa, giving you a few minutes to find cadence and read the road ahead.

2. 02

   the MA-10

   the MA-10 is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

3. 03

   the cliff ladder

   the cliff ladder is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

4. 04

   the sea

   the sea is one of the route’s defining changes of scene and a useful marker for pacing the ride.

5. 05

   373 m high point

   At 373 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 Port de Valldemossa 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 turnaround matters: you learn the road in one direction, then read every slope and landmark differently on the way back.