Alémais’ Menorca resort show was a lesson in summer dressing
Wallpaper | 29.05.2026 22:47
The tiny island of Illa del Rei, located in the port of Mahon, Menorca’s capital, has gone through various incarnations across the centuries. It was the landing place of King Alfonso III in 1287 during the reconquest of the Balearic Isles (hence the name, which translates to ‘King’s Island’); the home of a military hospital for troops during the British occupation in the 18th century; and, over a millenia before – as was discovered by chance in 1888 – the site of a 6th-century Palaeo-Christian basilica. The shards of the mosaics found – depicting deer, birds and twisting vines – are now safely ensconced in the Museu de Menorca.
