In Andy's footsteps
Discover the calm Andy loved
If Ibiza was where Andy danced, Formentera was where he breathed. A thirty-minute ferry across the shining channel, and the whole world slows down. No airport, no crowds, no rush — just powder-white sand, water so clear and turquoise you would swear you had washed up in the Caribbean, and the deep, healing calm that the very first travellers crossed the sea to find.
He loved the little island for everything Ibiza was not: the empty dune paths, the fig trees and dry-stone walls, the lighthouse at the edge of the world, the way an afternoon could simply dissolve with your toes in the shallows. This map is that gentler side of his heart, laid out bay by bay — so you can go and feel, for yourself, the quiet paradise he never stopped loving.
And when you want a little more — a boat trip, a hidden cala, a tip only the locals know — Ibiza Spotlight has been the islands' own companion for years, full of inspiration for discovering the Pityusas the way Andy did.
One map, the whole island
Every bay worth finding, in your pocket
This is the map Andy would have wanted: not a wall of machine-dropped pins, but the real places of Formentera — and its big sister Ibiza too — checked by hand against the islands' own registers. Open the map, tap anywhere, and the clear turquoise sea answers back.
The whole map of Ibiza & Formentera — tap the image to open it live, at Opa's place, in fullscreen.
Open the live map1,700+ real places, checked by hand
Every pin on the interactive map this page opens earned its place. More than 1,700 locations across Ibiza and Formentera, held on the interactive map hosted on spaceibiza.de and cross-checked against the island's official beach register, the tourism board's hotel and agroturismo lists, and the health service's emergency directory. This is not a scrape of the internet — it is a map made the slow, careful way.
28 categories, one gentle filter
Beaches and hidden coves, lighthouses, viewpoints and nature reserves, salt lakes, the little market, peaks, hippy markets, marinas, restaurants, cafes and beach bars, hotels and rural apartments — right down to pharmacies, fuel, ATMs and taxis. Turn on only what you feel like today, and the rest quietly steps aside.
Three ways to see the island
Switch between crisp satellite imagery that shows every cove and headland, clean streets for finding your way through town, and a glowing view of the sea depths — the underwater shape of the island laid bare, from shallow turquoise flats to the deep blue drop-offs.
Tap anywhere for live sea & sky
Touch any point on the water or the land and the map answers in real time: air and sea temperature, UV index, wind and gusts, wave height and swell, humidity and air quality — plus sunrise, sunset and the golden hour. Everything you need to plan a swim, a sail or a sunset walk.
Know the depth beneath you
Tap the sea and the map tells you exactly how deep the water is at that spot, drawn from European marine survey data. Tap the land and it gives you the elevation. For snorkelers, divers and anyone who has ever wondered what lies below that impossible blue, it is quietly addictive.
Find your way in a heartbeat
Search any place with instant suggestions as you type — a beach, a cove, a village, a chiringuito — and open it in a tap. One touch gives you directions on your phone's own maps. Or let the island surprise you: Near me shows what is close right now, and Surprise me picks somewhere you might never have found.
Free, no app, on any device
Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, no cookies chasing you around. The map opens straight in any browser — phone, tablet or laptop — and works just as happily on a beach towel as on a desk. Made with love, and free for everyone who loves these islands.
Twenty-eight ways to explore
What you can find on the map
Every place falls into one of 28 categories, grouped so you can find your kind of day in seconds — whether that is a hidden cala, a long beach walk, a chiringuito lunch or the nearest pharmacy. (The full set covers all of Ibiza & Formentera; on the little island you will lean most on the first two.)
Discover
This is the heart of the little island — everything that makes people fall in love with Formentera and never quite leave. Wander the powder-white beaches and turquoise coves, from the world-famous sands of Ses Illetes and the long open sweep of Playa Migjorn to secret little calas you reach only on foot. Climb to clifftop viewpoints at La Mola and the wild Cap de Barbaria, where the lighthouse stands alone at the edge of the world. Wander the whitewashed streets of sleepy Sant Francesc, lose an afternoon at the little hippy market of El Pilar, seek out the salt lakes of Estany Pudent, the quiet churches and lonely lighthouses, or watch the boats drift in and out of the harbour at La Savina. Every beach, cove, viewpoint and nature reserve on Formentera is here, waiting to be found.
Eat & Drink
Formentera feeds you as gently as it calms you. Settle in for a long, slow lunch at a rustic restaurant by the shore, where the fish came off the boat that morning and the wine is poured without measure. Sip a cortado and watch the world go by from a cafe on the square in Sant Francesc, or find the perfect chiringuito at Migjorn just as the sun begins to sink into the sea. Grab a quick, honest bite between swims, or track down the farm-to-table places, the sunset dinner spots, the tiny family tavernas the guidebooks miss — a paella with your toes in the sand, fresh fish at a beach shack, the famous bitter local figs. The map holds every restaurant, cafe, bar and bite worth knowing on the little island — so wherever hunger finds you, something wonderful is always close.
Stay
Where you sleep shapes the whole island you wake up to. Choose a simple beachside hostal steps from Ses Illetes, a rustic apartment among the fig trees, or a boutique hideaway tucked into the quiet countryside. Travelling light and easy? The island's friendly hostels put you among fellow wanderers for the price of a cocktail back home. Craving peace? Hide away in a rural apartment or a whitewashed agroturismo among the pines and almond trees, where the only sound at night is the cicadas and the only alarm clock is the sun. From the loudest strip to the quietest valley, the map lays out every hotel, hostel and apartment on Ibiza and Formentera, so you can find not just a bed, but the version of the island that is right for you.
Practical & Safe
The unglamorous things that quietly make a holiday work — and the ones that truly matter when something goes wrong. Catch the ferry across the shining channel to Formentera, or find the fast boat back to the mainland. Track down the nearest pharmacy for sunburn or a forgotten prescription, and know exactly where every hospital, 24-hour A&E and local health centre is — the kind of thing you hope never to need, but are deeply grateful to have at your fingertips. Fill up at a fuel station before the drive to a far cove, draw cash from an ATM, ask a tourist info point for that hidden beach, stock the villa fridge at a supermarket, or hail a taxi home when the last bus has long gone. Andy always looked after the people around him — and this part of the map carries that same care, checked against the island's official health service, so that wherever you are on Ibiza or Formentera, help is only ever a tap away.
Tap anywhere, ask anything
Everything the island can tell you
Touch any point on the sea or the land and the map comes alive with real-time answers, drawn from open marine, weather and satellite data. This is not a static picture — it is the island, breathing, right now.
The sky above you
Plan your day by the real weather, not last week's forecast. Tap a spot for the air temperature and how it truly feels in the sun and wind, the UV index so you know when to seek the shade, the humidity, the cloud cover, the chance of rain, the air pressure, and the wind and gusts down to the direction they blow. A full multi-day forecast lets you choose the perfect beach morning or the right evening for a clifftop dinner.
The sea around you
For swimmers, snorkelers, sailors and divers, the map reads the water itself. Find the sea-surface temperature before you dive in, the wave height and swell for a safe swim or a smooth ferry crossing to Ibiza, the wave period and direction, and the ocean current beneath the surface — all from the German Weather Service's marine wave model. And tap the open water anywhere and the map tells you exactly how deep the sea is at that spot, drawn from European marine survey data, so you always know what lies below that impossible blue.
The light of the day
Formentera is an island ruled by the sun, and the map knows its rhythm by heart. See the exact sunrise and sunset for any spot, the length of the day, and — most magical of all — the golden hour and blue hour, when the whole island turns to honey and then to velvet. Andy chased a thousand of these sunrises and sunsets; now you can time yours to the minute, and never miss the moment the sky catches fire out beyond the lighthouse of La Mola.
The land & the air
Tap the land and the map gives you the elevation at that point, drawn from the European Space Agency's Copernicus survey — useful for a hike up to a viewpoint or a peak. It also reads the air quality in real time: the European air-quality index, with fine-particle PM2.5 and PM10 and ozone levels, so those who need clean air can breathe easy. And for hundreds of places, a tap opens a little Wikipedia story and photo, and the deep history behind the name.
The little island is alive
Dunes, salt lakes and the oldest living thing on Earth
Formentera is small, low and wild — shaped by wind, salt and an astonishing sea. Its greatest wonders are the ones you barely notice at first: the sea grass that keeps the water clear, the dunes that hold the beaches together, the flamingos wading in the salt lakes.
The wild island: its flora
Low, hardy and fragrant, Formentera's plants survive on wind and sun alone — and hold the whole fragile paradise together.
Posidonia sea grass
The greatest wonder of all lies just offshore. The impossible turquoise of Formentera's water is the work of vast underwater meadows of Posidonia oceanica — Neptune grass — a UNESCO World Heritage treasure. One single clonal plant stretching between here and Ibiza is thought to be up to 100,000 years old, quite possibly the oldest living organism on Earth. It filters the sea to glass and quietly makes the whole paradise possible.
Sabina & dune plants
Twisted low junipers — the sabina — lean away from the wind along the dunes, alongside sea daffodils, marram grass and the pink sprays of sea lavender. These humble plants anchor the sand and stop the famous beaches from blowing away. Walk the dune boardwalks and you walk through a living, working landscape.
Fig trees & dry-stone walls
Inland, ancient fig trees spread low and wide, their branches propped on wooden crutches to shade the goats. Between them run mile after mile of hand-built dry-stone walls, and the salt-tolerant scrub that gives the island its silver-green, sun-baked colour. This is the quiet, timeless Formentera of the farmers.
Salt of Ses Salines
At the northern tip, the salt pans of Estany Pudent and Ses Salines still shimmer as they have for over two thousand years. The Phoenicians came here for this „white gold“, and today the flats are a protected wonderland of pink-tinged water, wading birds and crystalline salt.
Rockrose & wild rosemary
On the low garrigue that covers much of the island grow Cistus rockrose, wild rosemary and thyme — tough, aromatic shrubs that burst into papery flower in spring and fill the warm air with scent. Brush past them on a coastal path and Formentera reveals itself through your nose as much as your eyes.
Samphire & sea daffodil
Right at the edge where sand meets salt, fleshy green samphire and the elegant white sea daffodil bloom straight out of the dunes in late summer — delicate survivors in one of the harshest, most beautiful places a plant can grow.
The living island: its fauna
For a place so small and dry, Formentera teems with life — in the salt lakes, along the cliffs, and in the dazzling shallows.
Flamingos of the salt lakes
Over the salt pans of Estany Pudent and Ses Salines, flocks of pink flamingos gather to feed in the shallow silver water, especially in spring and autumn. Against the white salt and the low sun, it is one of the loveliest and most surprising sights the little island offers.
The Formentera wall lizard
Meet the island's own creature. The Pityusic wall lizard (Podarcis pityusensis) lives here and on Ibiza and nowhere else in the world. On Formentera and its islets the colours turn especially vivid — deep blues and greens — and they bask fearlessly on every warm wall and rock. Once you start noticing them, you will see them everywhere.
Seabirds & the cliffs
The rare Eleonora's falcon and the Balearic shearwater ride the wind along the cliffs of La Mola and Cap de Barbaria, while shags and gulls nest on the sea stacks. Formentera sits on a great migration route, so quiet mornings reward anyone who looks up.
The Ibizan hound
Elegant, ancient and unmistakable, the Podenco has run these islands for thousands of years — a slender, amber-eyed hunting dog so old its likeness appears on Egyptian tombs. On quiet Formentera you still see them trotting the dusty lanes, a living piece of deep island history.
Octopus, seahorses & rays
Over the sea-grass meadows live the real treasures of the shallows: the shape-shifting octopus, the impossibly delicate seahorse clinging to a frond, and stingrays gliding over the pale sand like shadows. Formentera's water is so clear you often see them without even a mask.
Life in the shallows
The glass-clear water teems with it: shoals of silver fish over the white sand, the occasional loggerhead turtle gliding over the sea grass, starfish and bream in the shallows off Ses Illetes. Bring a mask, float over any cala, and the island opens a second, dazzling world just below the surface.
From sandbar to lighthouse
The beaches that ruin you for everywhere else
They say Formentera has the finest beaches in all the Balearics — and once you have seen them, it is very hard to argue. At Ses Illetes, a slender tongue of white sand reaches out into water of impossible blue, ranked again and again among the most beautiful beaches in Europe. Along the south runs Playa Migjorn, six kilometres of open dune and sky, and hidden coves like Cala Saona glow gold at sunset.
The map holds them all — the famous sandbars and the tiny secret calas, the lighthouse of La Mola at the edge of the world, the wild cliffs of Cap de Barbaria, the salt lakes and the sleepy village of Sant Francesc. With more than a hundred kilometres of flat paths, the little island is made for exploring slowly, by bike or on foot.
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Nine kilometres north
And then there's Ibiza
Just across the channel lies Formentera's big sister — the pulsing white island, the beating heart of the world's nightlife, where the greatest DJs define a season and a single sunrise can change everything. Where Formentera whispers, Ibiza roars. She has a living map all of her own.
Explore Opa's IbizaA first look
See the island through the map
Go and find it for yourself
The whole of Formentera — her powder-white beaches, hidden coves, salt lakes and the depth of the sea — on one living map. Free, no app, on any device.
Open the island mapThe Island Where He Breathes
A map is a practical kind of love. It asks nothing of you but your attention, and in return it shows you where — where the powder-white beaches lie, where the coves hide, where the salt lakes catch the last of the light. This one is made for Formentera the way you actually meet her: bay by bay, patiently, so you can find your bearings and let the day open up in front of you.
But a map, however faithful, holds the where. The why lives somewhere else — in the stories and the depth behind each name.
Why this small island at all
Of all the places across these two islands, Formentera is the one that asks you to slow down. The guide that stands behind this map — the long, unhurried piece of writing that is the elder sibling of this map — gives her the space a set of markers never can. It frames her, in spirit, like this: if Ibiza is the island where Andy dances, then Formentera is the island where he breathes.
That image holds the whole character of the little sister. Half a ferry-hour from the noise, and yet a world of her own — flat, wild, still, with water so clear that travellers from all over the world believe they have washed up in the Caribbean by mistake. No airport, no superclubs, and a pace that rarely asks you to rush. Only sand and rosemary and pine, and the feeling that time runs a little slower here. The map can take you to the edge of all that. The guide tells you something of what you are standing in.
The sea you are looking at
Spend a morning on Formentera and the colour of the water is the first thing to undo you. Many travellers photograph the turquoise; fewer know what gives it to them. Beneath both islands lie slow, swaying meadows of sea-grass, ancient and alive, quietly filtering the water and holding it clear. Read that once and the sea stops being a postcard. It becomes a living thing you are floating above — and the blue you tap on the map carries a meaning it did not have before.
The land tells a companion story. The Greeks named these the islands of pines, and the green that both sisters share — the sabina and the wild olive, the fig, the rosemary warming in the afternoon heat — is the scent you carry home long after the tan has faded. The map shows you where the nature lies; the guide tells you what it means.
When the island is most herself
There is one more thing the guide gives that a map leaves open: a sense of time. There is no single best season, only the best one for you. The same cove that hums with life in August can feel almost unrecognisably quiet in February — the waves hushed, the light turned low and gold. If you are the kind of traveller who would rather meet the island in her stillness, that knowledge changes everything about when you come.
Why it reads this way
You may wonder why a map speaks to you so tenderly. Here, finding your way is also an invitation to pause: to notice the light on the water, make room for quiet, and let Andy's light accompany the journey. Formentera, more than anywhere, is where that spirit settles — not a destination to be consumed, but a place to breathe. His light went on ahead into a brighter place, and it still falls across every bay on this map, and across the longer reading that waits behind it. That is why the little sister is written the way she is: gently, and with love.
So use the map for what it does best — find your place, trace the coast, and go. And when, some quiet evening, you want to know what lies behind the names, step into the whole island guide. It is in no hurry. It waits, in Andy's light, like Formentera herself, for you to arrive.