Explore Menorca's sandy beaches, fantastic art galleries, prehistoric sites and ancient citadels

Menorca is a cultural filler: the beauty of the Balearic Islands has more sandy beaches than all of its neighbors combined... but we are equally enamored with its fantastic art galleries, prehistoric sites and ancient citadels. Jane Knight, who stays in a villa in the center of the island, describes Menorca as "a huge open-air museum". She visits Hauser & Wirth's gallery on Isla del Rey, where she scouts for works by Joan Miro and Louise Bourgeois. His favorite beach in Menorca is Cala Binimel-la, where the sea laps either side of a "wide stretch of sand"
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Posted: 11:08 BST, Jun 22, 2022 | Updated: Jun 22, 2022 11:17 AM
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An art gallery on its own island has a certain allure, especially when you reach it at board a ferry blowing through the largest natural harbor in the Mediterranean. Here, on a small rocky outcrop amid waters fought over by British, French and Spanish forces over the centuries, is Hauser & Wirth's last outpost on the small Balearic island of Menorca.

On Isla del Rey, nicknamed the Bloody Island by British sailors, it is located in the converted outbuildings of a former naval hospital founded in 1711. And it is quite special, with a candy pink sculpture by Franz West by the dock setting the tone for what's to come.
This year - the gallery's second since its opening - presents the first solo exhibition in Spain of contemporary American artist Rashid Johnson.

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Explore Menorca's sandy beaches, fantastic art galleries, prehistoric sites and ancient citadels

Menorca is a cultural filler: the beauty of the Balearic Islands has more sandy beaches than all of its neighbors combined... but we are equally enamored with its fantastic art galleries, prehistoric sites and ancient citadels. Jane Knight, who stays in a villa in the center of the island, describes Menorca as "a huge open-air museum". She visits Hauser & Wirth's gallery on Isla del Rey, where she scouts for works by Joan Miro and Louise Bourgeois. His favorite beach in Menorca is Cala Binimel-la, where the sea laps either side of a "wide stretch of sand"

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Posted: 11:08 BST, Jun 22, 2022 | Updated: Jun 22, 2022 11:17 AM

An art gallery on its own island has a certain allure, especially when you reach it at board a ferry blowing through the largest natural harbor in the Mediterranean. Here, on a small rocky outcrop amid waters fought over by British, French and Spanish forces over the centuries, is Hauser & Wirth's last outpost on the small Balearic island of Menorca.

On Isla del Rey, nicknamed the Bloody Island by British sailors, it is located in the converted outbuildings of a former naval hospital founded in 1711. And it is quite special, with a candy pink sculpture by Franz West by the dock setting the tone for what's to come.

This year - the gallery's second since its opening - presents the first solo exhibition in Spain of contemporary American artist Rashid Johnson.