Long tour round Valldemossa on the old bridle-path of Archduke Ludwig Salvador

From the Placa Camp de Vañol at Valldemossa we walk 250m on the roads towards Palma. In front of the manor house with the tower Son Gual the path runs through Carrer Almendros left uphill. At the end of the street we turn left again and the next road we turn right up to Ca ´n Massana. There we follow the chain locked path straiht ahead uphill. In front of the spring Font d´es Abureuda a carriage road turns off to the right, winding its way up to Pla d´es Pouet. After the clearing we keep to the red points marked path until we reach the fountain Font d´es Pouet. We walk straight ahead through the forest passing a charcoal burner´s place with an oven and come to the Mirador de Ses Piles.

Then the path marked a little insufficiently runs through an oak forest uphill, but the path is soon better marked by red points and yellow indicators. Soon the bridle-path of the archduke, made up by retaining walls, is better discernible. Shortly after we reach the peak of the Pouet (855m) marked by a square and a measuring point. Afterwards we follow the red points marked path to Coll Estret de Son Gallard (762m) downhill. On the pass there is a cross and we follow the bridle-path.

On the bridle-path we do not keep to the green indicator but walk left steeply uphill. Got to the steep face, the path runs close to the ridge towards the Caragoli´s peak which just protudes the plateau. Passing the descent to Deià and the Caragoli´s peak, we come to a valley with a pine forest. Before the forest we come to a junction, where we turn left. After another wooded hollow we reach another junction with a stone pyramid and we turn left. Shortly after we have to climb on all fours. Now we can already see the trigonometric column on the Teix (1064m). After having crossed Pla de Sa Serp (Snakes plain) we can chose between trail to the top of the Teix.

As they meet each other soon the ascent is no problem. Afterwards we have to take the same way back to the stone pyramid. From there we walk on the bridle-path left across a plateau and then to the Refugi d´es Cairats valley downhill. From the mountain cabin on we follow the broad, steep carriage road through the Cairats valley downhill. Passing Charcoal burner´s places , a lime kiln and a wooden door, we turn right at a junction and walk on this path up until Son Gual on the outskirts of Valldemossa.