Description Balearics, Spain

Balearic Islands - a major center of tourism, one of the principal in the western Mediterranean. Arhipelag remarkable combines elegant holiday villages, bays and beaches with picturesque corners of the coast. Balearic Islands are Spanish territory.

Balearic archipelago located in the western Mediterranean, at approximately equal distance from the Iberian peninsula, southern France and northern Africa. Today it is a major center of tourism, the main throughout the Western Mediterranean. A rest on the Balearic Islands "VIP-tourists": top models, movie stars and television, politicians, athletes and journalists from the world-wide reputation. Well, just rich people. The islands have Villa Claudia Schiffer, giving racer Schumacher, "hacienda" tennis player Boris Baker and summer house, Michael Douglas, which has historical value. On the island of the highest standard of living for the whole of Spain, expressed primarily in housing prices and products for the local. With regard to the goods and services for tourists, then they stand there as much as in Barcelona.

The main islands-resorts - Mallorca (or Majorca), Menorca, Ibiza. The total area of islands is slightly higher than 5000 square kilometers and its coastline is 1,239 km.

Balearic Islands or the Balearic Islands (official name), is one of the seventeen autonomous regions of Spain with its own government. On the Balearic Islands are the government, the Balearic Parliament and the three island councils - in Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza from Formentera.