Art is the organising principle here rather than something hung on the walls. It's up in the rugged north of the island and feels more like a house than a hotel. Go if Mallorca's wilder, more romantic side is the reason you came.

A small hotel in a restored townhouse in the middle of Santanyí, with a courtyard and pool. The market takes over the square on Wednesdays and Saturdays and you can walk to it in a few minutes. The right base if the coves of the southeast are the point of the trip.

A nineteenth-century military fortress on the cliffs at the mouth of Palma bay, now converted into a hotel. Rooms are set into the old gun emplacements and you swim off the bastion into the sea. Twenty minutes from Palma and about as far from the rest of the island as it's possible to feel.

Dinner under the stars in the cove next to Blue Bar, with your feet in the sand.

The other restaurant in the cala, and the one that appeared in The Night Manager. The tables sit out on the rocks at the edge of the water, the fish is whatever came in that morning. Summer only, two sittings, so book. Walk down from the village in half an hour or arrive by boat, which is the better entrance.

A favourite in Deià for its Japanese and Asian-inspired cooking, with a beautiful terrace overlooking the Tramuntana mountains. Come for dinner and stay for the view.

A little spot in Deià with a relaxed Mediterranean feel. Come for good food, something cold to drink and a long lunch that turns into an afternoon.

A seasonal restaurant in Sóller centred around local produce, with a menu that changes with what is growing and available. Simple, thoughtful cooking in a beautiful setting.

Small-batch ice cream made on the island, with flavours that make choosing just one unnecessarily difficult. Best eaten in the sunshine.

Manacor is known for its pearl factory and wooden furniture, and it's usually the town people drive past. Can Garanya is the reason to stop. Hand-blown glassware, woven rugs and Mallorcan ceramics, with floor to ceiling rattan that will do something to any interiors enthusiast. It was founded in 1928 by the grandfather of the three cousins who run it now, who was formerly in the rope trade. It's since grown into three shops.

A curated multi-brand store in Palma's Old Town with contemporary fashion, accessories and lifestyle pieces. The selection moves between family-run Mediterranean manufacturers and internationally known heritage labels, picked for pieces that feel like discoveries rather than defaults. There's a café inside, Café Colom by Rosevelvet, where you can get specialty coffee and freshly baked pastries while you browse.

Matthew Williamson opened this lifestyle concept store in Deià, a new chapter after more than three decades in fashion and interiors. The name means 'house in the mountains' and it lives up to it. Set across three rooms in a historic Spanish townhouse, it's packed with colour and atmosphere, inspired by sun-drenched Mediterranean summers and the expressiveness of 1970s design. Williamson's furniture collection is here alongside other pieces, all of it chosen with the kind of personality that makes you want to take it home.

An hour from Palma on the south of the island. The water is see-through and glitters in the afternoon sun. Quiet and secluded, with ladders built into the rocks to get you into the water and a line of fishermen's huts from the twenties along the shore.

An architect from Ibiza founded an artists' colony here in the thirties, designing low whitewashed villas in the Ibizan style. The colony got found by tourists, but Cala Petita, the smallest of the coves, keeps its charm and stays much less busy. Follow the pine down to the crystalline blue water framed by those thirties houses, then take the steel ladders in.

Built in the seventies on the cliffs at Portopetro by Jørn Utzon, who also designed the Sydney Opera House. The house is available to rent from September to June, and otherwise reserved for longer working stays for architects and artists.

A small fishing port on the southeast coast. Home to Can Lis, which is reason enough to come.

Said to be the birthplace of Christopher Columbus and a romantic part of eastern Mallorca. Its residents are down-to-earth and artsy. Swim at the tiny secluded beach at Blue Bar Chiringuito, then eat under the stars with your feet in the sand at S'Arenal in the neighbouring cove.