Formentor is one of the most beautiful places in the Mallorca coastline. An icon of Mediterranean beauty has been enlarged with the worship of painters, poets and novelists have felt historically this corner of the island.

It is a narrow peninsula, located on the northern tip of Mallorca, in the municipality of Pollença.

His strip of land extends about 12 km and is accessed by a road leading to the lighthouse at Cap de Formentor (Mallorca the only place where you can see sunrise and sunset at sea) and then to the Hotel.

The literary awards are internationally recognized Formentor. The Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes in 2011 received the Formentor Prize for Literature, when the 50th anniversary (1961 - 2011)) of these awards. Other award winners were Samuel Beckett Formentor, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan García Hortelano, Jorge Semprun and Witold Gombrovicz Saul Bellow, among others.

Barceló Formentor is a hotel with great charm and "pedigree", which has recently been restored by the Barceló Group.

In 1928 Adam Diehl, a member of a wealthy family in Argentina, Formentor bought land and built houses and the landmark Hotel Formentor was opened a year later. Diehl had the dream of creating a magical place that could be a meeting point for poets, writers and thinkers. The dream became reality.

At its inception, the hotel was virtually inaccessible by land and could only be reached by sea. Its customers include leading figures such as Winston Churchill, Edward Windsor Haile Selassie, Dalai Lama, Helmut Schmidt, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Marahja of Kapurthala, Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier of Monaco, John Wayne, and Yasser Arafat, among others.

The hotel was the scene between 1999 and 2004 of the six International Forums Formentor, a meeting which brought together heads of state and prominent politicians of the Mediterranean, as Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, or the then Spanish president José María Aznar. Additionally, in September 1995 the hotel hosted the European Summit, which brought together the fifteen EU governments.