Mercadillo de Santa Gertrudis

The Sunday market on the plaza in Santa Gertrudis is the inland morning ritual that the Ibiza locals build the week around — the artisan jewellery stalls, the leather, the ceramics, the long coffee at the village café that runs from morning to lunch. The plaza is the most genuine Ibiza village square and the market is the rare island event that runs without the coast crowd.

Take the morning at 11h, walk the stalls, sit at the plaza café for the long coffee, lunch inland at Aubergine afterwards. The morning is the right Ibiza answer for the slow Sunday that wants the inland village rather than the coast — and the kind of weekly ritual that the long-stay villa regulars protect from the day-trip lists.

The Sunday plaza morning on the inland day.