Puerto Pollensa was recently described as heaven on earth by award winning Olympic gold cyclist, Bradley Wiggins. However, Bradley isn’t the first famous face to be drawn to this traditional area of the island. We take a look at the celebrities that just can’t get enough of Puerto Pollensa:
Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams’s luxury villa in Puerto Pollensa can be viewed whilst on a boat trip over the Formentor Headland. It is often pointed out to excited visitors, hoping to catch a glance of the singer at home. But even if you’re not lucky enough to spot Robbie in the flesh while pottering around his Pollenca villa, you may be rewarded with the next best thing: a glimpse of the island of Menorca on a sunny day. Okay, so it’s not exactly Robbie, but on a particularly clear day you can see all the way across the ocean to Menorca’s crumbling coastline. With views like that, it’s no wonder Robbie chose the Formentor Headland as his ideal location for a holiday villa in Puerto Pollensa.
Winston Churchill
There’s a lot that you can do whilst on a villa holiday in Puerto Pollensa: horse riding, boat trips and even line dancing. But when British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill holidayed in the area, he liked to paint. Like Robbie, Winston was a fan of the Formentor Headland and although he didn’t own a Pollenca villa in the region, he liked to while away a day sitting on the rocky Formentor Promontory with a paintbrush in his hand. His 5* hotel of choice has introduced many celebrities to the Formentor Region, from Audrey Hepburn to the Prince and Princess of Wales. But whilst we’re impressed, you can’t beat a Pollenca villa for a more traditional stay on the Formentor Headland.
Agatha Christie
When Agatha Christie took her holidays in Pollenca, she preferred to stay in the salubrious Pine Walk region. But although Agatha didn’t own a holiday villa in Puerto Pollensa, her 5* hotel of choice later provided the inspiration for the fictional “Pino d’Oro Hotel” in her short story “Problems at Pollensa Bay”. However, with the book which was published in 1936 concentrating on a failed marriage and a murder at the hotel, we can’t help but feel that Agatha may have had better luck if she’d instead spent her holidays in a Pollenca villa.
Peter Ustinov
Continuing with the Agatha Christie connection, Poirot actor, Peter Ustinov was another regular visitor to the famous Formentor Headland. Peter liked to moor his yacht in the area for two weeks every year and enjoy the slow pace of island life. When Peter was spending time relaxing, he was lucky enough to shoot a number of films on his favourite island. Most notable was ‘Evil Under the Sun’ in which Peter enjoyed his second outing as Agatha’s famous Belgian detective, Poirot. The film which was based on the book ‘Bearn’, was set on the Adriatic Coast, but was filmed along the much warmer Formentor Headland and Raixa County Estate.
Author Resource:-
Lucie Evans is a Mediterranean specialist at Villa Select, a specialist operator with an exclusive selection of Pollenca villas (http://www.villaselect.com/destination.asp?destination=6) and luxury villas in other prime Mediterranean locations.
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