Las Puertas de Can Soleil are two tall wooden doors standing in open ground on the cliff above Cala Llentia, in the south-west of the island. They face each other across a few metres of grass, framed with carved Arabic patterning, and they open and close like any other door.
There are no walls between them, which is the point: a room marked out by its two doorways and nothing else, with the sea on one side and the fields on the other.
Who made it
The doors are the work of Andrew Rogers, an Australian sculptor whose land-art project Rhythms of Life has put works in sixteen countries. They were commissioned by Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, who owns the land, and they are open to anyone who walks up.
The distinction matters, because the two names get mixed up: Rogers made them, Laliberte paid for them and left them accessible.
Time and Space, next door
A short walk away stands the piece most people come for without knowing its name. Time and Space is a ring of thirteen basalt columns, raised in 2014 by the same artist. It follows the proportions of the Fibonacci sequence, and the tallest column lines up on the winter solstice sunset.
The basalt was shipped in from Turkey. People call it the Ibiza Stonehenge, which undersells it, but the nickname is how most visitors find it.
Seeing one without the other makes little sense, so allow time for both.
Getting there
The turning is off the road towards Cala Codolar, marked by a stone carved with the name Can Soleil. The surface deteriorates as you go, so most people park where the track turns sandy and walk the last part towards the sea.
There is nothing there: no entrance, no signs, no facilities. Bring water and wear something you can walk over rough ground in.
When to come
Late afternoon. The ground faces west over open water with Es Vedra to the south, and the doors frame the light as the sun drops, which is why photographers come.
It is free and never closed, so the only real constraint is that the track is unpleasant after heavy rain.
Quick answers
Who made the doors? Andrew Rogers, an Australian sculptor. Guy Laliberte commissioned them.
Is it free? Yes, and there is no gate or opening time.
What is nearby? Time and Space, the stone circle, by the same artist.
Where is it? Above Cala Llentia, off the road to Cala Codolar in Sant Josep.
Can you drive to it? Only partway. The last stretch is on foot.
When is the best light? Late afternoon, facing the sunset.