Among the steep slopes of the mountain range parallel to the northwest coast of the island of Mallorca, there is an impressive landscape that, due to its location and orography, makes it particularly unique.
Millenary agriculture in an environment with scarce water resources has transformed the terrain and shows an articulated network of water management mechanisms between the different plots of land of feudal origin. The landscape is made up of terraced cultivation and interconnected water distribution mechanisms including watermills, as well as stone constructions without mortar and farmsteads.
On 29 June 2011 the Serra de Tramuntana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Cultural Landscape category.
This distinction refers to the result of the perfect blend of natural and human factors, as established by the European Landscape Convention.
The Serra de Tramuntana Consortium promotes policies for the improvement and conservation of all these elements and tangible and intangible values, with actions that seek the involvement and participation of all the people who live and work there and that aim to improve human intervention and the sustainability of the Serra de Tramuntana World Heritage territory.
The Serra de Tramuntana encompasses a perfect blend of man and nature. This relationship, which has developed over centuries, has resulted in a great human work in which culture, traditions, aesthetics, spirituality and identity blend together.
The stamp, framed in a block sheet, shows a detail of one of the most recognisable images of this area, where one can appreciate the terraces or marjades so characteristic of the place, where the nature of the mountains and the sea enters into an exceptional symbiosis with the product of man's hand, with the crops and constructions which, despite maintaining the spirit of an ancestral origin, have been adapted to the needs of the new generations and the progress of the times.
