Santa Margalida - Llubí - Inca GR 222 (path in project)

The Government divides the Artà - Lluc GR 222 route into 5 stages, of which this is stage 4 (in project). It passes through the thick maquis scrublands around Santa Margalida and the farmlands of the Pla de Mallorca plain, with magnificent views to the Serra de Tramuntana mountains. The stage is not signposted with the typical information posts of the GR 222.

This stage of GR 222 begins in Santa Margalida at the bus stop and passes through the town. At the end of the town the path crosses the Ma-3410 road that connects Santa Margalida with Can Picafort and continues straight ahead along Camí de sa Torre. It is a paved road that runs straight between cultivated fields. A little further on, the paved road ends and continues as a dirt road, which shortly turns left and after 1.65 km ends on the Ma-3430 road that goes from Santa Margalida to Muro.

After walking along this road and passing kilometer point 9, the path turns left after 2.28 km to continue, slightly uphill, along the asphalted Camí de ses Sunyeres and then after 2.70 km Camí de Castellet. The path continues as a wide dirt road and then turns left to the houses of Castellet. After 2.90 km the path becomes narrower and more rustic. And after 3.02 km turns left and becomes even narrower with thick vegetation on both sides. And after 3.51 km reaches and crosses the Muro-María road Ma-3443 and follows the Camí Vell de Sineu path, leaving the municipal term of Santa Margalida and entering that of Muro.

After a few meters the path become a narrow path, hardly visible, that goes out to the right. It starts just to the left of a grid barrier that has a sign that announces the prohibition of passage to the farm. The path gradually becomes more evident, and widens after 4.30 km. It passes by abandoned houses, totally in ruins; and widens to a dirt road after 4.75 km and narrows to a small path again after 5.41 km and the becomes a dirt road again after 5.72 km. The path crosses the dividing line of the municipals of Muro and Llubí, and goes through the Son Tovell pine forest and after 6.14 km ends on the Ma-3440 road that connects Inca with Santa Margalida.

The paths follows this road to the right and after only 20 meters turns left into the Ma-3512 road to take a dirt road shortcut to the right after 20 meters that soon (after 6.60 km) returns to the same Ma-3440 road again. Follow the road for 280 meter and then turn left after 6.88 km to continue on the left along the Camí de Son Sauu de Dalt road.
Later, the road, now asphalted, is called Camí de Can Corbera and continues to the town Llubi after crossing the Ma-3440 by a bridge after 10.71 km. Llubi is entered on Carrer Arraval. Walking down the street Carrer de La Costa to Placa de la Carretera after 11.40 km and continuing on Carrer Nou arriving at the Plaza de l'Església, where the parish church of San Feliu is located.

The walk continues along Carrer de Sant Feliu, leaving the urban core and reaching the Ma-3440 road after 12.44 km where the path continues to the right, along a road paved parallel to the Ma road onto Cami d’es Comellar d’es Lli after 12.77 km. Crossing the river Torrent de Vinagrella after 13.02 km the road later becomes a dirt road and reaches the Enllaç-Sa Pobla railway tracks after 14.06 km. Here the path turns left to follow the Ma-3440 road again until 15.09 km, and then onto a paved road to the right, which runs between cultivated fields and with the Puig de Santa Magdalena in front.

After crossing a wooded area, the path ends on the Ma-3500 road after 16.22 km. Turn left there and follow the Ma-3500 road until 16.95 km where it connects with the Ma-3440 road. The path continues along the Ma-3440 in the direction of Inca for approximately 3 km until the Ma-3440 km 2 mark after 19,01 km. Then turn right onto the road Camí des Rasquell crossing the Torrent d'Inca river and after 19.31 km passing a water well, covered with a grate and with a pipe formed by two columns. Turn left after further 260 meters at 19.57 km. After 20.95 km the path crosses under the Ma-13 Palma-Sa Pobla highway in a tunnel. After 21.42 km turn right when the path again joins the Ma-3440 road, at the height of the Escorxador d'Inca (municipal slaughterhouse).
Turn left when this road called Avinguda dels Reis Catòlics reaches the roundabout and onto Avinguda del Rei Jaume I.
The path ends at the Constància / Hospital d’Inca train station after 22.53 km.

Santa Margalida:
The town and municipality of Santa Margalida is part of the region (Comarca) Plà de Mallorca or Es Plà, the great central plain of the island. The municipality is one of the flattest on Majorca at very little more than 100 m above sea level. The historically proven founding of a municipality took place soon after the Reconquista. Old inscriptions and tombstones bear witness though of the place being inhabited already in Roman times, then called Hero. Later, during the Arab reign, the great estate of Abenmaaxbar was located here. Testament to the wealth is the large parish church of Santa Margalida, which was built in 1232 and renovated in the 17th or 18th century.

Public transportation:
From Palma (Estació Intermodal) take Train T2 or T3 or bus 302 Can Picafort to Hospital d’Inca and from there bus 316 to Santa Margalida.
From Constància / Hospital d’Inca train station take the train to Palma.

The government’s web-page on GR 222 in English:
https://caminsdepedra.conselldemallorca.cat/en/ruta-arta-lluc-gr-222

The government’s guidebook on the GR 222 in Catalan page 36-45:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WXdXgwlFY_Rsl1WtpVL5wliggPUHnOUC/view