INSIDE GUIDE MAHÓN

As Spanish cities go, Mahon is relatively little known to travellers, despite its tumultous history. The port city on Menorca’s southeast coast has been at the centre of centuries of conflict, with everyone from the Moors to the Ottomans and French taking control of its natural harbour, the second largest in the world. But it was the British who left their mark, ruling from the early 18th to the early 19th century, leaving a series of military buildings along the waterfront and on nearby islands...