Looking over at Puig Major, the highest peak in the Tramuntana mountains of Mallorca, this month.  I recorded this time lapse video on 16 January after hiking up to the ruined Castle of Alaró.

Alaró occupies a very special place in the history of the island as the one of the last holdouts of, successively, the Byzantines before they were conquered by the Saracens in the tenth century, and the Saracens before they were conquered by the Catalans in the 13th. You really feel the fear of invaders when you climb up to the fort, isolated on top of a steep hill from which you can watch the plains. It clearly existed for no purpose but to shelter people.