San Juan municipality covers the entire northern coast of the island and at its most southerly point reaches almost as far south as Santa Eulalia.
The northern coastline is almost entirely composed of cliffs, where the mountains that make up most of the municipality reach the coast. A rugged and spectacular area of countryside with few settlements, it consists of steep hillsides interspersed with occasional fertile valleys where life seems not only to have stood still, but intends to progress no further...
The town of San Juan de Labritja, the capital town of the municipality, derives its name from the Catalan re-conquest of the island in 1235. After the Moors were expelled from the island, the kings and bishops who had financed the war, but who would never have won it without the active support of a number of counts and noblemen, distributed land to the warlords as a token of gratitude.
The areas of Ibiza that were to change hands in this way were the 'Cavalleria de Labritja I Benissomada', which consisted of three separate areas - L'Albarqueta, the area around what was later to become San Miguel, Benimossada, the flat area around Ibiza town, and Labritja , which includes the areas around San Juan and Portinatx.
It truly is, for the most part, a beautiful, almost unspoilt area of the island.
