To many of us it’s hard to believe that the Santa Eulalia River has water again.  If this image is hard to see, the one offered in the photograph to the side hasn’t been seen in decades: the ‘Pont d’en Font’ in sight and, what’s more, spanning a metre deep and two metre wide river.

The bridge is also known as ‘Pont d’en Reiet’, which is the name of one of the two smallholdings of the area (the other, how could it not be, is Can Font).  For decades it has been completely covered by the rushes and the reeds, until last year the Santa Eulalia town council’s environment technician, Javi Gomez, had the bright idea of combining the work of the natural spaces cleaning brigade with the recuperation of sites of the island’s heritage.  

That’s when Toni Sendic, in charge of culture, told him about the ‘Pont d’en Font’, the existence of which very few people remembered as it could hardly be distinguished among the plant growth.  And hence the new image it enjoys today.

No documentation about this bridge can be found, nor its date of construction, although it is supposed to have been erected at the end of the 18^th or beginning of the 19^th centuries.  As well as having cleared the vegetation which was obscuring it, it has been protected as a ‘Bien Catalogado’ (the equivalent of a listed building).

For those who are curious about it: it is reached off the San Juan road, shortly beyond the ‘hunters’ crossing’; some 300 metres past Bambudha, on the right hand side if you’re coming from Ibiza, there is a change of level and mud track on the right.  Best to walk the last three minutes or so, and there is the bridge.