Cantina, enjoy a concert or discover the craftwork by local creators, such as Pere Vinent, Carmen Cocoon and Bona Soca. ‘We want to be a Trojan Horse for art: you can visit an exhibition, take a stroll through nature, join in educational events or have a drink’, she con-cludes. Art at a leisurely pace Elvira González settled on Menorca without imagining that she would open in Maó a contemporary art gallery, Encant, which is 21 years old. ‘This land with an exceptional Talayotic footprint, the centre of so many civilisations and invasions brought by the sea, is the ideal place to make artistic projects flourish’, she assures. ‘Menorca performs a function that verges on therapeutic: natural landscape, slow pace, simplicity and beau-ty’. This creative rebir-th reaches other busi-nesses that assume art as their own. Like the boutique hotel, Can Albertí 1740: a Maó-style mansion where nume-rous artists and writers once stayed, which now includes exhibitions inside the building (in collaboration with galle-ries such as Encant and Polka), besides shaking up the city’s cultural life by organising classical Elvira González en su galería Encant. // Elvira González in her gallery, Encant.