The Colònia de Sant Pere is on the coast and has a population of just over 300. There is a wide stretch of coastline, and with the Artà mountains forming a beautiful backdrop, the whole area opens on to the Bay of Alcúdia. The scenery here is magnificent and has been praised by writers such as Priest Rafel Ginard.
   Sa Colònia grew gradually from a farming settlement founded at the end of the 19th century on plans made by the surveyor Antoni Bisquerra. Today it is a quiet residential community with some tourism, far from the madding crowds of most tourist resorts on the island.

   The first families who settled in Sa Colònia built a little oratory dedicated to St Peter, and the new church was consecrated in 1951. Despite the dedication to this Saint, fishing never became commercially viable, and the old wharf, dating from the fifties, has been replaced by a yachting marina. Tourism increased in the sixties, and in summer the population rises dramatically, but the place never loses the atmosphere and rhythms of the old summer resorts of the past.