Menorca (Es Diari) Paywall: How to Read menorca.info Articles for Free

Menorca, known to everyone on the island simply as Es Diari, is the daily newspaper of Menorca. It was founded on 1 February 1941 in Maó, is published by Editorial Menorca and has belonged to Grup Serra, the Mallorca group behind Última Hora, since September 2013. With a staff of around seventy it covers the island's town halls, courts, tourism, fishing, football and festivals in a way that nobody else does, and because the island is small, a story about a police chase in Ciutadella or a block of flats in Maó is shared from phone to phone within the hour. Readers who follow those links to menorca.info often meet the subscription prompt instead of the story. This guide explains how the paywall works and how to read a full article.

How the Menorca paywall works

Menorca runs a metered paywall. Article pages declare themselves as not free to read (the page metadata says isAccessibleForFree: false) and carry a meter that counts how many pieces a visitor has opened. After the allowance is used up the article body is swapped for a prompt to subscribe. The subscription page says subscribers get the e-paper through Kiosko y Más along with unlimited access to the website. The paper is written mostly in Spanish, with some pieces in Catalan.

The gate is enforced in the browser. The full text of the article is delivered in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks the meter and hides the body if you are over the limit. A reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the whole article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters, and Menorca is a textbook example of the softer kind.

Our tests on 24 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:

• A 524-word Menorca court report on the drunk, unlicensed driver chased through Ciutadella, who had nearly killed a Guardia Civil officer in 2022, loaded in full, all 10 paragraphs.
• A 431-word Menorca report on the progress of the new police station in Maó, with the foundations complete and work starting above ground, loaded in full, all 8 paragraphs.
• A 334-word Menorca story on the housing charity Casa 47 receiving a brand-new block of nine flats in Ciutadella from the Sareb bad bank loaded in full, all 9 paragraphs.

A fourth test, a 175-word brief on the police chase itself, also came through in all 7 paragraphs. That is the whole item as published, a short news brief rather than a teaser cut off by the paywall.

Read a Menorca article in full

• Copy the article link. Menorca links look like menorca.info/menorca/sucesos/2026/10/23/ followed by a seven-digit id, the headline in lower case and .html.
• Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
• The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.

The reader shows the article in Spanish (or Catalan, for the pieces written in it), exactly as Es Diari published it. If you want it in English, your browser's built-in translation works on the reader page in the normal way.

Other approaches

• The print replica. The e-paper is sold through Kiosko y Más, which is the same platform many Spanish public libraries use for their digital press collections, so it is worth asking at a library on the island or on the mainland.
• Newsletters and social feeds. Menorca posts its headlines and a summary of most stories on its social accounts, which is enough to follow the day's news even if the article itself is gated.
• Private windows. The meter lives in a cookie, so a private window resets the count for another handful of stories.
• Official sources. Council minutes from the Consell Insular, the eight town halls and the Balearic government, and court communications from the TSJIB, are published free and cover much of what the paper reports.

How it compares with other Spanish papers

Menorca shares its subscription setup with its Grup Serra sister paper Última Hora in Palma. Among the national papers, El Mundo and La Vanguardia both work through the reader, as do the regional titles of Prensa Ibérica covered in our El Periódico guide. El País does not work: elpais.com blocks the reader outright, so there is no El País guide. The full list of sites that work is kept current.

Subscribe if you read it regularly

A daily paper for a single small island is a rare thing, and Es Diari has kept one going since 1941 with a newsroom of about seventy. If you live on Menorca or follow it closely from elsewhere and read the paper most days, a digital subscription, which includes the e-paper through Kiosko y Más, is the right way to keep it going.