Palma Old Town
The Architects Who Wouldn't Leave It Alone
"Antoni Gaudí was hired to fix the lighting in Palma's cathedral."
A Gothic capital built straight on top of a Moorish city, on the island that invented the package holiday and is still arguing about it. Palma rewards walking more than almost anywhere in the Mediterranean.
2 experiences · 22 story stops · GPS audio · Downloadable narration
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22 stops
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1h–1h 15m
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$14.99 city pack
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Read a few of the places covered across Mallorca, then hear the complete stories on location in the app.
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Behind that gateway, at the end of a garden of palms and lemon trees, there's a small square room with a dome on it. That's the Banys Àrabs. The Arab baths. It's about a thousand years old, and it is very nearly the last thing standing.
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landmark
Big square, big Baroque front, one friar standing on a plinth out here in the middle.
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Down this lane there's a café called Ca'n Joan de s'Aigo, which translates as the house of John of the Water. It has been open since about seventeen hundred, and the remarkable thing about it is how little anybody has done to it since.
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landmark
Two buildings here, one on each side of the little street, and they are the same building twice. Same rippling stonework, same curved windows, same wave running along the top as if the whole façade is slowly melting.
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The pale stone palace on the corner of the Born, with the deep first-floor gallery and the iron railing running across it, is the Casal Solleric — and it was paid for entirely in olive oil. That gallery is the thing to look at.
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landmark
La Seu. The cathedral. Get close to the stone, because it's the colour of sand and full of shell fragments — it was quarried out of this island's own seabed, and in low sun the whole building goes gold.
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