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20-05-2010

 Palma de Mallorca Attractions

Cathedral of Palma de MallorcaPalma de Mallorca Attractions can be explored by foot for they are within the city walls. Surprisingly, the city has almost half a million inhabitants without counting the tourist but it has remained and continued with its slow paced life. Palma is the one and only city in the Balearics parts yet it is quite different from any other city.

The center attraction of sightseeing in palma de mallorca is the Gothic Cathedral with its Baroque churches and the luxurious Renaissance mansions. The Baroque Cathedral in Palma de Mallorca took about 500 years to finish and of course it is more outstanding than any other church in Spain except perhaps the Familia Sagrada in Barcelona.

You would enjoy your sightseeing if you do it by foot for the attractions in Palma can be done and should be done by foot. Seeing the splendor of the floodlit Almudaina Palace and the Cathedral can be a good appetizer for your sightseeing. You can plan to arrive before dusk in the city and head straight to these locations right after you finished handling your hotel arrangements. Seeing it the first time at night would entirely different than seeing it the first time on day time.

Travel guide palma de mallorca cannot just exist without the following tourist attraction in no particular sequence.

  • Bellver Castle has a rather historic and interesting story to boot. You got a well informed tour guide if he will tell what the story is about. I assure you it will was a good one take back home and tell the others.
  • Sierra de Tramuntana is the least appreciated in the area but those who had come to take an unusual vacation knows that it was the greatest hiking trip they had.
  • Cathedral of Palma has also a story that involves the fate of Jaime I to the Virgin Mary in which the church was built as a thank you honoring the Virgin Mary.

These are three attractions that you should try to visit and explore when you are in Palma de Mallorca City.


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