Category: Culture

History Bendinat Castle
Bendinat is an old Moorish farm estate, documented in the 13th century with the name ‘Bendinex’.
It has passed through the hands of several families since the 15th century, but it was the marriage between Pedro Caro Álvarez of Toledo and Elisabeth Szécsény Zichy-Ferraris which commissioned the neo-Gothic castle of Bendinat.

Access to the La Real monastery is through a door on the side of the church, there is a two-story cloister, with three point archways supported by spiral columns on the ground floor and fluted pillars on the top floor.

Palma’s Calle Sant Roc 4, holds a long cultural tradition. This palace, that backs on to the Cathedral, has hosted the headquarters of many study related institutions.

Did you know that the garden of the Hesperides is found in Punta Alcanada (Mallorca) Pinar’s hill?

The Crystal church is a structure of dazzling beauty, built upon concrete and iron ribs that sustain 39 stained glass windows, providing the building with a mystical aura. The windows depict scenes of nature and the cosmos, characterising the Franciscan order, combined with biblical scenes.

Ca’n Carasses or Ca’n Pavese is a building in the middle of Palma.
 

A visit to the Diocesan Museum in Mallorca includes a full tour of the island’s Christian art.

In 1571 a wall was built to protect Santanyí from looting by the Saracens, we still access the town’s centre through the old porta murada (gateway).
 

Mallorca is so much more than just sun, sand and sea. Mallorca has a very wide and varied cultural offer.

Calle Temple number 9 is built over an archway that looks like a fortified door. And it is, it covers old Muslim towers and was the access point to the Temple fortress.