Culture

Mar 20, 2025

+Mallorca, the magazine of Mallorca

More than sun and beach..

Defla houses, a possession with history

A few kilometres away, leaving the town of Sineu, is the Delfa or Adelfa estate, surrounded by extensive farmland and a lush woodland, enclosed within an island made up of the Delfa Houses, a stately home dignifed from the outset by the white marble coat of arms of...

Mallorcan Patios of Palma: Son Vivot in the street Can Savellà

When walking around the heart of Palma, we come across many Majorcan patios that bear witness to history, art and time. One of the most emblematic of these can be found in Can Vivot, on Calle Can Savellà number 4. This manor house was declared an Asset of Cultural...

Ca’n Carasses, Italian architecture in Palma

Ca’n Carasses or Ca’n Pavese is a building in the middle of Palma. Despite its medieval structure, what it is truly famous for are the grotesque faces carved over the entrance door and window architraves. These faces come from a remodel, and are a clear example...

“Snow Houses” before Mallorca had fridges

The so called “snow houses” are an important part of our cultural and ethnological heritage. In Mallorca, collecting and trading snow to make ice dates right back to the 16th century. On the Puig de Masanella you can still see eleven snow houses that were declared...

Guardians of time Mallorca’s sundials

Mallorca has the most sundials per square kilometer in all of Spain. Mallorca boasts an abundance of sundials, many churches, monasteries, and estates still preserve them, the oldest date back to roman times and represent an important ethnographic heritage. Four...

Typical product Mallorca: Siurells

When that came out of Siurell figurine, have been attributed to this small flute magic forces. The winds of Mallorca, Gregal, Llevant, Xaloc, Migjorn, Llebeig, Ponent, Mistral and Tramontana, sometimes infused with fear. For the inhabitants were uncontrollable forces...

Palma City Hall and Consell Insular: captivating samples of baroque and neo-gothic structures in Mallorca

City Hall presides over Plaza de Cort, and all the pretty streets that lead to it; next to City Hall is the palace that is home to the Consell Insular. City Hall was built between 1649 and 1680 following the schematics of a Majorcan manor house,...

Antonia Tomás’s Nativity Scene, a tradition in Mallorca

Antonia Tomás has a special way of celebrating Christmas. Each year she creates a nativity scene that has been getting bigger and bigger as time has passed and this year it will stand no less than 34m2 tall. Every Christmas, hundreds of people from throughout...

Palma de Mallorca’s first four churches

Let’s take a walk through the city's main streets, visiting the first churches to be founded after the conquest of Mallorca. The route starts with Santa Creu, on the corner of Santa Creu and Sant Llorenç streets. This is a beautiful church that doesn’t...

Maria Antònia Salvà

Maria Antonia Salvà (1869 – 1958) is the foremost modern Catalan poet. She lived the early part of her life in La Llapassa, Llucmajor, with her aunts. The contact with the Mallorcan Renaissance and her friendship with the family of Miquel Costa i Llobera developed her...

The Archaeological museum of Son Fornés

The Archaeological museum of Son Fornés is located 2.5 km northwest of the town centre of Montuïri, Mallorca, on the estate which bears the same name which is located 4km from the local road which leads to Pina. Currently, the surface demarcated by the visible...

Mallorca’s Crystal Church, Porciúncula

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,...

Mallorca, cultural destination

Mallorca is so much more than just sun, sand and sea. Mallorca has a very wide and varied cultural offer. Those that love cultural heritage will enjoy the architectonic gems hidden in the centre of Palma, visiting these is like travelling back in time. Neither can...

The Gothic cloisters of Sant Francesc, a haven of peace dating back to the 13th century

The Sant Francesc Royal convent in Palma de Mallorca, set in the square bearing the same name, has a beautiful, perfectly conserved Gothic cloister and constitutes one of the first expressions of this architectural style in Mallorca. It has an irregular...

Palma de Mallorca’s “La Lonja” and it’s guardian angel

There is a magnificent monument on the Paseo Sagrera in Palma de Mallorca that cannot be missed when one visits the city. La Lonja is a marvel of gothic flamboyance, built back in the 15th century. Mallorca’s merchant association commissioned the architect Guillerm...

Art, market and Mallorca?

Market and art; until now two almost contradicting words that when placed together in a sentence can even offend those who think that artists come from another planet and that they can survive with just love and air. Now, if we add to both these words “in Mallorca” we...

Son Real (beach and archaeological ruins)

The Son Real public estate, with an area of 395 hectares, is located on the Northeast coast of Mallorca, in the municipality of Santa Margalida. There are important archaeological, ethnographic and natural remains, which make it a great open-air museum. It is a unique...

Mallorca will be celebrating Father Juníper Serra year

Fray Junípero Serra / placa en Petra

Bulls of Costitx

The “Bulls of Costitx” or “Caps de Bous” (Bull Heads) are three bronze heads from the Talayot period. Bulls of Costitx Found in the year 1894 during excavations at the sanctuary of Son Corró, they were acquired by the National Archaeological Museum, where they are...

Can Prunera Modernist Museum, calendar

There is a varied selection of exhibitions programmed for the Can Prunera Modernist Museum for this year. There will be an exhibition of Mallorca’s classic landscapes, “Paisajes Clásicos en Mallorca” featuring the Serra de Tramuntana, the north coast of Mallorca, the...