LA CIUDAD

La capital de la Comunidad Autónoma de las Islas Baleares es Palma de Mallorca, elegida como sede de la Universiada de 1999. Situada al sur de la Isla, con una población de 350.000 habitantes, tiene buenas comunicaciones por tierra con los cuarenta y nueve municipios restantes que cubren los 3.640 kilómetros cuadrados de extensión. Por mar están cubiertos los servicios con los principales puertos del Mediterráneo y por aire las rutas se encaminan a todos los lugares del mundo. (Información de vuelos del aeropuerto de Son Sant Joan)

La Ciudad , con una superficie de unos 200 Kms² ,que ha conocido diferentes culturas fue fundada por los romanos en el año 123 antes de Cristo, y los vestigios que han quedado de tantas civilizaciones no han impedido que actualmente esté en consonancia con los tiempos modernos. (Más Historia)

Paralelamente a los actos deportivos de la Universiada será de gran relieve la oferta cultural que se iniciará este mismo año con la celebración de conferencias a cargo de destacados dirigentes y deportistas de élite, exposiciones de afamados pintores, etc.

 

 

Otras páginas relacionadas con Palma

Hotel Colon | Ayuntamiento de Palma | Hoteles | Mapas de Mallorca

Playas : Playa de Palma , Playa de Can Pere Antoni y Cala Mayor .

Links: Monumentos | Agencias de Viajes | Rent a car | Restaurantes | Gimnasios | RCD Mallorca

Photos : Playa de Palma , Catedral , Castillo de Bellver , Plano de Palma , Almudaina ,

Fundacions: Miró - La Caixa - Sa Nostra.

Mercados: Diarios - Rastrillo Sábados ( Avenidas ) - Artesanal lunes , viernes y sábados (plaza Major).

Still under constructionMercados

Port and Cathedral

      Palma, capital of Mallorca and of the Illes Balears, it was founded the year 123 aC. for the Roman consul Fifth Cecilio Puts it, developing you as strategic point of the trade in the Mediterranean. He receives the name of Palma, for the palm leaf, as symbol of victory.
      Toward the year 903 D.C., it was invaded by the troops of the emir of Córdoba. The Muslims baptized her Medina Mayurca and it was one of the cities but important of the Al-Andalus, becoming commercial center of the western Mediterranean. The Islamic domain lasted three centuries.
      The king Jaime I conquered it to the Muslims the year 1229, becoming governed, inside the Kingdom of Mallorca, by Jaime II together with the Rosellón and Montpellier. He incorporated to the Calatano-Aragonese crown the year 1349.
      The XVI century it is characterized by a great insecurity due to the Turkish pirates.
      Was because of the Ordinance of New Plant, starting from the XVIII century, when its history is bound to the rest of the Spanish State.

VISITS:

 

      -Catedral. Known popularly as "la Seu", it is the artistic but representative monument of the Illes Balears. It was initiate their construction for the king Jaime II and it was completed totally the year 1.601. The material employee for his construction was the stone of Santanyí. Their towers have 60 meters of altitude with 9 bells.
      Has three portals: Mirador, Almoina and Major.
      The rosettes give a majestic aspect to the interior that has three ships and eight chapels. Of the chapels, the Major and the Trinidad they are of great beauty.
      Its worthy of admiring, the cloister, the pulpits, the room to surrender, the tombs and the treasure.

      -Palacio de la Almudaina. Old Muslim strength located beside the Cathedral that the I laughed Jaime II make in real residence and place of the court. It highlights among the 4 towers, that of the l'Àngelhomage, built by the Muslims. They have been indications of culture talayótica and it is believed that it is the headquarters of the first urban establishment of Palma. At the moment it is the headquarters of the General Captaincy of Balearic and official residence of the Kings of Espanya Don Juan Carlos I and Mrs. Sofía, those which during their stays in Palma, in the Sala Major, they offer their official receptions.

      -Claustro de San Francisco. It works Gothic of slender columns. It was built between the year 1287 and the 1390, it is one of those but beautiful of Palma, he is inside San Francisco's Convent where Fray Junípero lived it Saws before his evangelizing departure for lands of California. Inside the church it is the tomb with the philosopher's remains and theologian mallorquín Ramón Llull.

      -La Llotja. Of Gothic style of the XVI century, building from where it was regulated and it protected the trade and the port was administered. It was built among the years 1421 and 1448. The windows gives him an excellent illumination. It is historical-artistic monument and at the moment it is dedicated to exhibitions and cultural activities.

      -Baños Arabes. They are one of the few vestiges of the Muslim architecture in Mallorca. They have their orígen at the end of the XI century. There is documentation of five Arab bathrooms and one is only conserved in the Street of Ca`n it Salas, 7. Of this last one, the room of the bathroom of vapor is only conserved.

Castle of Bellver

      -Castillo de Bellver. In a circular way, as much their towers as the enclosure, are one of the first panoramics that are come when arriving for sea. It is located 140 meters of altitude. Their construction was ordered by the king Jaime II and its works began among the years 1309 and 1311.

      -Historical center.

      -Patios típicos.

      -Monasterio La Real.

      -Cuevas of Génova.

      -Pueblo Español.

      Surface: 200 Kms².

      Inhabitants: 303.485

      Holidays: 20 January (San Sebastián) - 31 December (Party of the Banner).