An Oasis of Peace And Quiet
One of the palatial houses on Carrer Sant Miquel in Palma’s old town affords the most beautiful and peaceful little garden setting. This is an oasis of peace and quiet […]
Hibiscus, the Chinese Rose
One of the nicest flowers that I know has to be the Hibiscus. The plant grows as a bush or as a small evergreen tree. There are some 200 varieties […]
No More Press Kiosks In Palma
The quioscos de prensa in Mallorca’s capital city Palma have disappeared. Actually, the press kiosks are still there, but they have been closed down. There were about fifteen newspaper stalls […]
Es Coll d’en Rabassa
Es Coll d’en Rabassa is a suburb of Palma de Mallorca, not far from the Palma International airport. The suburb is home to just over 10,000 inhabitants, mainly Mallorcans, foresters […]
The Garden in Plaça Reina
At the bottom end of Passeig des Born in Palma de Mallorca you will find the Plaça Reina and its fountain displaying some beautiful cascades of jets of water. Opposite […]
The Sa Nostra Garden
We are really quite lucky in having so many beautiful gardens and parks in Palma de Mallorca. It is marvellous that many of these are open to the public. One […]
The Great Wall of Palma de Mallorca
For many centuries Palma de Mallorca was fortified by a massive great wall, all the way around the city. It would seem, that historians do not always agree as to […]
Top Gear
Regular visitors to this blog will have noticed that sometimes I offer photographic evidence of Palma de Mallorca’s insignias bearing a bat. Here’s another fine example, found on the numberplate […]
The Torre de Pareires in Porto Pí
Palma’s Avinguda Gabriel Roca is locally better known as Passeig Marítim. Interestingly, the water-faced side of this stretch along the seafront does not come under the auspices of Palma’s municipal […]
Raimundus Lullus
Ramon Llull (also Raimundus Lullus or Raimundo Lulio) is probably one of the most important figures in Mallorcan history. I have blogged about him already, in my entry dated November […]
Voluntas Virtus Veritas
Ramon Llull (or Raimundus Lullus) was a very eminent writer, thinker and philosopher. You ought to know a thing or two about him (perhaps you do). Llull is considered one […]
Hail, Raimundus Lullus
Raimundus Lullus, better known as Ramon Llull, was a writer, a mystic and a philosopher from the 13th Century. He was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1232. His personæ […]
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