Editing Palma de Mallorca (section)

== Main sights ==
[[File:Palma Majorca 2019.webm|thumb|Video of main sights]]

=== Plaça d'Espanya ===
The ''Plaça d'Espanya'' is the transport hub of Palma. The [[Palma Intermodal Station|Estació Intermodal]] caters to buses and trains (the latter controlled by [[Mallorca rail network#TIB|TIB]]). The two old buildings are home to the tourist information centre and several cafés sit on either side of the two large escalators which lead into the ''Estació'', which sits underneath a large and popular park. On the lawns are several glass boxes, which let in light and ventilation to the station below ground. There are also train-themed playing structures, each one shaped like a train carriage and named after towns along the line of the [[Ferrocarril de Sóller]], a railway dating back to 1911 which has its [[Ferrocarril de Sóller#Estación de Palma|Palma Station]] right next to the park. Just down the street from here a new bus station is under construction. At the centre of the plaza is a statue of [[James I of Aragon|James I]], Conquistador of Majorca.<ref name=MORCA1>{{cite book|title=Mallorca|last=Tisdall|first=Nigel|publisher=Thomas Cook Publisher|date=2003|isbn=9781841573274|page=48|chapter=Section 1 – Plaça d'Espanya – description of statue of James I}}</ref>

=== Cathedral area ===
[[File:Kathedrale von Palma III.jpg|thumb|[[Palma Cathedral|La Seu, Palma Cathedral]], built between 1229 and 1346]]
Palma is famous for [[Palma Cathedral|La Seu]], its vast cathedral built on a previous [[mosque]] which was built atop an original Christian church. Although construction of the present Cathedral began in 1229, it did not finish until 1601. Catalan architect [[Antoni Gaudí]] was drafted to restore the building in 1901. The Parc de la Mar (Park of the Sea) lies just south, overlooked by the great building which sits above it on the city's stone foundations. Between the two are the town walls.

=== Old city ===
[[File:Mediterranes-stadtleben-mallorca.jpg|thumb|left|Street in Palma's Old City]]
The Old City (in the southeast area of Palma behind the cathedral) is a maze of streets clearly hinting at an Arab past. {{Citation needed|date=August 2015}} Except for a few streets and squares which allow traffic and are populated with tourists most of the time, the walkways of this city quarter are fairly narrow, quiet streets, surrounded by a diverse range of interesting buildings, the architecture of which is comparable to cities such as [[Florence]]. The majority are private houses, some of which are open to the public as discreet museums or galleries. The Old City is also home to the ''Ajuntament'' (or Town Hall), the Convent of the cathedral, and the ''Banys Àrabs''.
[[File:Baños Árabes. Hammams de Mayurqa.jpg|thumb| The ''Banys Àrabs'', one of the few remnants of Madina Mayurqa]]
[[File:Bagno_z11.jpg|thumb| The ''Banys Àrabs'', garden view]]

==== Banys Àrabs ====
The ''Banys Àrabs'' (Arab Baths, in English), one of the few remnants of Palma's [[Moors|Moorish]] past, are situated on Can Serra street, 7, near the Convent of the cathedral. 

The small two-roomed [[brick]] building that once housed the baths is of [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]] origin, dating back to the 11th century<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 March 2021|title=Mallorca Culture: Muslim Water system|url=https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/international/2021/03/29/81647/mallorca-culture-muslim-water-system.html|access-date=24 October 2021|website=majorcadailybulletin.com}}</ref> and possibly once part of the home of a [[Muslim]] nobleman. The bathroom has a [[cupola]] with five [[oculus (architecture)|oculi]] which let in dazzling light. The twelve [[column]]s holding up the small room were pillaged from an earlier [[Roman architecture|Roman]] construction. The floor over the [[hypocaust]] has been worn away by people standing in the centre, mainly to photograph the entrance and the garden beyond it. The whole room is in a rather dilapidated condition. The other room is a brick cube with a small model of the baths as they once were in the corner.