Palma de Mallorca

Mallorca

Cathedral, coves and cliffs

Island

Beach

About Palma de Mallorca

Palma is the capital of Mallorca, a real Mediterranean city around a bay, its Gothic cathedral rising straight from the old sea walls.

The old town is a maze of sandstone lanes and hidden courtyards, with Arab baths, a round castle on the hill above and the studios where Miró spent his last decades. Beyond it the Serra de Tramuntana drops into the sea along one of Europe's great coastal roads, and coves of turquoise water are under an hour away.

It's polished and crowded in high summer, gentler in spring and autumn, when the hikers and cyclists arrive.

Eat an ensaïmada for breakfast, pa amb oli with ham and olives, and sobrassada spread on bread.

Get to Palma de Mallorca

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Day trips from Palma de Mallorca

Half day
Valldemossa & Deià
~30 min
Two stone villages in the Tramuntana hills. Valldemossa grew around the charterhouse where Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838; Deià hangs above the sea and was home to the poet Robert Graves, whose house is now a museum.
Half day
Es Trenc
~50 min
A long natural beach of white sand and dunes in the island's protected south, with shallow turquoise water and salt pans behind it, one of the few big beaches without hotels.
Day trip
Sóller
~1 h by vintage
A valley of orange groves reached by a wooden train from 1912 that winds through the mountains; an old tram runs on from the town square to the harbour of Port de Sóller.
Day trip
Cap de Formentor
~1 h 15 min
The island's northern tip: a road along a narrow ridge of cliffs to a lighthouse, with viewpoints over the sea hundreds of metres below. In high season the last stretch is closed to private cars for most of the day.
Day trip
Sa Calobra
~1 h 30 min
A road that coils down a mountainside in hairpins, even looping under itself, to a tiny harbour and the pebble beach where the Torrent de Pareis gorge meets the sea.