La Seu and the old town
1.6 km · ~half a day · Centre and Sa Portella · 7 stops
- Plaça Major
- Plaça de Cort and the olive tree
- Can Vivot
- Sant Francesc cloister
- Arab Baths
- Mallorca Cathedral
- La Almudaina Palace
144 spots curated with MICHELIN 2026, Emblemàtics Balears and local press · no Eater coverage
Tap a route and it gets drawn on the map, stop by stop.
Tap a pin to see photos, rating and how to get there by metro, bus or on foot. Turn on a route to follow the numbered path.
This interactive map of Palma de Mallorca (Spain) brings together 144 hand-picked places: 54 attractions, 40 restaurants, 28 cafés and 22 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
· Curated by the HOLASIM team · How we make the maps
Tap a route to see it drawn on the map, stop by stop.
1.6 km · ~half a day · Centre and Sa Portella · 7 stops
3.6 km · ~one night · Santa Catalina and Sa Gerreria · 7 stops
3 km · ~3 h · Centre, bakery to bakery · 7 stops
8 km · ~half a day by bike · east seafront · 7 stops
8 km · ~one day · El Terreno, Bellver and Cala Major · 7 stops
La Seu · Sa Portella
Gothic over the sea: a 13.8 m rose window, Gaudí's canopy and Miquel Barceló's ceramic chapel.
Tip: No tourist visits on Sundays, mass only. Go Monday to Friday before 17:15, or Saturday before 14:15.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: catedraldemallorca.org · MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapPalau Reial de l'Almudaina · Sa Portella
An Andalusi fortress turned royal palace: Throne Room, Queen's Palace and a 10th-century marble lion.
Tip: Reopened in July 2026 with new rooms. Closed Mondays; free Wednesday and Sunday 15:00-18:00, box office only.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapBanys Àrabs · Sa Calatrava
The only standing piece of 10th-century Madina Mayurqa: twelve mismatched columns under a skylit dome.
Tip: The baths take five minutes; the garden is worth twice that. Come early, the courtyard is tiny and two groups fill it.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 3 min on foot
Featured in: visitpalma.com · MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapEs Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani · Sant Pere / Es Puig de Sant Pere
Contemporary art inside the Renaissance bastion, with Miró, Picasso and Barceló and a terrace over the bay.
Tip: Fridays you pay what you decide, from €0.10. Arrive by bike and it is €2 any day. Closed Mondays.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina - Sa Feixina stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: esbaluard.org · mallorcadiario
Show on mapCastell de Bellver · Son Dureta / El Terreno
Europe's only circular Gothic castle, 112 m above the bay, with a two-storey courtyard and a dry moat.
Tip: It is not free: €4. Sundays are, and in winter it shuts at 18:00 (15:00 Sundays). Closed Mondays.
🚇 EMT bus to the Castell de Bellver stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapBosc de Bellver · El Terreno
A 100-hectare pine wood climbing to the castle: dirt trails, old cisterns and lookouts over the port.
Tip: Walking up from the seafront is 25 minutes of hill. Bus 46 drops you almost at the gate.
🚇 EMT bus to the Castell de Bellver stop, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapPoble Espanyol · Son Espanyolet
A full-scale model of Spain: Charles V's courtyard, the Puerta de Toledo and working craft workshops.
Tip: The craft workshops run in the morning; by afternoon you get empty replicas and half the point.
🚇 EMT bus to the Poble Espanyol stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapSa Llotja dels Mercaders · La Llotja
Guillem Sagrera's Gothic exchange: six helical columns that open like palms and hold the whole hall.
Tip: It only opens for exhibitions, and entry is free. Check the Govern's listings before crossing town.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapCasal Solleric · Es Born
An 18th-century Baroque palace on the Born, now an art centre with a double-loggia courtyard and roof terrace.
Tip: Free, and one of the few decent public toilets downtown. You can cross the courtyard without seeing the show.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de Joan Carles I stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapCasal Balaguer · Centre
A 19th-century mansion kept with the owner's furniture, pianos and library exactly as he left them.
Tip: Free and almost nobody knows it: see the piano nobile and the courtyard. Closed Mondays.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma · museudemallorca.es
Show on mapFundació Bartolomé March Servera · Sa Portella
A sculpture terrace with Moore, Chillida and Rodin facing the cathedral, plus a 2,000-piece Neapolitan nativity.
Tip: The sculpture terrace is the best shot of La Seu with no queue. Closed Sundays and from mid-afternoon on Saturdays.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de la Reina (Catedral) stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: fundacionbmarch.es · MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapMuseu de Mallorca · Ca la Gran Cristiana · Sa Portella
From talayots to Miró in a 17th-century palace: Islamic ceramics, Gothic altarpieces and Mallorcan furniture.
Tip: It costs €2.40, and nothing on Sundays. Box office only, there is no online sale.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapMuseu Fundación Juan March · Sant Miquel
Seventy works by Picasso, Dalí, Juan Gris and Tàpies in a townhouse on Sant Miquel. Free entry.
Tip: It never charges, any day of the year, but it closes Sundays and holidays and shuts at 14:00 on Saturdays.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 6 min on foot
Featured in: march.es · mallorcadiario
Show on mapGran Hotel · CaixaForum · Centre
Domènech i Montaner's Gran Hotel, the island's first Art Nouveau building, now an exhibition hall.
Tip: Open every day, holidays included, and the ground floor with the Anglada Camarasa murals is free to see.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: caixaforum.org · mallorcadiario
Show on mapBasílica de Sant Francesc · Monti-sion
13th-century Gothic holding Ramon Llull's tomb and the city's most worked Baroque doorway.
Tip: The cloister is the point, not the church: 115 different columns and orange trees. It shuts at midday.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapClaustre de Sant Francesc · Monti-sion
A Gothic cloister of 115 columns, each carved differently, around a courtyard of orange trees and a well.
Tip: At 10:00 the sun cuts in diagonally from the south side: half an hour when the photo has no harsh shadows.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Diòcesi de Mallorca
Show on mapPlaça de Cort · s'Olivera · Cort
The town hall with the city's longest wooden eave, and a twisted olive tree over 600 years old.
Tip: The olive is not local: it was transplanted from Pollença in 1989. Shoot it from the bench opposite.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma · MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapPlaça Major · Centre
The arcaded central square, built over the old Inquisition seat, with a craft market and buskers.
Tip: The craft market runs Monday to Saturday; in winter it starts around 10:00 and not every day.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPasseig des Born · Es Born
The plane-tree promenade that was a stream, then a jousting ground, now the luxury shopping street.
Tip: The two sphinxes at either end are the local meeting point: 'ens veiem a ses esfinxs'.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de la Reina - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapMercat de l'Olivar · Sindicat
Palma's big market: a huge fish hall, sobrassada cut to order and bars that cook what you just bought.
Tip: It shuts at 15:00 and does not open Sundays. Llampuga is in season until December: ask at the fish counter.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 4 min on foot
Featured in: mercatolivar.com · MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapMercat de Santa Catalina · Santa Catalina
The 1920s neighbourhood market where you eat standing: variat, oysters, dim sum and wine before noon.
Tip: The bars fill at 12:00 and close at 15:00. Monday is the weak day: many stalls stay shut.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · mercatsantacatalina
Show on mapParc de la Mar · Sa Calatrava
The artificial saltwater lake that mirrors the whole cathedral, with a Miró ceramic mural on the wall.
Tip: The reflection works at sunset, which now falls at 17:53. If there is wind the mirror breaks up.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 4 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPalma Aquarium · Can Pastilla
Europe's deepest shark tank at 8.5 m, plus a Mediterranean garden, a jungle dome and rays you can touch.
Tip: One of the very few Platja de Palma places that does not shut in low season. Book online, the gate price is higher.
🚇 EMT bus to the Aquarium stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Última Hora 26-10-2026 · palmaaquarium.com
Show on mapEstadi Mallorca Son Moix · Son Moix
RCD Mallorca's La Liga ground: 25,736 seats after the rebuild that removed the athletics track.
Tip: Mind the name: since 2022 it is Estadi Mallorca Son Moix, not Iberostar or Visit Mallorca. Entry is by phone ticket.
🚇 EMT bus to the Can Valero - Zona comercial stop, 4 min on foot
Featured in: rcdmallorca.es · Wikipedia
Show on mapMuseu Marítim de Mallorca · Ses Voltes · Sa Calatrava
Under the city-wall vaults: lateen-sail boats, nautical charts and the story of Palma's port.
Tip: Free entry and a stone roof: the cheapest rainy-day plan downtown, two steps from the cathedral.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 3 min on foot
Featured in: museudemallorca.es · Consell de Mallorca
Show on mapCan Vivot · Canamunt
Palma's most spectacular courtyard: Corinthian columns, flattened arches and a grand staircase.
Tip: Palma's courtyards are seen from the entrance hall, without going in: Can Vivot's gate is usually open in the morning.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma · Ruta dels Patis
Show on mapTeatre Principal de Palma · Centre
The island's opera house since 1860, a red-and-gold horseshoe of boxes with its own opera season.
Tip: The theatre café is open to anyone without a ticket and has one of the calmest terraces downtown.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
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Show on mapPorta de Santa Catalina · Es Puig de Sant Pere
The only Renaissance gate left of Palma's walls, with its coat of arms and the moat turned into a garden.
Tip: From the bridge above you get the only spot where wall, moat and sea fit in one frame.
🚇 EMT bus to the Es Baluard stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapCastell de Sant Carles · Porto Pi / Sant Agustí
A 17th-century fort at the harbour mouth, now a military museum with an armoury, cannon and bay views.
Tip: Entry is free and it shuts at midday. From the bastion you watch the cruise ships come in through Porto Pi.
🚇 EMT bus to the Escola de Nàutica stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapFundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca · Cala Major
Miró's studio exactly as he left it in 1983, brushes unwashed, plus Rafael Moneo's gallery building.
Tip: Free on Saturdays from 15:00, and the first Sunday of the month from 10:00 to 15:00. Closed Mondays.
🚇 EMT bus to the Saridakis (Fundació Miró) stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: miromallorca.com
Show on mapMuseu Diocesà de Mallorca · Sa Calatrava
The bishop's palace with Gothic panels, the Passion altarpiece and a courtyard facing Parc de la Mar.
Tip: It is included in the cathedral combined ticket, so if you already paid for La Seu do not pay twice.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 4 min on foot
Featured in: catedraldemallorca.org
Show on mapCoves de Gènova · Gènova
Caves 36 m deep, found in 1906, with stalactites and columns eleven minutes from the centre.
Tip: Visits are guided every half hour; the stairs are narrow and wet, so do not come in sandals.
🚇 EMT bus to the Camí dels Reis stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapBorn del Molinar · Es Molinar
The promenade square of the old fishing quarter, El Remei church at the end and boats beached opposite.
Tip: The seafront bike lane runs through here: from Parc de la Mar it is 20 flat minutes to Ciutat Jardí.
🚇 EMT bus to the Llucmajor 56 stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapEstació del Ferrocarril de Sóller · Plaça d'Espanya
The 1912 station where the wooden train to Sóller leaves: 27 km, 13 tunnels and the Tramuntana range.
Tip: It leaves from Palma, not Sóller: four departures a day, €23 one way and €30 return. Sóller is off this map.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 1 min on foot
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Show on mapPalau Municipal d'Esports de Son Moix · Son Moix
The 5,000-seat arena where European champions Illes Balears Palma Futsal play their home games.
Tip: It is still called Palau Municipal d'Esports, not Palma Arena: that is the velodrome, in another district.
🚇 EMT bus to the Son Moix stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapBaluard des Príncep · Sa Calatrava
The 16th-century bastion reopened as a lookout: you walk on top of the wall with the cathedral beside you.
Tip: Free and almost always empty. At sunset the wall turns orange against a dark blue sea: a postcard shot.
🚇 EMT bus to the Av. Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapMuseu del Fang de Marratxí · Sa Cabaneta, Marratxí
The home of Pòrtol pottery: hand-painted white siurell whistles, clay cooking pots and old wood kilns.
Tip: Pòrtol does fit this map, even though it is Marratxí. A real siurell is white with green and red stripes, and whistles.
🚇 TIB bus to the Nicolau Cotoner (sa Cabaneta) stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Marratxí
Show on mapTorre de Paraires · Torre d'en Pau · Porto Pi
A 16th-century defence tower on the harbour point, where the chain that closed the mouth to corsairs was fixed.
Tip: From here you see the cruise cap in action: since 2026 only three ships at once and one mega-ship a day.
🚇 EMT bus to the Port de Palma (Estació Marítima) stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapPlane spotting · Aeroport de Son Sant Joan · Aeroport
The spot on the fence where aircraft pass barely 30 m over your head landing on Palma's runway 06L.
Tip: In low season there are far fewer flights: the good window is 09:00 to 11:00, when the northern arrivals come in.
🚇 EMT bus to the Camí de Sant Jordi stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapPlatja de Can Pere Antoni · Es Portitxol
The city beach with the cathedral behind it: 600 m of sand ten minutes' walk from the centre.
Tip: The sea is at 23.8°C today: you can still swim in October. What closed is the beach bar, not the water.
🚇 EMT bus to the Joan Margall stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Open-Meteo Marine 27-10-2026 · Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPlatja des Portitxolet · Es Portitxol
Portixol's tiny cove, with coloured boats moored and the best breakfast terrace on the seafront.
Tip: It is small with no shade: bring a towel early. The walk to Es Molinar is ten flat minutes.
🚇 EMT bus to the Llucmajor stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPlatja des Molinar · Es Molinar
Fine sand in front of the old fishing quarter, with the palm promenade and El Remei church behind.
Tip: This is where people from Palma swim, not tourists: in October you get half the sand to yourself.
🚇 EMT bus to the Llucmajor 144 stop, 3 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPlatja de Ciutat Jardí · Ciutat Jardí
White sand and calm water in front of a 1920s villa district, with pines right down to the shore.
Tip: The seafront bike lane reaches here from the centre: 8 flat km without a single big traffic light.
🚇 EMT bus to the Cardenal Rossel stop, 6 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPlatja de Can Pastilla · Can Pastilla
The north end of Platja de Palma, with a marina, a boardwalk and sand sheltered from the wind.
Tip: 41 Platja de Palma hotels close at the end of October and 47 more in November: book knowing what stays open.
🚇 EMT bus to the Palangres stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Última Hora 26-10-2026
Show on mapPlatja de Palma · Platja de Palma
Six kilometres of straight sand with numbered beach stations 1 to 15, the bike promenade and pines behind.
Tip: Locals navigate by beach-station number, not street: 'see you at Balneari 6' actually means something.
🚇 EMT bus to the Bartomeu Riutort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPlatja de s'Arenal · S'Arenal
The south stretch of Platja de Palma, with s'Arenal marina, clear water and far fewer people outside summer.
Tip: Airport bus A2 runs here all year; the last one leaves around 23:20, not later.
🚇 EMT bus to the Balneari 5 stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapPlatja de Cala Major · Cala Major
A fine-sand cove under the pines, five minutes' walk from the Miró Foundation, looking across the bay.
Tip: Pair it with the Miró Foundation on a Saturday: free museum entry at 15:00, then down to the beach.
🚇 EMT bus to the Joan Miró - Nixe stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma · miromallorca.com
Show on mapPlatja d'Illetes · Illetes
Three linked coves of turquoise water with islets opposite, on the western edge of Palma bay.
Tip: Bus 104 takes 25 minutes from the centre; there is no natural shade and the beach bars have closed, bring water.
🚇 TIB bus to the Platja de ses Illetes stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Calvià
Show on mapCala Comtesa · Illetes
The hidden cove just behind Illetes, with pines, flat rocks to jump from and almost no sand at all.
Tip: A five-minute dirt path from Illetes gets you there; bring water shoes, the bottom is rock.
🚇 TIB bus to the ses Illetes stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Calvià
Show on mapEsglésia de Santa Eulàlia · Canamunt
Palma's first Gothic parish, from 1236, with three naves of equal height and a climbable bell tower.
Tip: You can climb the bell tower by appointment: 170 steps and the best rooftop view of the old town.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Diòcesi de Mallorca
Show on mapMonestir de Santa Clara · Sa Calatrava
A 1256 enclosed convent where the nuns sell sweets through a revolving hatch without seeing your face.
Tip: Ring the bell, say what you want and leave the money in the hatch: short hours, roughly 09:30 to 12:30.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 3 min on foot
Featured in: Diòcesi de Mallorca
Show on mapEsglésia de Monti-sion · Monti-sion
A Baroque façade overflowing with carved stone, in the old Jewish quarter, Palma's call mayor.
Tip: You are in the medieval Jewish quarter: follow Monti-sion and Can Fonollar to spot doorways with mezuzah marks.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPasseig de la Rambla · La Rambla
The flower-stall promenade, with century-old plane trees and two Roman-emperor statues from 1937.
Tip: For Tots Sants, 1 November, these stalls fill with chrysanthemums: it is the florists' big week.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 7 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapPasseig del Portitxol · Es Portitxol
Portixol's seafront walk, with low painted fishermen's houses and sailboats pulled up on the sand.
Tip: The best place in Palma for sunrise over the sea: the sun comes up at 07:11 and the walk faces east.
🚇 EMT bus to the Joan Margall stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Palma · Open-Meteo
Show on mapMarc Fosh · Convent de la Missió · La Missió
One MICHELIN star in a 17th-century convent: a Mediterranean tasting menu and the calmest patio downtown.
Tip: The weekday lunch menu costs a fraction of the dinner one and is served in the same patio.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN España & Andorra 2026 · The Infatuation
Show on mapDINS Santi Taura · El Llorenç · Sa Calatrava
One MICHELIN star for Mallorcan recipes rescued from archives, served at an eleven-course counter.
Tip: Sixteen counter seats and a single menu, Origens, that changes each season. Book weeks ahead.
🚇 EMT bus to the Av. Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga stop, 4 min on foot
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Show on mapZaranda · Hotel Es Princep · Sa Calatrava
Fernando Pérez Arellano's one MICHELIN star: pickles to open and Arab echoes, up on the city wall.
Tip: It is not in Es Capdellà any more: it moved to Palma, to the Es Princep hotel in Sa Calatrava, entrance on Bala Roja.
🚇 EMT bus to the Av. Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN España & Andorra 2026 · Gastroeconomy
Show on mapQuadrat · Sant Francesc Hotel Singular · Monti-sion
The old stables of a 19th-century palace, now a rice house: arròs brut, matances rice and rockfish rice.
Tip: Rice dishes are for two minimum and take 35 minutes: order as you sit, not after the tapas.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN Guide · hotelsantfrancesc.com
Show on mapCeller Sa Premsa · Sant Miquel
A 1958 celler with nine-metre barrels on the wall: frit mallorquí, tumbet and sopes in deep bowls.
Tip: No bookings, closed Sundays. Arrive at 13:00 or you queue: tables are shared.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
Featured in: cellersapremsa.com · prensa local
Show on mapAromata · La Missió
Andreu Genestra's modern Mallorcan cooking in an 18th-century palace: porcella, sobrassada and island oils.
Tip: The weekday lunch menu is one of the best value deals downtown: three courses plus dessert.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · aromatarestaurant.com
Show on mapFera Restaurant · La Missió
Mediterranean with Asian spice in a courtyard with a vertical garden, and a parallel vegetarian menu.
Tip: There is a full vegetarian tasting menu, not just odd dishes: say so when booking, not at the table.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · ferarestaurant.com
Show on mapBotànic · Hotel Can Bordoy · La Llotja
Garden cooking in Palma's greenest courtyard: Sóller prawn carpaccio and spicy mango gazpacho.
Tip: The garden belongs to a hotel and is invisible from the street: go in via Can Fortuny even just for a drink.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de la Reina - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · canbordoy.com
Show on mapEl Camino · Sant Nicolau
A wine counter with an open kitchen: Padrón peppers, stuffed courgette flowers and the house tortilla.
Tip: No reservations: put your name down and wait in the bar next door, they text you.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapVandal · Santa Catalina
Night-time tapas with a Latin accent: a ceviche cone and croquettes of corn, pork and huitlacoche.
Tip: Dinner only, and the kitchen runs late: one of the few places in Palma where you eat at 23:00.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça del Progrés stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation
Show on mapBar España · Cort
Counter pintxos since 1950: bravas with sobrassada, ham croquettes and draught vermouth at noon.
Tip: You eat standing and pay by counting the toothpicks: do not throw them away, they are the bill.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 9 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation
Show on mapVermuteria La Rosa · Canamunt
House vermouth and a tortilla pintxo the size of a brick, plus Mallorcan charcuterie at lunch.
Tip: Vermouth hour here is 12:30, not 19:00: arrive at 14:00 and the tortilla is gone.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation
Show on mapBodega La Rambla · La Rambla
A 1940s tavern serving the house variat, a plate of everything from that day, including a vegetarian version.
Tip: The variat is a plate with a bit of everything from that day: order it without reading the menu, like the locals.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation
Show on mapToque de Queda · Sant Jaume
Small Mallorcan-Italian plates: island charcuterie and cheese boards, and a burrata salad.
Tip: The cheese on the board is not Mahón, however often people ask: Mahón is from Menorca. Ask for formatge de Mallorca.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · DOP register
Show on mapStagier Bar · Santa Catalina
Small plates with serious technique: sourdough with chimichurri butter and avocado rolls stuffed with lobster.
Tip: Twelve seats, dinner only: with no booking, try 19:30 when the doors open.
🚇 EMT bus to the Andrea Doria 2 stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation
Show on mapArume Sake Bar · Santa Catalina
Japanese cooking with Balearic produce: the dim sum of the day and llampuga nigiri when it is in season.
Tip: Llampuga is in season until 31 December: the only time of year it makes the menu.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapOmbú · La Llotja
Charcoal grill with island produce on a La Llotja corner, with a terrace under the arcades.
Tip: La Llotja fills at 21:00 and empties by 23:30: eat at 20:00 and the terrace is yours.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de la Reina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapDuke Restaurant · Santa Catalina
Asian- and Mexican-rooted fusion in Santa Catalina, with a blackboard that changes weekly.
Tip: There is a neighbourhood-priced lunch menu, Tuesday to Friday only, and it sells out before 14:00.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapCanela Bar de Tapas · Sant Jaume
Chef-driven tapas at a narrow counter: creamy croquettes, bluefin tuna and daily blackboard dishes.
Tip: Nine stools and no evening bookings: by 20:00 there is already a queue on the pavement.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapPatrón Lunares · Santa Catalina
A seafaring tavern with fishing nets overhead: market fish, rice dishes and island tinned seafood.
Tip: The catch of the day is called out, not printed: ask what came off the market that morning.
🚇 EMT bus to the Caro - Col·legi Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapBeatnik · Hotel Can Bordoy · La Llotja
Grill and ferments in a restored 16th-century house, with a bougainvillea patio and a short menu.
Tip: It shares the house with Botànic: if one is full, try the other, the kitchen is the same school.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de la Reina - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapSantina · Santa Catalina
Market Mediterranean in Santa Catalina, with fish and vegetables bought across the street that morning.
Tip: It is fifty metres from Mercat de Santa Catalina: eat here after walking the stalls, not before.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapMolta Barra · Sa Gerreria
Mallorcan tapas with local produce in Sa Gerreria, the quarter that went from rough to dining room.
Tip: Sa Gerreria is Palma's new eating quarter, three blocks from Plaça Major: no old guidebook has it.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de sa Quartera stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapTast Unió · Centre
A classic Palma tapas counter: Galician octopus, stuffed piquillo peppers and ham croquettes.
Tip: One of the few downtown that serves food all afternoon: it saves you when everything else shuts at 16:00.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapSa Llotja des Peix · Es Jonquet / Moll
The port's fish auction hall turned restaurant: whatever landed that morning, grilled and unfussy.
Tip: Closed Sundays and Mondays, when the fleet stays in. Fish lands at 07:00 and is cooked at 13:00.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina - Sa Feixina stop, 3 min on foot
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Show on mapCocco · Es Portitxol
A terrace over Portixol cove with Mediterranean cooking and breakfasts that run into mid-afternoon.
Tip: The front-row terrace books days ahead: ask explicitly for 'mesa de fuera' or you sit inside.
🚇 EMT bus to the Llucmajor stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapOla del Mar · Es Portitxol
Rice dishes and baked fish facing the water at Portixol, with the low-rise quarter behind.
Tip: Book for sundown: at 17:53 Portixol turns golden and the terrace faces exactly that way.
🚇 EMT bus to the Es Portitxol stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapClandestino Taco Bar · La Missió
Chef-made tacos in a tiny La Missió room, with nixtamalised corn masa ground and pressed in house.
Tip: Twenty seats and no bookings: the queue starts at 20:15 and by 21:00 you are not getting in.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 9 min on foot
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Show on mapBar Abaco · La Llotja
A Baroque courtyard piled with fruit, flowers and candles, classical music and a long cocktail list.
Tip: It opens at 20:00 and the first cocktail costs what dinner does elsewhere: step in, look, then decide.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de la Reina stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN Guide · prensa local
Show on mapBar Joan Frau · Mercat de Santa Catalina · Santa Catalina
The market counter where you order the variat and eat it standing up between the fish stalls.
Tip: It opens with the market and shuts at 15:00. Closed Sunday, quiet on Monday.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapNaan Street Food · Santa Catalina
Asian street food in Santa Catalina: bao buns, curry and freshly baked naan in a ten-table room.
Tip: One of the very few in the quarter open on Sunday night, when Santa Catalina shuts down.
🚇 EMT bus to the Caro stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapO'Olivera - Tapas · Cort
Tapas facing the Plaça de Cort olive tree, with a terrace on the old town's most photographed square.
Tip: The Cort terrace carries a surcharge, but the olive tree's shade at noon earns it, in summer and in October.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapMercat 1930 · Paseo Marítimo
A food hall on the seafront with twenty stalls, from oysters to rice, and long shared tables.
Tip: Open until midnight all year, when half of Palma has shut: the safest late plan on the seafront.
🚇 EMT bus to the S'Aigua Dolça 2 stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapEs Mercat · Santa Catalina
Modern Mallorcan facing the market: tumbet, arròs brut and vegetables that came in that morning.
Tip: A proper tumbet has the aubergine, pepper and potato fried separately: if it arrives all mixed, it is not.
🚇 EMT bus to the Caro stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapSt. Ambròs · Canamunt
Neighbourhood Italian in the old town, with fresh pasta and a terrace on a pedestrian street.
Tip: It sits on a car-free street: one of the few central terraces where you dine without scooter noise.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 9 min on foot
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Show on mapCeller Pagés · La Llotja
A small family celler in La Llotja, with the usual Mallorcan menu at neighbourhood prices.
Tip: Order the frit mallorquí: liver, potato and vegetables sautéed with fennel. Not for everyone, but it is the dish here.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de la Reina - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapJapo · Santa Catalina
Casual Japanese in Santa Catalina with sushi cut from fish off the market and a ten-seat counter.
Tip: The lunch menu is half the price of the evening card and runs until 15:30.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina - Sa Feixina 1 stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapWasabi Sushi Bar & Restaurant · Santa Catalina
Palma's veteran Japanese restaurant, with Sóller red prawn nigiri and short seasonal omakase menus.
Tip: The Sóller red prawn is the island's star product: if it is on the board, order it however pricey.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapCasa Julio · Cort
An old-school bar a step from Plaça de Cort, with a set lunch, tapas and a counter full of locals.
Tip: The set lunch runs 13:00 to 15:30 and costs less than two coffees on the Born. No English menu.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapVermuteria · Can Pastilla
Draught vermouth and tinned seafood right on the beach at Can Pastilla, terrace facing the marina.
Tip: Open all year, which in Can Pastilla is no small thing: 41 hotels on this strip close in October and 47 in November.
🚇 EMT bus to the Aeroport - Sortides stop, 7 min on foot
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Show on mapCa'n Joan de s'Aigo · Carrer de Can Sanç 10 · Canamunt
Thick chocolate with ensaimada since 1700, in a room of marble, mirrors and old-fashioned lamps.
Tip: This is the 1700 original. Order chocolate with ensaimada and a quarto; the almond granissat is a summer thing.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de sa Quartera stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapCan Joan de s'Aigo · Sindicat · Sindicat
The second house of the 1700 chocolate shop, with the same quartos, cocarrois and almond ice cream.
Tip: If Can Sanç has a queue, you sit here just the same and the kitchen is identical. Closed Tuesdays.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 6 min on foot
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Show on mapCa'n Joan de s'Aigo · Baró de Santa Maria del Sepulcre · Es Puig de Sant Pere
The newest branch of the 1700 house, with its own ice cream counter and the same Mallorcan sweets.
Tip: The almond ice cream uses Mallorcan almond, which has its own PGI: take it in a cup to actually taste it.
🚇 EMT bus to the Jaume III stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears · registro IGP
Show on mapForn Fondo · Centre
A 1742 bakery with over twenty ensaimada varieties and a Belle Époque interior of wood and mirrors.
Tip: The angel-hair ensaimada is the one to try. They make a gluten-free version of the quarto embetumat.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. del Mercat stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN Guide · Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapFornet de la Soca · antic Forn des Teatre · Centre
Mallorcan baking archaeology behind the Art Nouveau front of Forn des Teatre: cocarrois, robiols and gató.
Tip: The postcard Forn des Teatre did not close: Fornet de la Soca took it over in 2021 and bakes 19th-century recipes.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
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Show on mapEl Fornet de la Soca · Sant Jaume · Sant Jaume
Tomeu Arbona's original workshop: coca de trampó, panades and sweets from monastery recipe books.
Tip: What comes out of the oven changes daily and sells out before noon: for cocarrois, go before 11:00.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
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Show on mapForn de la Glòria · La Llotja
A bakery recorded as early as 1717 and on this corner since 1870: country bread, cocas and seasonal pies.
Tip: For Tots Sants they bake panellets and rosaris ensucrats: only this week and on 1 November.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de la Reina stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapforn de la Concepció · La Missió
A neighbourhood bakery on a street of palaces, with breakfast-sized ensaimadas and coca de patata.
Tip: A real ensaimada uses saïm, pork lard: if they sell it with vegetable fat, it is not the PGI one.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears · registro IGP
Show on mapforn de la Pau · La Llotja
A historic La Llotja bakery still firing with wood: meat panades and vegetable cocarrois every morning.
Tip: The cocarroi holds vegetables and is folded into a half-moon; the panada holds meat and is sealed on top.
🚇 EMT bus to the Jaume III stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapForn del Santo Cristo · Sant Miquel
An old-school bakery on Sant Miquel street, counter piled with quartos, rubiols and gató d'ametlla.
Tip: Gató is Mallorca's flourless almond cake: it is eaten with almond ice cream on top, not on its own.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 4 min on foot
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Show on mapPanaderia S'Estació · Sindicat
A bakery by the station with the big take-away ensaimada, the one that flies in an octagonal box.
Tip: The octagonal box passes as hand luggage on almost every airline, but it crushes: overhead only, never underseat.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 6 min on foot
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Show on mapRebosteria del monestir de Santa Clara · Sa Calatrava
The enclosed nuns sell their sweets through a revolving hatch: you never see them, you hear the price.
Tip: Ring the bell, say what you want, put the money in the hatch and it turns back with your box. Mornings only.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapMistral Coffee · Centre
Mallorca's best-known specialty coffee house, with its own roast and a different filter brew each day.
Tip: They roast their own: ask for the day's filter, not the flat white, if you want to taste the bean.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapMistral Coffee House · Plaça Weyler · Centre
A sunny terrace on Plaça Weyler, next to the Art Nouveau Gran Hotel, with the same house roast.
Tip: The city's best terrace for looking at Domènech i Montaner's façade without paying to enter anything.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapLa Molienda · Carrer Bisbe Campins · La Missió
Toasts, eggs and bowls with house-roasted coffee on a little square with a flame tree and a fountain.
Tip: At 10:30 on a weekend the wait is 40 minutes: on a weekday you walk straight in.
🚇 EMT bus to the passeig Mallorca - Instituts stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapLa Molienda · Arxiduc · Arxiduc
The second house, brighter and less touristy, with a daily special that changes every day.
Tip: Here you do get a table at 11:00 on a Saturday. It is on Arxiduc, the street where real Palma eats.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 3 min on foot
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Show on mapCafè Riutort · La Missió
An urban-interior café with a near-vegetarian menu, a lunchtime place for people who live nearby.
Tip: It is on Carrer del Carme, a block with three good cafés in a row: if this one is full, two more are next door.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 6 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapSurry Hills · La Missió
Australian coffee with an Argentine accent: proper flat whites, a long brunch and dulce de leche alfajores.
Tip: The alfajores run out mid-morning and are not restocked until the next day: order with the coffee, not after.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
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Show on mapRosevelvet Eatery · La Missió
The only specialty café in Palma with its own bakery and patisserie, in a minimalist room.
Tip: They bake twice a day: 08:30 and around 16:00. Almost nobody knows about the second batch.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
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Show on mapEl Perrito Café · Santa Catalina
Santa Catalina's brunch spot: the classic llonguet and toast with DOP Mallorcan olive oil.
Tip: The llonguet is Palma's bread roll, with a slit down the middle. If it is not out yet, you came too early.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: The Infatuation · registro DOP
Show on mapMama Carmen's Coffee & Kitchen · Santa Catalina
Long breakfasts on Santa Catalina square, with fresh-fruit muesli and a vegan sister shop a block away.
Tip: The Coffee & Bakery branch next door is the vegan one: same name, different menu.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça del Progrés stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapPlumo · Monti-sion
A neighbourhood café on Plaça Quadrado that also rents, sells and fixes vintage bikes and runs group rides.
Tip: They rent city bikes by the day: from here to Portixol on the seafront lane is 15 flat minutes.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapEl Grano de Café · Santa Catalina
A neighbourhood roastery-café in Santa Catalina, with loose beans and filters brewed to order.
Tip: They sell beans by weight: the lightest edible souvenir you can take home from Palma.
🚇 EMT bus to the Santa Catalina stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma
Show on mapCafè El Molinar · Es Molinar
A village café on Born del Molinar, with tables on the square and the sea a hundred metres away.
Tip: The natural stop on the seafront walk: coffee here, Platja des Molinar opposite, Portixol ten minutes on.
🚇 EMT bus to the Llucmajor stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapRivareno Gelato · Plaça de la Llotja · La Llotja
Over a hundred gelato flavours made fresh daily with no hydrogenated fats or colourings, facing Sa Llotja.
Tip: Ask for the Mallorcan almond one if it is there: they only make it when island almonds come in, not year-round.
🚇 EMT bus to the Antoni Maura stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN Guide
Show on mapGelats Ca'n Miquel · Es Born
A classic Mallorcan ice cream shop with granissat d'ametlla and almond, fig and ensaimada flavours.
Tip: Granissat d'ametlla is frozen almond horchata, not tiger-nut: the tiger-nut one is Valencian, this is local.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapFika Farina · Sindicat
A Scandinavian bakery in Palma: cardamom buns, rye bread and filter coffee on the Sindicat.
Tip: It is on the Sindicat, the pedestrian street of long-standing shops: the mid-shopping pause.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
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Show on mapes Petit Bar · Cort
A tiny long-standing bar beside Plaça de Cort, with stovetop coffee and the day's papers on the counter.
Tip: Here you ask for 'café amb llet' and it costs half what it does on the Born, two blocks away.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapRialto Living · Sant Feliu
A Scandinavian-Mediterranean concept store in a palace: fashion, interiors, an art gallery and Café Rialto.
Tip: The café inside charges no entry and is one of the few old-town spots with wifi, a sofa and a toilet.
🚇 EMT bus to the Pl. de la Reina - Catedral stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: MICHELIN Guide · rialtoliving.com
Show on mapVidrios de Arte Gordiola · Centre
The Palma shop of the Gordiola glassmakers, blowing glass in Mallorca since 1719: glasses and lamps.
Tip: The factory with the furnace and museum is not in Palma but in Algaida, off this map: this is the shop.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears · gordiola.com
Show on mapMajorica · Centre
The house of the Manacor pearl, made since 1890 with a nacre method that is still a secret.
Tip: The pearl is made in Manacor, not Palma, and is neither natural nor cultured: it is nacre, and comes certified.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 9 min on foot
Featured in: majorica.com
Show on mapLa Pajarita · Colmado i Bomboneria · Sant Nicolau
A chocolate shop and grocer since 1872: Mallorcan almond turrón, own-made chocolates and cut charcuterie.
Tip: The chocolate shop and the delicatessen are two separate premises of the same family, half a block apart.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. del Mercat stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapColmado Santo Domingo · Cort
Sobrassadas hanging from the ceiling on a street of grocers: island charcuterie, cheese and herb liqueur.
Tip: The Sobrassada de Mallorca PGI only covers island-made: look for the seal, there is plenty of mainland imitation.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: registro IGP · Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapJuguetes La Industrial · Cort
A 1929 toy shop with lead soldiers, wooden board games and display cases untouched since then.
Tip: It shuts at midday and on Saturday afternoons: in Palma the old shops still take a siesta.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapAlpargateria La Concepció · La Missió
Hand-stitched Mallorcan espardenyes, the hemp-soled country ones and the leather dress pair.
Tip: A genuine espardenya de pagès is unlined and bought half a size small: it gives after the second wear.
🚇 EMT bus to the passeig Mallorca - Instituts stop, 2 min on foot
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Show on mapSombrerería Casa Juliá · Sindicat
A hat shop that still measures your head with a conformateur: panamas, berets and the payés hat.
Tip: They measure your head and hand you the exact shape on paper: that template buys you hats for life.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 7 min on foot
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Show on mapBordados Valldemossa · Sant Miquel
Hand-embroidered linen and the robes de llengües, Mallorca's flame-pattern cloth in every colour.
Tip: The real flame cloth is woven in Santa Maria del Camí, off this map: here you buy it already made up.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapMerceria Nadal · Santa Catalina
A neighbourhood haberdashery of button drawers, threads and ribbons, open since before Santa Catalina was cool.
Tip: One of Palma's 93 shops carrying the official Emblemàtics Balears seal: look for the plaque on the door.
🚇 EMT bus to the Argentina - Sa Feixina 2 stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapEl Bazar del Libro · Canamunt
A second-hand bookshop with towers of used books, old maps and Mallorca postcards from the fifties.
Tip: The old Palma postcards cost under a euro and weigh nothing: the cheapest souvenir in the old town.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapCarnisseria Cas Caparrot · Canamunt
A Mallorcan butcher with black-pig sobrassada, botifarró and camaiot, all cut in front of you.
Tip: Black-pig sobrassada is the expensive, good one. Ask for it vacuum-packed to travel: it survives without a fridge.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça d'en Coll stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears · registro IGP
Show on mapSa Formatgeria · La Missió
A cheesemonger with raw-milk Mallorcan formatges, plus the best mainland and French cheeses.
Tip: Do not order Mahón cheese thinking it is local: Mahón-Menorca has a PDO and comes from Menorca, another island.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 5 min on foot
Featured in: registro DOP
Show on mapHerbolario Navarro · Cort
A herbalist stocking the dried Mallorcan herbs that go into hierbes, the island's own herb liqueur.
Tip: Hierbas de Mallorca has its own geographical indication: there are sweet, dry and mixed, and they are not alike.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça d'en Coll stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: registro IG · gov.uk
Show on mapJoieria Miró · Sindicat
A family Palma jeweller with silver pieces drawn from Mallorcan ceramics and siurell whistles.
Tip: It is on the Sindicat: the pedestrian street where the old shops survive, not the international brands.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 8 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapGolfos Casual Wear · Cort
A long-standing Palma casual-wear shop, with island brands and T-shirts designed on Mallorca.
Tip: Look for the siurell T-shirts: that is the souvenir Mallorcans buy, not the cathedral fridge magnet.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 1 min on foot
Featured in: Emblemàtics Balears
Show on mapRapha Clubhouse Mallorca · Sant Nicolau
A cycling clubhouse on Plaça del Rosari: technical kit, specialty coffee and group rides into the Tramuntana.
Tip: October and November are Mallorca's strong cycling season, not summer: 23°C and no heat.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de la Reina (Catedral) stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Estilo Palma · Open-Meteo
Show on mapLlibreria es Born · El Mercat
An independent bookshop with a big section of Mallorcan authors and island Catalan titles.
Tip: If you want to read about Mallorca and not a guidebook, ask for Llorenç Villalonga's Mort de dama: it is Palma.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 3 min on foot
Featured in: prensa local
Show on mapLiteranta · Sa Portella
A bookshop-café beside the Museum of Mallorca, with author events and tables among the shelves.
Tip: Bookshop and bar at once: you can sit and read with a coffee and nobody hurries you, even if you buy nothing.
🚇 EMT bus to the Església de Sant Francesc stop, 1 min on foot
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Show on mapMercat Ecològic · Plaça dels Patins · La Missió
A weekly organic market with DOP Mallorcan olive oil, farmers' vegetables and sourdough bread.
Tip: It is olive and new-oil season right now: DOP Oli de Mallorca starts being bottled in November.
🚇 metro M1 to Plaça d'Espanya (Estació Intermodal), 6 min on foot
Featured in: registro DOP · Ajuntament de Palma
Show on mapLa Perla · Cort
An old-town gift shop with Pòrtol siurell whistles, Mallorcan ceramics and Manacor pearls.
Tip: No seal certifies a siurell: the test is that it actually whistles and the paint is uneven.
🚇 EMT bus to the Plaça de Cort stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Ajuntament de Marratxí
Show on mapPeregrín Tuk · Patagonia · Sant Martí
Palma's mountain and outdoor shop, where locals kit up to hike the Tramuntana or hunt mushrooms.
Tip: The 2026 esclata-sangs season is running very late after the drought: blaves are up, esclata-sangs are not.
🚇 EMT bus to the pl. de Joan Carles I - Catedral stop, 2 min on foot
Featured in: Última Hora 25-10-2026
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