Antonio Maura Avenue is an avenue located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, capital of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is named after Antonio Maura, a lawyer born in the city who served as president of the Council of Ministers repeatedly between 1903 and 1922. The avenue is located in the Central District and delimits the neighborhoods of La Lonja-Borne and La Seu. It extends to the Muelle Viejo, where it connects with the Paseo Sagrera, the Avenida de Gabriel Roca or the Autovía de Levante, from the Plaza de la Reina, where other main roads of the city center are born, such as the Paseo del Borne or the Calle Conquistador. It is not a very long road, with a total length of 350 meters. It is home to one of the busiest green areas in Palma, the Jardines del Huerto del Rey, built on the site of an old theater - the Teatro Lírico - and located between the cathedral and the avenue. On the sidewalk opposite the gardens are several cafes and shops. The avenue also has a subway parking lot, inaugurated in 2004. During its construction, several ruins from the Roman Palma were found, dating from the first century BC. Their discovery was not without controversy, as both the city council and the Island Council of Mallorca were in favor of continuing with the works and destroying the site, which was later restored.
Es Jonquet is an old fishermen's neighborhood composed of old low houses, narrow but lively streets where you can still breathe the quiet and relaxed atmosphere of the neighborhoods of yesteryear. The walk through the neighborhood will take us back to another era, between humble houses of Mediterranean style colors, narrow cobbled streets and crowning the whole architectural ensemble the large mills dominating the city. These mills date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, although over the centuries they have been on the verge of disappearing on several occasions to build housing developments. Today we can still see 5 mills standing, 3 of which are in a rather deteriorated state, but there were once seven flour windmills, located on a natural slope and facing the sea.
Brilliant old bull ring. empty but atmospheric. definitely worth a visit. free to get in.
Teatre Principal dates from the nineteenth century and which boasts a new image after 6 years of reforms: the structure of the building has been reinforced, all the service infrastructures and accesses have been renovated and the theatre has been equipped with state-of-the-art technology. The stage, for example, has grown from 14 to 23 metes, which will allow practically all kinds of performances to be held. In addition, as a historic building, special care has been made to restore Teatre Principal as it was when it first opened in 1932. The main hall has recovered its original structure, the amphitheatre has been eliminated, the loge system is now in use again, the so-called tertulia hall has been recovered and Felix Cagé's ceiling paintings have been restored.
The Church of San Nicolás is located in the street of Estrecho San Nicolás in Palma, on the island of Mallorca. The primitive building of the church of San Nicolas was a parish temple from 1302. Between 1309 and 1349 the new temple was built. At the end of the 15th century it was rebuilt due to the collapse of the nave. The main façade and the two portals date from this period. In 1681 another important reform was carried out that completely changed the apse, the cover and the decoration. The main doorway is ogival and is decorated with vegetal motifs and lateral pinnacles. The tympanum niche frames the image of Saint Nicholas, a 17th century work. The lateral doorway is also ogival but with a classic 18th century portal surmounted by a gutter. It has a single nave with five rectangular side chapels and a barrel vault roof with lunettes. Likewise, the chapels open under semicircular arches with molded pilasters and capitals with vegetal decoration. The bell tower has a hexagonal floor plan. The main altarpiece has a 15th century Gothic painting depicting St. Nicholas and is the work of Miguel de Alcañiz.
The church of Santa María la Mayor is Baroque in style and was built on an old site where the previous 13th century parish church was located. The current temple has a single nave ending in a semicircular apse. It is covered by a half barrel vault with stained glass windows. The bell tower (16th-17th centuries) is separated from the main façade and predates the construction of the present church. A characteristic feature is the neoclassical façade with the sculptural group of the Mare de Déu dels Àngels.
The church of San Pedro, a huge mass, at least for the dimensions of this town, which stands proudly in the middle of the Plaza de España. One looks at its neo-Gothic façade and the large central rose window, shining in the sun, seems to return your gaze. Not surprisingly, despite being unfinished, it is considered the great architectural work of the municipality, based on a project by Gaspar Bennàssar. It is dedicated to San Pedro, patron saint of Esporles, and its construction began in 1904, when its first stone kissed the ground of this square. Two decades later, its facade was already scratching the sky of the Tramontana mountain range, although unfinished, like the bell tower. Nevertheless, there it remains, surprising the unsuspecting passerby.
Situated at Plaça del rector Rubí, in the center of Manacor. Its construction began at the end of the 19th century and commended by priest Rubí to naval engineer José Barceló Runggaldier,who drew up the designs,and constructor Gaspar Bennàssar, who directed the works and built the bell-tower, the highest building in town known as Torre Rubí. Apparently this site was a cult place in the Islamic period. It is the place where, after the conquest of Jaume the First, the church of Santa Maria was situated. For this temple was very small, in the 14th century another one was built, which was finished in the 16th century, although the main doorway, originally situated on the side of the bell-tower, dates from the end of the 18th. This church was demolished to build the actual church. Some parts of the 18th century still remain, like the chapels of Sant Antoni and Sant Francesc, the towers of the ancient main façade at both sides of the bell-tower, part of the Mother of God sacristy and part of the old bell-tower. Built in negothic typology it has a latin-cross floor shaped one-hall basilica with chapels between the buttresses, with its transept arms in the fore section to the presbytery. There are ten aisles, five on every side, and in the chancel there is one chapel on every side and in the high altar. On every transept arm there are seven chapels, standing out the one consecrated to the Immaculate Virgin and the other to the Sant Crist of Manacor.
The chapel on the right and the first section of the vault of the main nave, where the coat of arms of Capdepera can be seen, are preserved from the primitive church. The temple had to preserve two images: that of San Juan and that of the Santo Cristo. The latter, made of orange wood and originally polychrome, is an early Gothic carving that was restored and reintegrated in its original place, where it remains today. The small church of San Juan was renovated in the 16th century and became the main nave of the present church. At the beginning of the 18th century the present side chapels were built. The baroque chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary (1703), corresponds to this time. After 1840, when the village church had already been built, religious ceremonies ceased to be celebrated. It was not until 1871 that the cult would be recovered, then already converted into a sanctuary of the Virgen de la Esperanza, whose feast day is celebrated on December 18.
In the mid-sixteenth century, around 1563, the bishop of Mallorca gave license to the inhabitants of Búger, to build a church, as many people died without sacraments due to the impossibility of moving to Campanet. This was the first church because, between 1694 and 1739, the present church of Búger was built, under the patron saint Sant Pere. The organ of the church of Sant Pere was built in the convent of Campos, in 1763, by the organ builder Pere Josep Bosch. In 1821, Gabriel Thomàs installed it, at first, in the choir of the church. In 1876, Julià Munar installed it in its present location. It consists of two keyboards; the main organ, with eleven stops, and the cadireta (lever), with four. The pedal has seven buttons attached to the manual.
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