Santanyi is a small town located in the southeast of Mallorca, which has preserved its original Majorcan charm to this day. The Mediterranean beaches are only four kilometers away from the town center. The cityscape is characterized by medieval and modern buildings made of golden sea sandstone. The sandstone is obtained exclusively from quarries in the Santanyi area and gives the town a unique appearance. It forms very different contrasts compared to the other cities. Green palm leaves on the main square in front of the facades, the sandstone buildings and the blue sky make this place the perfect vacation destination.

The current Town Hall dates from 1941. The building was conceived during the Spanish Second Republic (1931–1939) but the Spanish Civil War delayed its construction. Once the war finished, the Falangist authorities sped up the project finally christening the complex and its attached square in 1941. This three-story symmetrical building features an internal courtyard which distributes the floor plan. The basement worked as prison, the first floor as office and the attic was the archive.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the first emigrants that had made their fortunes in the Americas returned to Artà. They were known as Indianos. The return of this new rich collective started a dispute: wealthy classes and newcomers competed to show their economic power through their properties. Indianos imported new building styles from the Americas and Na Batlessa is a good example. This early 20th century building features an independent volume placed on a small podium and surrounded by a balustrade. The main facade forms a big triangular pediment, boasting a beautiful stairway and a balcony on the main floor. The owner of Na Batlessa, Cristòfol Ferrer, donated the complex to the Town Hall in 1984. Thus, the building became a public space hosting a public library, a youth information office and an exhibition space. Na Batlessa also hosts the document bank of famous painter Miquel Barceló and Arta’s local theatre.

The present church of Calvià, dedicated to San Juan Bautista, replaces a church already documented in 1248 under the name of Sante Johannes de Caviano. It was, according to the preserved descriptions, a small medieval church, built on an old farmhouse, which was modified and expanded until, in the eighteenth century, it was decided to demolish it, in order to build a new building that would accommodate all the parishioners of the parish. The new church, whose construction began on July 25, 1867, was built on the foundations of the old one, which was almost completely destroyed, preserving some remains: a corner of the Sagrario tower, an access portal that went from the rectory to the interior of the temple, part of the bottom of a chapel and a crypt in front of the current chapel of San Sebastián. The church of Calvià, visible from almost all the town, is a historicist temple that combines neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic elements.

It was founded in 1607 at the request of Pedro Santandreu, guardian of the convent of San Francisco de Palma, born in Petra. In 1609 a small temple had already been built, whose space corresponds to the current Bethlehem chapel. Due to the good reception by the people, in 1657 the construction of a new temple was begun under the direction of the master Rafael Poquet, which was completed in 1677. Here, Fray Junípero Serra began his studies, in fact the names he gave to the missions he founded are related to most of the invocations of the chapels that the church houses as the city of Los Angeles or San Francisco. With the disentailment (1836) the Franciscan community was exclaustrated and the convent was divided into enclosures to be sold. In 1969, the Franciscans returned to the convent with smaller dimensions than before the confiscation. The church is of Renaissance style with a basilica floor plan with a single nave with barrel vault and six side chapels on each side that house baroque altarpieces made between the late seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century. The most outstanding altarpieces are the main altarpiece, the altarpiece of Santo Cristo, the altarpiece of the Virgin of the Angels and the altarpiece of San Francisco. The chapel of the Bethlehem stands out for containing figures of Gothic period (the angels) belonging to the old manger that was in the convent of Jesus de Palma. The pavement of the chapel is lower than the others and is covered by a barrel vault lowered as if it were a cave. The convent houses two rooms displaying antique furniture and liturgical objects, objects related to the life of Fray Junipero Serra and a series of glass paste paintings depicting passages from the life of Father Serra. The main façade located on the main street preserves a semicircular arched doorway and a coffered vault. On the sides there are two niches where the disappeared images of the Franciscan saints would be.

One of the most gratifying outings you can make from Alcúdia is the climb to the La Victòria hermitage and lookout point, either by car of by foot, around 445 above sea level. The hermitage, which boasts a Baroque style, was built in the 14th century and refurbished in around the 18th century. From it you can catch outstanding views of the two bays, Pollença and Alcúdia, the Cap Formentor and, on clear days, the island of Menorca. Atop La Talaia mountain, almost 450 metres above sea level, are the remains of the Alcúdia tower. This circular-shaped defence tower was built in the 16th century as part of the system of alert towers along Mallorca’s coastline to notify the authorities and the population of the arrival of any danger by sea, such as pirates. During the day, the towers used a system of smoke signals, while at night they used fire. This tower was also used to transmit messages to the city of Alcúdia by waving banners atop a pole.

The history of the Sant Bonaventura (Saint Bonaventura) convent begins in 1608, when the first group of Franciscans reached Llucmajor. The definitive convent complex was built throughout the 17th century, and it includes a church, a cloister, several auxiliary buildings and a vegetable garden. The church was blessed in 1656, and the church roof was finished in 1691. The internal spaces of the convent – cells, workshop, refectory, kitchen, library, chapterhouse, etc. – are arranged around the cloister, which was finished between 1690 and 1697. This cloister features the Baroque style of the Franciscans: a square shape with a double superimposed gallery with semicircular arches held up on quadrangular pilasters, and outer pillars topped by relief stone balls. The convent premises were occupied by the Franciscan order until the Mendizábal Disentailment (1836). From then until 1998, the complex was used as a Civil Guard barracks, the Justice of the Peace and a municipal slaughterhouse. As a result of these varied uses, the complex became architecturally distorted, so in 1999 its refurbishment was undertaken, reconverting it into a civic, social and cultural centre. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 2002. The murals, repeatedly whitewashed after the disentailment, were uncovered in 1999 by a group of historians from the University of the Balearic Islands. Restored today, they are an iconographic testimony of the history of the Franciscan order.

Sant Francesc street in Sineu is the home to the former Convent dels Mínims, founded in 1667. In 1722 it underwent a wholesale refurbishment, and the cloister was built then, in addition to other elements. In 1835 it fell into secular hands as the convent was disentailed. This building has housed the Sineu Town Hall since 1877. The main façade is two stories tall with a centrally-located Baroque doorway. On the ground floor, the windows are bell-shaped, while on the upper story they are quadrangular, with corbels and eaves. There are also a few tiles bearing pictorial motifs. The cloister is Baroque in style and has a quadrangular, slightly trapezoidal shape. The columns over plinths hold up flat arches, and the capitals have small Ionic-style flutes on the tops, while the lower parts have little wreaths with curious reliefs that alternatively portray the mitre and star of the coat-of-arms of Bishop Estela. In the middle is the lip of an octagonal cistern bearing the inscription Charitas, the slogan of the Minims, which dates from 1693.

A unique botanical garden with didactic facilities to teach visitors about the surrounding environment. Since 1989 BOTANICACTUS has been one of the most emblematic tourist destinations in the south of Mallorca, combining splendor, vigor and diversity in an environment of great natural wealth, making it the most representative botanical garden on the island and one of the most emblematic of its kind in the world. In it we find a great variety of native flora from many parts of the world, showing all its splendor and variety in an environment with an area of 150,000 m², bringing together more than 1,600 species and 15,000 specimens, with the backdrop of the largest lake of the Balearic Islands, about 10,000 m² located in the tropical zone, with aquatic plants, bamboo on its shores, which will transport you to the interior of a lost jungle.

The Cúber reservoir is an artificial water reservoir located on the slopes of Puig Major and Morro de Cúber. Together with the Gorg Blau reservoir, it is owned by the City Council of Palma and supplies water to the municipality and its surroundings. Its own water and water from the Gorg Blau (pumped, as it is at a lower level), is distributed in the municipalities of the Bay of Palma through the Almadrà stream. It receives its name due to its proximity to the possession of Cúber. Among others, also takes the name of this possession the peak that overlooks the reservoir: the morro de Cúber.