Old medieval house which in 1606 passed into the hands of the Genovese jurist, J. Francesco Pavisi, who rebuilt it in the Manierist style, closer to the owner’s origins than the traditional city architecture. The traditional layout was maintained in the courtyard. Alterations were carried out in the 19th century when it was converted into a boarding house.
Congregation that settled in Sineu in 1864. The oratory or chapel of the convent is a neo-Gothic building that was inaugurated in 1892. It has a doorway with a pointed arch, with four plain archivolts that, like the jambs, are free of ornamentation, with the lower part made of stone. Above the portal, a line of impost gives way to a rose window, the stained glass windows of which form the M of the anagram of Mary. The crowning presents vegetal motifs, two lateral pinnacles and a belfry topped by a cross. To the right of the chapel, marked with the number 19, rises the facade of the convent itself; it has three floors and a lintel doorway. To the left of the chapel is the school building, which was inaugurated on June 19, 1927. The classrooms of the building, currently unoccupied, are distributed on three floors. The educational work of the nuns lasted almost to the present day, until their eight-grade school became a public school.
This house dates from the first half of the fourteenth century. It was owned, successively, by the Despuig, Belloto, Teatins, Alorda, and Weyler families. In 1911 Valerià Weyler Nicolau sold it to the Casa Bressol del Nin Jesús. Since 1990 it has been the headquarters of Asociación ARCA. The façade contains a memorial stone to General Weyler; on the first floor there are three ajimeces, with four smaller ajimeces on the upper floor. Inside there is a central courtyard, with segmental arches with the anagram of Jesus in the capitals.
The construction of this large temple lasted 25 years, from 1786 to 1811. The particularity is that if in many towns such a monumental construction entailed the elimination of the primitive oratory, in this case it was decided to preserve it and build the majestic building next to the historic one, on land with a cemetery. They also had to buy some houses. The old church is an architectural jewel, now known as the Chapel of Roser, with origins in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and added side (where the museum is located) in the sixteenth century, next to what was wall. The new temple was blessed by the rector Benet Vadell (a native of Petra), "the last direct relative of Beat Juníper Serra. Another curiosity of the new temple is that when it was blessed all its cost had already been collected, which shows the "interest" and "devotion" of the people.
It was designed by Eusebi Estada. It was inaugurated on 15-11-1910. It is one of the lighthouses of Sa Dragonera that replaced the old one of Na Pòpia, located on the highest peak of the island. Its appearance began with isolated flashes every 7 seconds, thanks to the use of the then new technology based on the use of mercury float buckets to produce a faster turn of the optics. This meant a drastic change in the beaconing of the island, since the old Na Popia lighthouse had a luminous appearance of flashes every 2 minutes. It was the first signal in the Balearic Islands that used a Chance lamp of incandescence of petroleum vapor, reason why some year later lighthouse keepers of other enclaves like Capdepera or Isla del Aire, had to spend some days in this lighthouse to learn the handling of these lamps, which ended up being the most used in the archipelago.
Typical 18th century courtyard with segmental arches and red marble Ionic columns, probably ordered by Fonticheli, an important Genovese family of merchants who bought the house in 1724. The staircase, originally with two flights of steps, was lengthened in the 19th century. The façade’s modernist aspect is the result of an alteration by the architect Jaume Alenyà in 1909.
The Parish Church of Santa Maria del Camino (Mallorca) is a temple erected in the eighteenth century on an old church built in the thirteenth century and modified several times, without ever having changed its location coinciding with the current one. The facade follows the tradition of Mallorcan baroque, of smooth furniture, forming a single body. It has two lateral pilasters with scales and topped by green hydrias, a central rose window and two smaller oculi. The front has a mixtilinear pattern, reminiscent of the shape of a copiña, and blue tile decoration.
The Town Hall building has a Baroque facade with Mannerist features (1649-1680), whose most outstanding feature is the long balcony with seven windows and the clock known as 'en Figuera'. Plaça de Cort, 1
Built in the 18th or beginning of the 19th century, apparently all that remains from the original house is the courtyard. A segmental arch separates the entrance, with its wooden ceiling, from a Catalan-style staircase that is now set in an enclosed space.
The public farmstead of Son Real was purchased by the Balearic Government in 2002 to preserve its natural and ethnological values and prehistoric sites. Son Real is located on a stretch of coast between Can Picafort and Son Serra de Marina in the municipality of Santa Margalida. A variety of elements on its 379 hectares make it an exceptional, unique value. Alongside traditional farming practices, which today are biological, autochthonous farm animals are also raised. A number of different buildings and digs have demonstrated the ethnological values the farmstead has boasted from medieval times until now. Furthermore, joining the above is the large number of archaeological remains from different cultures. The farmsteal's natural beauty includes almost 200 metres of shoreline on the virgin coast in this enclave in Mallorca. The Balearic Government has been effecting improvements in both the architecture as well as in the preparation of facilities for visitors' enjoyment, which includes an office with explanatory material to attend to the public. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, the Foundation for Sustainable Development in the Balearic Islands is in charge of managing this publically-owned property.
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