Pol·lèntia is the only Roman city that can presently be visited in Mallorca. It is also the best example of the Romanisation of the Balearic Islands, its ruins telling us of the pax romana times. Excavation work in Pol·lèntia began around 1920 and continues to this day. The part that is open to the public includes a small fragment of the wall, the ruins of three mansions and a street with an arcade. The area can be accessed via Sa Portella. Also worth a mention is its Roman theatre, the only still preserved in the Balearic Islands. It was built in the 1st Century and had a seating capacity of almost two thousand persons. Today a portion of the tiers and the stage can still be appreciated. An interesting complement to the visit is a trip to the Museu Monogràfic de Pol·lèntia, (Monographic Museum of Pol·lèntia) where valuable pieces found during the excavation works are on display.

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.

Palace dating from the XVIII century with a magnificent stairway and lovely gardens. Located in the township of Bunyola, this estate includes an ancient Mallorcan house boasting one of the loveliest gardens on the island. It was purchased by the Ministry of the Environment and the Council of Mallorca in 2002, and it was slated to be converted into a major international environmental centre. It is also a piece of island history, which spans a period between the 15th and 19th centuries. It's clear historical value led the government of the Balearic Islands to protect it by declaring it an Asset of Cultural Interest. Its gardens just beckon you to get lost with a great book in your hands, to retreat from the noise of the world for a spell just as the driving force behind the most important refurbishment of the home, Antoni Despuig i Dameto (1745-1813), must have done. Despuig turned the estate into a magnificent classical palace with an Italianate air whose ground floor houses an important art collection. The history of Raixa, nestled at the foot of the Sierra de Tramuntana (Tramuntana mountain range), dates back to the presence of the Muslims on Mallorca, who chose this site for founding their ARaixa farmstead because of its plentiful water and fertile lands. Next to it is another estate, Biniatzar, which is said to have been the exemplary olive-producing farmstead during the Islamic times. After the Catalans conquered the island in the 13th century, Raixa was passed among a series of owners, such as the Zaforteza-Tagamanent family, until it fell into the hands of the Despuig family in the 17th century.

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.

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.

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.

Symbol of the ancient splendor of the town: the palace was commissioned by the King of Mallorca Jaime II, in 1309. He had it built on a base of Islamic origin that was possibly the fortress of the emir Mubaxir, who died in 1114. Between 1319 and 1523 it was the residence of the veguer de fuera and, with the disappearance of the Kingdom of Mallorca, it suffered serious damages. In 1583, Philip II transferred it to the Conceptionist nuns and a major reform was carried out (especially intense in the seventeenth century) to adapt it to the conventual use. Not long ago, in 1987, the keep was renovated. The ensemble that has come down to us has elements of both a fortified palace and a strictly enclosed convent. It is a very heterogeneous ensemble and the church, of traditional typology, stands out.

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.

Formerly the residence of the Archduke Ludwig Salvatore of Austria. Lovely views from this old Mallorcan estate of the coastline, and 'sa Foradada' on the Tramuntana coast. Son Marroig in the municipality of Deià is another farmstead the a Archduke Luis Salvador purchased and he restored the old house, conserved the fortified sixteenth-century tower and added Italian-style extensions.

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