The tower of Paraires, together with the tower of Señales or Portopí, are the only two examples of coastal towers and are located at the mouth of the port of Portopí, one of the ports of Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). Their function was signaling and defensive. The two towers closed the port with a chain. The tower has a square ground plan, flat roof and four blind walls with loopholes as openings. The roof is finished with battlements. The foundations are from Roman times, protected as a national monument (Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1876.

This house is of Gothic origin and has some interesting vestiges, such as the medieval ribbed squinch with heraldic motifs in the patio. According to the “Apeo” survey of 1818, it was then the property of the presbyter Joan Busquets. During the first third of the 20th century it was the seat of the local committee of the Radical Republican Party. In the 20th century it also belonged to the Fiol family. It has been the Sans Theatre since 1984.

This building is located under the sanctuary of Sant Salvador. Local youths attended school here from 1934 until the 70’s. The building stands as a unique entity. It has three floors and a basement. It is worth noting the contrast between the geometry of the volume and its asymmetrical openings. Access is located on the right side of the main facade. Currently, the building is host to the offices of the Education department, carrying out a number of adult-education related activities.

Can Sureda is a manor house dated from the 16th century, being restored during the following century. This three storey building with a trimmed and whitewashed facade has an asymmetric and scatty disposition of the apertures. Its impressive entrance, a stone round arch portal, is dated from the 16th century. The two balconies with iron rails, the cellar large window and the scupper on the corner of the building are also impressive and worth a look.

In 1576 this house was the property of the heirs of Pere Sampol. In 1685 it belonged to the heirs of the presbyter Josep Morales. In 1818 it was owned by Marià Fuster. Afterwards it came to be owned by the Escafí family. An entrance with a beam roof leads to the uncovered patio, by means of a semicircular arch; the stairs are on the left, and have a fine iron railing. The coach houses are at the back.

The house became the property of the Desclapers family in the 15th century. It was inherited by Francesc Rossinyol de Sagranada i Desclapers, who sold it to Bishop Bernat Nadal, who in turn made it the site of the Pureza de María Santísima girl’s school (founded in 1809 in calle de la Pau), and which was reorganised in 1870 by Gaietana Alberta Giménez, Mother Alberta.

Currently Can Dusai is an architects’ office. The doorway is a modern segmental arch; the entrande has a modern small-cobble floor and a beam roof with two transversal main beams. On the left there is a medievalstyle old semicircular arch. A diminished archway leads to the patio, with the stairs at the back.

Devesa of Ferrutx is found over the road of Colònia de Sant Pere, on the foot of Ferrutx hill. A large possessió that in 1302 was acquired by king Jaume II of Mallorca to use it as a devesa, a pastureland where it is possible to hunt. It was enlarged by king Sancho, who introduced foreign species such as deer and wild boar. This Royal Hunting Reserve disappeared during the same century and its central building became a possessió, where a defence tower was built during the 16th century. The tower, of circular floor plan, is divided in two storeys and a terrace. We can observe two machicolations on the facade. We enter the tower through the house attached to it. It is a one story house with two corridors and two longitudinal bays covered by a barrel vault. The entrance portal features a stilted arch on the intrados and a round arch on the extrados. Surrounding the complex there are other isolated premises like stables and troughs. Devesa of Ferrutx was sold to the painter Miquel Barceló and now hosts his studio.

This house was renovated in approximately 1725 by Juan Sureda i Villalonga, the first Marquis of Vivot, over a medieval structure. It became the Sureda family home from the 18th century and was previously home to the Villalonga family. The patio of this house is the result of a general reform directed by Jaime de Espinosa. The entrance floor is of compacted earth, columns with entasis and Corinthian capitals. The gallery features three arches. An arch with pilastres in the shape of a truncated inverted pyramid stands at the bottom of the staircase.

The complex of the road of the prisoners or soldiers is formed by two elements: the road leading to sa Tudossa hill and the remains of a labour camp. Republican soldiers were imprisoned after the Spanish Civil War (1941-1943) and condemned to hard labour, which consisted in the construction of the present road that communicates sa Tudossa and sa Talaia hills. We can still find the ruins of the camp next to the road.