So called because it was the place where the dead were buried in the past. Since the 14th century, the cattle market has been held every Wednesday. At the top of the market is the covered market, which was built in 1956 and was where the animals were weighed.
In August 1902 the walls of Palma de Mallorca began to be demolished. Months before, the city council had called a municipal competition to choose a project for urban remodeling, the winner of the competition was the engineer Bernardo Calvet with his project Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Calvet conceived a circular crown-shaped expansion around the old town, following the principles of the radioconcentric plan. The project had three main promenades: one to the south, on the land reclaimed from the sea; another on the San Magin torrent; and the third, the current avenues. Originally, the Avenidas were a public promenade, divided into different sectors by the streets that divided it (Manacor, Aragón, 31 de diciembre and General Riera). Each sidewalk was four meters wide and had an additional meter on the sides for trees, nine meters were set aside for each direction of traffic and in the center was a ten-meter wide promenade. In the 1970s, the increase in the number of vehicles and the population of the city led to the decision to dismantle the central promenade, increasing the number of traffic lanes from two to four in each direction. It was only maintained in the Avenida de Gabriel Alomar, where it functions as a parking lot; on Saturday mornings a flea market is held there, popularly known as Es baratillo. It is planned that in the future four of the lanes will be for the exclusive use of the streetcar, buses and the bicycle lane.
It is the main square of the municipality of Llucmajor, where we find first of all the town hall of the municipality and in addition to a series of bars and restaurants where we will be able to taste the typical gastronomy of the zone and of the own island of Majorca.
* Joan Miró Avenue is an avenue located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, capital of the Balearic Islands, in Spain. It is named after the famous painter Joan Miró, who lived and died in the city. * The avenue is located in the Poniente District and crosses the neighborhoods of Los Armadamos, El Terreno, Puertopí, Cala Mayor and San Agustín. It extends from Calle del Marqués de la Senia (next to the Paseo Marítimo) to the municipality of Calviá. * It has a total length of 5400 meters.
Open-air museum located next to the old town of Palma de Mallorca and an excellent opportunity to learn about Spanish architecture. In this open-air space there are 72 architectural examples distributed in 18 buildings, 15 streets and 12 squares on a scale of 1:2. They have been built with materials from the regions they represent. In this area of 24,000 m2 you can find a reduced version of the courtyard of the Myrtles of the Alhambra, the Cathedral of Burgos and the house of El Greco, in Toledo, among many others. All the reproductions of the monuments are in a harmonious set that recreates a medieval village completely surrounded by a wall. A good plan is to walk through it playing to identify the buildings and monuments, and then enjoy the rich gastronomy of some parts of Spain. The complex is completed with a Conference Center, a recreation of a Roman forum and an amphitheater with capacity for more than a thousand people.
Gabriel Roca Avenue, popularly known as Paseo Marítimo, is a promenade located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, capital of the Balearic Islands, in Spain. It is named after the engineer Gabriel Roca, head of works of the Port of Palma de Mallorca between 1940 and 1962, as well as being the main promoter of the construction of the promenade. The avenue is located in the south of the city and crosses the districts of Playa de Palma, Levante and Poniente, as well as the neighborhoods of Can Pere Antoni, Zona Portuaria, Es Jonquet, Son Armadams, El Terreno and Portopí. It has a total length of 5500 meters.
Construction Plaça d’Espanya (Spain Square) has gone by other names in the past, for instance, Plaça de la Constitució (Constitution Square) and Plaça de la República (Republic Square). It is located in the town centre, in front of the Town Hall, where most municipal services are performed from. In 2010 it was restored, following the parameters according to which it was originally laid out
Jaime III Avenue is located in the city of Palma de Mallorca, being one of its main commercial arteries. The avenue was the opening of a wide road in the old city, to connect it with the widening of the Poniente district. It has a rectilinear and uniform layout, with arcaded arches and homogeneous facades. It is one of the most active and exclusive shopping streets in Palma de Mallorca. In Concepción Street, a crossing of Jaime III Avenue in front of the Sa Nostra Culture Center, is located the fountain of the Holy Sepulchre, which preserves the neck of the tenth-century Arab fountain and a thirteenth-century temple. Its name honors Jaime III of Mallorca (1315 - 1349), king of Mallorca between 1324 and 1349.
This is Inca’s main shopping street, in whose many small shops you can find a wide variety of quality products. They range from traditional shops: haberdasheries, patisseries, chemists… to new shops selling fashion wear, accessories, perfumes and shoes, to cafés, etc. Architecturally too the street is very interesting because of the number of highly individual façades and buildings which reflect the town’s important architectural legacy. Other busy shopping streets with many shops of all kinds are…
The Avenida de Gabriel Roca, with its 5,500 meters, is popularly known as Paseo Marítimo. It runs along the stretch of the Bay of Palma that runs between the old Portopí Lighthouse at the west end and the Cathedral of Mallorca to the east. In the Passeig Marítim we find important monuments such as La Lonja, a Gothic marvel built by the architect Guillem Sagrera between 1426 and 1447 and completed by Guillem Vilasclar. The avenue is named after the engineer Gabriel Roca, who was head of works of the port of Palma between 1940 and 1962 and strongly promoted the construction of the road. In the Passeig Marítim also highlights the building of the Consolat de Mar (XVI century). XVI), current seat of the Balearic autonomous government; the Auditorium of Palma -where important artistic events are held-, bars with large terraces, restaurants, emblematic discotheques such as Tito's, stores, the Quarentena Park, the Mediterráneo building -where the cupletista Sara Montiel lived and, in the background, at the west end, we have the Club de Mar and the Portopí Lighthouse, the second oldest in Spain, behind the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña and the third oldest in the world, behind the previous one and the Lantern of Genoa. It was built in 1617
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