Av. Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga

Streets - Outskirts | Palma de Mallorca

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.