I like how with this nightview you can see all the reflections in the water. The big building is the cathedral of the city Palma de Mallorca. According to Elaine, it sits right by the water so it can be seen from the beach.
The full name of the city is Palma de Mallorca, but it often gets shortened to just Palma. It is the major port on the island, as well as the capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. These Balearic Islands (an archipelago just east of the peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea) form a province of Spain. The 4 main islands are Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. The two main languages are Catalan and Castilian Spanish.
Palma was founded (together with Pollentia on the other side of the island) as a Roman camp where there used to be a Talaiotic settlement, and saw several Vandal sackings, was reconquered by the Byzantine, colonized by the Moors and finally incorporated under the Crown of Aragon by James I.
Now the 4 big islands are popular tourist attractions, but there are a lot more very small islands surrounding these bigger ones. The huge rise in tourism though has equally brought a rise in immigration. The number of visitors grew from 500,000 in 1960 to more than 19,200,000 in 2001 (not counting the 1.5 million that came by boat rather than plane).
One of the biggest factors for tourism is the nice temperatures year round: on average 16C (60F) in winter to 29C (85F) in summer.
Next to the obvious attraction of the beach, some of the main sights are of course the cathedral, the Placa d'Espanya, the Old City and the Banys Arabs (Arabian Baths) Pin It
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