Nit de l’Art 2026: Thirty Years And Counting
Tonight the old town of Palma breathes differently. Doors are wide open, light spills onto cobblestones, and strangers strike up conversations in three or four languages within the same five minutes. That’s the pulse of Nit de l’Art 2026. This year, it carries extra weight since Palma’s popular art night celebrates its 30th anniversary. Sixteen member galleries of Art Palma Contemporani (APC) are open together from 6 to 11 p.m. Joined by museums, foundations, hotels and other collaborating…
Paella on Mallorca: 10 Restaurants You Should Know
Paella remains one of Spain’s most iconic dishes. On Mallorca, it has taken on a distinctly Mediterranean identity of its own. Expect just-caught seafood, farm-raised chicken, smoky sobrassada, and occasionally a splash of squid ink turning the rice jet black. Originally, though, paella was a humble affair, made from whatever meat or vegetable happened to be on hand and simmered slowly with rice, olive oil, and saffron over an open flame. Today, fideuá keeps that same spirit alive in a…
Museu Marítim de Mallorca: Stories from the Mediterranean
For most of us today, the sea is a place we long for. A backdrop for holidays, a horizon to gaze at, a reason to slow down. For the people of Mallorca, though, that longing is a fairly recent invention. Not so long ago, life by the sea meant…
Seaview Restaurants on Mallorca: 12 Tables with a View
Some meals stay with you because of what happened around the plate, not just on it. Mallorca has no shortage of restaurants that pair the food with a proper backdrop, and the range is wider than most people expect. Barefoot chiringuitos in the…
Museo Sa Bassa Blanca: Where Art Meets Nature
This is not the kind of place you simply pass on your way to somewhere else. In fact, the road gets narrower with every kilometer. Past Alcúdia, past the last roundabout, the asphalt eventually gives way to a dirt track winding through pine…
Mirador de ses Barques: A Table with a View
High above Port de Sóller, where the road bends sharply and the valley finally opens up, sits Mirador de ses Barques. It’s one of those spots that hikers and cyclists pass through almost by habit, a natural pause on the way up or down the…
Mallorca Puzzles: Where Curious Minds Come to Play
“Try this one“, within seconds, visitors at Mallorca Puzzles are twisting wooden cubes, trying to separate interlocked metal pieces, or turning intricate mechanisms over in their hands. Almost without noticing, they slip into a world of brain…
Biblio Jardí: Palma’s Reading Garden Returns With a Fresh New Look
Right at the upper end of La Rambla, past the flower stalls and the shade of tall plane trees, a quiet garden waits behind a large stone gate. From June through September, Biblio Jardí, the reading garden of Palma’s Biblioteca de Cultura…