Posidònia: Juan Carlos Nadal Turns Seagrass Into Art
Walk through Palma’s old town and you might miss it. A narrow gap between weathered stone facades leads toward Carrer de l’Almudaina. But slow down. Look through the wide portal of Ca n’Oleo, and something stops you in your tracks. Beyond the shadowy entrance, the courtyard opens into a flood of light. Right in the center sits a sculpture glowing in an electric shade of grass green: Posidònia by Juan Carlos Nadal. Visitors who weren’t even looking for art find themselves drawn in anyway. They…
Bilbao: The City That Reinvented Itself, and Why You Should Go Now
Ask anyone about Bilbao and watch what happens. One person lights up about the Guggenheim. Another raves about the pintxos, those jewel-like bites of bread and topping that line every bar counter in the old city. Someone else mentions the cooler Basque temperatures, a welcome contrast to the scorching Spanish summer. And yet another will tell you about the bridges, those extraordinary steel and stone arcs that stitch together the banks of the Nervión River like sentences in a story still being…
Restaurants on Mallorca with a View: The Top 15 Vistas
The first bite is with the eye. That’s true for what’s on your plate. But it’s just as true for the atmosphere around you. Some restaurants on the island offer something that no dish alone can deliver. A sweeping view of the Mediterranean, the…
Raixa: Mallorca’s Beautiful Secret
White clouds drift across a deep blue sky and mirror themselves in the still green water of a grand reflecting pond. Cypress trees stand like sentinels along stone terraces that climb, step by step, toward the mountains. And somewhere between…
Mesón Ca’n Pedro: The Smoke Signals of Génova
Anyone heading up to Génova for dinner knows the drill. A line forms before the door. First, the wait. Then, the reveal. Because once you step inside Mesón Ca’n Pedro, the sheer scale of the place hits you. Hams hang from the ceiling in long…
One Day in Inca: Where Mallorca Gets Real
When people think of Inca, they think of shoes. And fair enough. For much of the 20th century the town in the heart of the island was one of Spain’s most important footwear manufacturing centers. Some of the world’s most recognizable shoe…
Finca Son Real: A Walk Through History
While vacationers splash in the turquoise shallows at Can Picafort, a few kilometers down the coast something entirely different waits. A narrow headland pushes out into the sea, and on it, small piles of stones and shallow depressions in the…
Katharina Grosse: Arrels at La Llotja
You step through the heavy wooden doors and stop. The light inside La Llotja falls differently today. The six spiralling columns still twist upward toward the vaulted ceiling, just as they have for nearly six centuries. But something has…