Palma Aquarium

If you want to discover time and oceans, one of the best choices is to visit Palma Aquarium. This great place is close to the Palma Airport (5 minutes distance, only) and there are 3 bus lines which arrive in this place if you are located in the center of Palma de Mallorca.

Palma Aquarium is a place where you can meet the Mediteranean's most emblematic flora and fauna. You can experience the history of the old world and the adventure of conquering an immense, unknown and invincible sea. You can get to know tropical ecosystems, their magnificent colours and their inhabitants' most unusal behaviour during this part of your journey. There are also a combination of typical Mallorcan vegetation and marine exhibits, turtles, rays, Japanese Koi fish and even hammerhead sharks. You can also see a replica of a tropical rainforest that includes its own micro-climate to ensure perfect conditions for its exotic plants to flourish.

In Palma de Mallorca you can find Europe's deepest aquarium. This tank with its extraordinary proportions was designed to represent the Oceans' pelagic areas, deepest realms and magnitude. It holds 3,5 millions litres of salt water.

There are many facilities here like: a mini theatre, a snack bar, a play area for children, a buffet called Cafeteria Mediterra or a souvenir shop.

Tito's - Palma de Mallorca

Tito's discoteque, is a place of reference in Palma de Mallorca. Situated on Paseo Maritimo, it is a disco club designed in futuristic spaceship shape. The access is made using 2 panoramic elevators with a wide view toward Palma's bay.

There are shows and parties at Tito's 365 days per year. There you may meet famous DJ's all over the world like Francesco Farfa, Claudio Coccoluto, Hernan Cattaneo, Sebastian Ingrosso and others.

This club has 3 halls where is very easy to meet famous people from all the world. It is a cult place for island of Mallorca. Every night there are new costumes for the animators who are making this place very entertaining.

Price: 20€ for entrance and 2 free drinks.

Arab Baths

Right next the palace of La Almudaina in Palma de Mallorca there are The Arab Baths (Banys Àrabs). They are in the courtyard of the brollador and the gardens are surroounding the walled enclosure. They can be accessed via Ca'n Serra street corner with Convert of the Cathedral. There can be seen there lush gardens of Ca'n Fontirroig, home to Sardinian warblers, house sparrows, cacti, palm trees, and a wide range of flowers and ferns.

Actually there is a small two-roomed brick building that once housed the bath and was mostly used by the moors. This facility is, in fact, of Byzantine origin, dating back to the 11th century and possibly once part of the home of a Muslim nobleman. The bath room has a cupola with five oculi which let in dazzling light. The twelve columns holding up the small room were pillaged from an earlier Roman construction. The floor over the hypocaust has been worn away by people standing in the centre, mainly to photograph the entrance and the garden beyond it. The whole room is in a rather disreputable condition. The other room is a brick cube with a small model of the baths as they once were in the corner. Unfortunately one of the columns in this model has fallen over.

In the Middle Ages the waters of Palma Bay came up to the palace walls and it was possible to board a boat from the king's tower.

La Almudaina is currently used by the king as an official residence for state ceremonies and receptions during the summer.

Royal Palace Of La Almudaina

This royal castle located in Majorca's capital has its earliest origins in megalithic settlements. It became a Roman castrum, the residence of Muslim Walis and later that of the Christian kings or their representatives. It has alaways been the seat of political power on the island owing to its privileged location overlooking the bay and city of Palma.

The castle, built during the caliphal period, was captured by James I of Aragon when he conquested the island in 1229. He remodelled the following year to make it the seat of the prosperous kingdom of Majorca, which also included Rousillon.

The access to the palace is through Porta Major in the facade opposite the Cathedral, which leads to the main courtyard or parade ground. On the left of it is the Tinell or Sala Major, a large hall built at the begining of the 14th century, and opposite stands St Anne's Chapel. The wqestern side of the Tinell leads into the Palau del Senyor Rei (King's Palace), which occupies a large, rectangular tower with three floors. Behind the Chapel is the courtyard of the "brollador" (water spout), on whose western side is located the Palau de la Senyora Regina (Queen's Palace), which extends across the whole of the facade that looks onto the Hort del Rei (King's Garden) and Rambla.

Palma de Mallorca - Son Sant Juan Airport

In Palma de Mallorca it is the 3rd biggest airport in Spain. This is close to Can Pastilla village an is also known as Aeropuerto de Son Sant Juan. The only 2 airports which are bigger than this are Madrid and Barcelona. The numbers are quite impresive: 12.000 passengers every hour (21,1 million passengers every year) use this gate to one of the most popular holiday destination in Europe.

But this is not all, this airport is planed to become even larger. It will handle 32 million passengers in 2011 and 38 million in 2015. This is a performance taking into account this airport became used for the first time in 1920, and reached 1 million passengers in 1962. 

The most known air lines who use this airport are Air Europa (from Spain) and Air Berlin (from Germany). 

This airport has an area of 6,3 km² (2.4 sq mi). That means you can easily get lost. There very common the situations when people lose planes because of numerous ways and terminals existing there. Anyhow it has a very friendly personal and the architecture is really nice and warm. If you intend to visit Palma de Mallorca, go now, there is nothing to worry about!