Museos y monumentos
Culture & Monuments
Guide to culture and monuments in Mallorca: castles and historic buildings, museums and art collections, archaeological sites and places of history and tradition.
Culture and monuments in Mallorca
Monuments, museums and archaeological sites across the island, with links to their official website and map location.
Can Balaguer
Palma · Art & museums
Historic town house in central Palma, now a municipal cultural venue. It preserves period rooms and hosts temporary exhibitions and public activities.
Can Prunera Museu Modernista
Sóller · Art & museums
Early twentieth-century Art Nouveau house in the centre of Sóller. It keeps its period furnishings and displays a collection of modern and contemporary art.
CaixaForum Palma
Palma · Art & museums
Cultural centre housed in the former Gran Hotel, an Art Nouveau landmark in Palma. It runs temporary exhibitions and cultural activities throughout the year.
Capocorb Vell
Llucmajor · Archaeology
Talayotic settlement on Mallorca's southern coast and one of the island's largest prehistoric sites, with surviving talayots and stone dwellings.
Cartoixa de Valldemossa
Valldemossa · Monuments
Former charterhouse in the heart of Valldemossa, famous for the stay of Chopin and George Sand. It includes monastic cells, an old pharmacy, a church and gardens.
Castell de Bellver
Palma · Monuments
Circular Gothic castle built in the fourteenth century on a wooded hill above Palma. It houses the city history museum and offers views over the bay.
Castell de Capdepera
Capdepera · Monuments
Medieval walled enclosure above the village of Capdepera, in the east of the island. Visitors can walk the ramparts and see the Gothic chapel inside.
Catedral de Mallorca (La Seu)
Palma · Monuments
Great seafront Gothic cathedral and symbol of Palma, with its main rose window and the interventions by Gaudí and Miquel Barceló. The visit includes the cathedral museum, with silverware, vestments and sacred art.
Ciudad romana de Pollentia
Alcúdia · Archaeology
Site of the Roman city founded in the second century BC in what is now Alcúdia. It preserves the forum, the Sa Portella residential quarter and the Roman theatre.
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani
Palma · Art & museums
Museum of modern and contemporary art built into the Renaissance bastion of Sant Pere in Palma. It combines its own collection, temporary shows and terraces over the bay.
Fundació Miró Mallorca
Palma · Art & museums
Centre devoted to Joan Miró in Cala Major, with the studios where the artist worked and Rafael Moneo's building. It shows works, sketches and materials from his creative process.
Fundación Bartolomé March
Palma · Art & museums
Palace in Palma's old town with an open-air sculpture garden, a historic library and an eighteenth-century Neapolitan nativity scene.
Museu d'Art Sacre de Mallorca
Palma · Art & museums
Diocesan museum devoted to the island's religious heritage, with paintings, sculpture and silverware from Mallorcan churches and convents.
Museu del Calçat i de la Indústria
Inca · History & traditions
Museum in Inca devoted to the local shoemaking tradition and the area's industrial history, with machinery, tools and pieces from the old workshops.
Museu Etnològic de Muro
Muro · History & traditions
Ethnological section of the Museu de Mallorca, set in a manor house in Muro. It displays household tools, traditional trades and objects of rural Mallorcan life.
Museu d'Història de Manacor
Manacor · Archaeology
Museum housed in the Torre dels Enagistes, bringing together archaeological finds from the region, from Talayotic prehistory to Roman and Islamic times.
Museu de Mallorca
Palma · History & traditions
The island's main museum, in the Ca la Gran Cristiana house in Palma. It traces the history of Mallorca through archaeological and fine arts collections.
Museu Arqueològic de Son Fornés
Montuïri · Archaeology
Museum in Montuïri devoted to the Talayotic site of Son Fornés. It explains prehistoric life on the island through material from the excavations.
Museu Sa Bassa Blanca
Alcúdia · Art & museums
Museum of the Yannick and Ben Jakober Foundation in the hills of Alcúdia. It combines a sculpture park, gardens and an unusual collection of child portraits.
Museo Histórico Militar de San Carlos
Palma · History & traditions
Museum set in the Sant Carles fortress beside Palma's harbour. It presents weapons, uniforms and documents on the military history of the Balearic Islands.
Necrópolis de Son Real
Santa Margalida · Archaeology
Prehistoric seaside cemetery on the public estate of Son Real. Its stone tombs are reached along a coastal walk from Can Picafort.
Palacio Real de la Almudaina
Palma · Monuments
Former Islamic fortress turned royal residence, facing Palma Cathedral. Managed by Patrimonio Nacional, it preserves Gothic halls, a chapel and gardens.
Raixa
Bunyola · Monuments
Historic country estate in the Serra de Tramuntana, with a manor house and Italian-inspired terraced gardens on the hillside. It is publicly owned by the Consell de Mallorca and has an interpretation centre for the mountain range.
Sa Llotja
Palma · Monuments
Fifteenth-century merchants' exchange and a masterpiece of Mallorcan civil Gothic by Guillem Sagrera. Its great hall with spiral columns now hosts exhibitions.
Santuario de Lluc
Escorca · History & traditions
Mallorca's main pilgrimage site, in the heart of the Serra de Tramuntana. It brings together the basilica with the Mare de Déu de Lluc, a museum, a botanical garden and the Blauets boys' choir.
Poblado talayótico de Ses Païsses
Artà · Archaeology
Prehistoric settlement surrounded by holm oaks on the edge of Artà, notable for its cyclopean wall, monumental gateway and central talayot.
Check official information: opening times, availability and tickets may change, so always confirm them on each site's official website.