Palma today is a contemporary city which still preserves the settings of its long history. This island capital invites travellers to discover a wealth of heritage which has, for the most part, been respected and safeguarded. Roman Palma, the Madina Mayurqa of the Arabs, or the Catalan-Aragonese Ciutat de Mallorca we are about to discover in this book cannot be separated from what they really are: yet another paradigm of a metropolis in the countries around the Mediterranean, the Mare Nostrum. The sea, the light, the alleyways, the aromas, the nuances, the silence ?free pleasures which take on maximum value in an enclave such as this.
