Many people treat Palma as a stopover. They land, spend a night somewhere near the old town, do the cathedral, and leave for wherever they actually booked the trip around the island. Having now watched this happen many times, Privadia, which books private villas for guests in Mallorca, and has done so for years, would gently suggest that’s the wrong approach. The city itself is worth your time, and the best way to experience it is from a base outside it, coming in for the day rather than sleeping inside the noise.

The food scene is genuinely serious. The architecture is stranger and more layered than photographs suggest. The old town has corners most visitors never find because they’re walking too fast. A well-spent day covers most of what matters.

The Cathedral: Go there first, but not the way everyone does

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