Palma hides a serious art city behind its cathedral. Miró's studios sit above the bay, Es Baluard fills a 16th-century bastion with Balearic modernism, and Gaudí left his fingerprints inside La Seu. Three days of galleries, theatres and living craft.
Miró's Son Abrines studios, kept as he left them in 1983, plus Rafael Moneo's alabaster-walled Moneo Building holding some 2,500 works. Open Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00, Sun 10:00–15:00, closed Mondays. Bus 46 from Plaça d'Espanya.
Contemporary art built into the Sant Pere bastion of Palma's Renaissance sea walls. Strong Balearic holdings — Miró, Barceló, Tàpies — plus rotating shows. Tue–Sat 10:00–20:00, Sun until 15:00. The rampart terrace overlooks the marina.
Lluís Domènech i Montaner's 1903 Gran Hotel, the building that launched Modernisme in Mallorca, now a free exhibition space. Permanent room of Hermen Anglada Camarasa's lush Mallorcan canvases upstairs. Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00.
A 13th-century Gothic basilica with one of the most beautiful cloisters in Spain — 115 slender columns in seven irregular sides. Ramon Llull's tomb sits in a side chapel. Mon–Sat 09:30–12:30 and 15:00–18:00.
A restored 17th-century townhouse on Carrer Sant Miquel holding 80-odd works of Spanish 20th-century avant-garde: Picasso, Dalí, Gris, Julio González, Saura. Mon–Fri 10:00–18:30, Sat 10:30–14:00. Small, dense, rarely crowded.
Palma's 1860 opera house on Plaça Weyler, home to the Temporada d'Òpera each spring and the Simfònica de les Illes Balears. The horseshoe auditorium seats about 900 under a painted ceiling. Box office opens midday.
The island's archaeology and fine-arts collection in a Gothic palace on Carrer de la Portella: Talaiotic bronzes, Islamic ceramics from Madina Mayurqa, and Mallorcan Gothic panel painting. Tue–Sat 10:00–18:00, Sun to 14:00.
An 18th-century Baroque merchant palace on the Born converted into Palma's municipal contemporary art centre, with three floors of free shows, a photography space and an artists' bookshop in the courtyard.
The Gordiola family have blown glass since 1719. The castle-like factory 20 km east of Palma lets you watch furnace work from a gallery, with a free upstairs museum of glass from Roman flasks to Venetian pieces. Mon–Sat 09:00–13:00.
The last workshop weaving roba de llengües — Mallorca's flame-patterned ikat cloth — on wooden looms since 1854. Free workshop visits show the tie-dyeing of warp threads before weaving. Mon–Fri, closed Saturday afternoons.
Palma's old fishermen's quarter, now street art, windmills on Es Jonquet and an 1920s iron market hall. The mercat runs Mon–Sat 07:00–15:00; stalls turn into tapas counters mid-morning and the surrounding streets fill with galleries.
The old potters' quarter east of Plaça Major, rebuilt into Palma's independent scene: small galleries, ceramic studios and the Bar Flexas crowd. Most spaces open late afternoon and stay open past 20:00.