Palma de Mallorca

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Introduction

Arab Baths in Palma

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Palma de Mallorca is the capital of the autonomous region of the Balearic Islands and is located on the island of Mallorca. It has about 425,000 inhabitants, though the urban area is a little larger and has well over half a million people living there.

Neighbourhoods

Sights and Activities

• La Seu Cathedral, built on the place where there used to be a mosque.
• The old city, with its narrows streets, almost resembling an Arab medina.
• Arab Baths, remnants of the Moorish past.
• Belver Castle - a round castle near Palma de Malorca with great views.

Events and Festivals

Weather

Palma de Mallorca has a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry and sunny summers and mild but wetter winters. Temperatures during summer (June - September) are between 27 and 31 degrees Celsius while nights are balmy at 18 degrees. Winters last from December to February, when it's still a welcome 15 degrees Celsius during the day but nights average a chilly 4 degrees. This is also the time when most of the rain falls and occasionally even here in Palma snow is possible (usually only in the mountainous inland of the island though).

Getting There

By Plane

Palma de Mallorca Airport (IATA: PMI, ICAO: LEPA), located 15 minutes' drive from the city, is the main airport in Mallorca. After Madrid and Barcelona this is the third busiest airport in the country and one of the busiest in Europe during the summer season.
Numerous airlines serve the island, including several budget airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair.
There are dozens of destinations, mainly in the north and west of Europe, as well as places closer by in the south.
Ryanair has flights to Alicante, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bremen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Frankfurt-Hahn, Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Lübeck, Madrid, Reus (near Barcelona, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta and Weeze (near Düsseldorf).
Air Berlin is another big one serving the island with destinations like Almería, Amsterdam, Asturias, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bilbao, Bremen, Ciudad Real, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Faro, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Munich, Murcia, Nuremberg, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Stuttgart, Valencia andZürich.
Thomson Airways, Thomas Cook Airlines, TUIfly, Easyjet and Condor other big airlines, mainly serving the UK, Germany and Spain but some other destinations as well.

By Train

There are several train routes. One travels several times daily between Palma de Mallorca and Soller on the northwest coast. Check Sollernet for more information about the train and the town.
Other trains go inland to Inca. A third train connects Inca with Sa Pobla and Manacor.

By Car

By Bus

By Boat

Palma de Mallorca

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Domestic
Several ferry operators have connections to Palma de Mallorca from mainland Spain. Acciona Trasmediterránea has boats to and from Alicante for example. Other ferry operators include Balearia between Barcelona, Valencia and Denia and Mallorca. Iscomar offers roughly the same connections as well.
Most of the ferries have connections to the other Balearic Islands as well, like Ibiza and smaller Menorca.
France

• Trasmediterranea between Marseille and Palma de Mallorca.

Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

The metro line consists of nine stations and only operates since 2007. Trains run daily from 6:15am to 11pm, with a 15 minute service during the day, reduced to 30 minutes during the late and early hours and on Sundays. The metro trains starts from Palma Estació Intermodal.

By Foot

By Bike

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Sleep

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Work

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Internet

Phone

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