Mallorca Rutes: Palma for Android

11 things about Mallorca Rutes: Palma

1. Today, Palma is a modern and future-minded, open, diverse, complex, dynamic and changing city, but at the same time is also a town with a strong personality, with a heritage and a tradition that prides itself on maintaining.

2. The Mallorca Rutes guide: Palma aims to bring to our users, whether resident or visitor, basic information on monuments and cultural attractions of the city.

3. The city's history is rich, complex, diverse, and dates back in time to the antiquity to find witnesses of the old customs in the streets and buildings in a great combination of tradition and modernity.

4. With King James I, the same name was used to name the city and the island, but to differentiate them, island or kingdom were used to precede this words according to each intention.

5. When the Roman Quintus Caecilius Metellus founded the city (123 BC), called it Palma.

6. We hope that this project led by Ibitec and Mallorca Rutes with the collaboration of the city council, it is useful to further enjoy your visit to our city.

7. During the Islamic period the city was called Madina Mayurqa (Palma de Mallorca), and the island, Mayurqa.

8. Also officially in the nineteenth century, the provincial division of Spain, was transformed in “Palma de Mallorca”; since 1998 the official name returned to Palma.

9. In this version, we can find information concerning the highlights of the ancient walls of the city.

10. With the Decree of Nueva Planta (1715) the Roman name was officially recovered (already raised by scholars and historians of the seventeenth century).

11. That is way from the thirteenth century to the eighteenth, many historical references are made with the term “Palma de Mallorca City”.