Exploring Palma, with its intoxicating mix of Moorish ... this building is a gothic architectural masterpiece in its own right. Do venture upstairs beyond the sumptuously dressed historic rooms ...

Commissioned by James II of Aragon in the 14th century, the rounded Bellver Castle reigns atop a wooded hillside just west of Palma and offers visitors a 360-degree view of the city and the bay.

The Palma Cathedral – or simply La Seu – started out as a mosque. But after the city fell to the French conqueror James I of Aragon, what would become centuries worth of work on the cathedral ...