Palma de Mallorca in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Palma de Mallorca covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Palma de Mallorca rewards a detour.

The Palma de Mallorca route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 1.4 km as the crow flies, from La Llotja to Plaça Major. ≈ 1.4 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. La Llotja: A Gothic merchants' exchange built by Guillem Sagrera between 1426 and 1447, its hall roofed by six slender spiral columns that branch into the vaults like stone palm trees. 0.3 km to the next stop
2. Royal Palace of La Almudaina: Facing the cathedral on the sea wall, La Almudaina began as an Arab fortress and became the royal palace of the Kings of Majorca; today it is a royal residence run by the Spanish state. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Palma Cathedral (La Seu): The Gothic cathedral of Santa Maria, called La Seu, stands on Palma's sea wall where the city's great mosque once rose, its golden stone mirrored in the Parc de la Mar lake below. 0.2 km to the next stop
4. Parc de la Mar: A saltwater lake laid out below the cathedral in 1984 so that La Seu keeps its reflection, standing in for the sea that once reached the city walls before the motorway was built. 0.2 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Arab Baths (Banys Àrabs): A small domed bath-house hidden in a garden of the old town, one of the few surviving pieces of Muslim Madina Mayurqa, with a brick dome carried on twelve reused columns. 0.3 km to the next stop
2. Basilica of Sant Francesc: A great Gothic Franciscan church begun in 1281, holding the tomb of the Mallorcan thinker Ramon Llull and one of the loveliest cloisters in Spain, just east of the cathedral. 0.3 km to the next stop
3. Plaça Major: A rectangular arcaded square in the heart of the old town, built on the site of the former Inquisition seat, now a pedestrian stage for cafes, market stalls and street performers.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 4.4 km as the crow flies, from Mercat de l'Olivar to Fundació Miró Mallorca. ≈ 4.4 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Mercat de l'Olivar: Palma's largest covered food market, opened in 1951 near Placa d'Espanya, with more than a hundred stalls of fish, meat, fruit, cheese and Mallorcan sobrassada under one busy roof. 0.4 km to the next stop
2. Gran Hotel (CaixaForum Palma): The building that brought Modernisme to Mallorca: Domenech i Montaner's lavish 1903 Gran Hotel, with its ceramic-and-ironwork facade, now the CaixaForum Palma cultural centre. 0.4 km to the next stop
3. Passeig des Born: Palma's great tree-lined promenade, laid out on the buried bed of a stream that once flooded the city, and for centuries the stage for its parades, markets and evening strolls. 0.4 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani: Palma's contemporary art museum, opened in 2004 inside the Renaissance Sant Pere bastion, pairs a modern concrete-and-glass building with the old city walls and a rooftop view over the harbour. 2 km to the next stop
2. Bellver Castle: A rare circular Gothic castle on a wooded hill west of the city, built for King James II around 1300, ringed by round towers and now home to Palma's history museum, with huge bay views. 1.2 km to the next stop
3. Fundació Miró Mallorca: The studios and gardens where Joan Miro worked for the last decades of his life, kept as a museum on Palma's western edge, with his famous Sert studio left much as he left it.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Where the route eats

Food and market stops on the Palma de Mallorca tour, each with its own story in the app:

• Mercat de l'Olivar: Palma's largest covered food market, opened in 1951 near Placa d'Espanya, with more than a hundred stalls of fish, meat, fruit, cheese and Mallorcan sobrassada under one busy roof.

Updated: October 10, 2026

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