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Bellver Castle stands about three kilometres from the city centre of Palma, on a hill some 112 metres above sea level. It overlooks the city of Palma, its bay and a large part of southwest Majorca. Its construction began in 1300, commissioned by Jaume II, King of Majorca. Work on the building took nine years and the ornamentation was finished later. 70 permanently employed workmen, a large number of women and the king's slaves all worked on it. The castle was designed as a royal residence. All the three kings of Majorca stayed there for short periods of time: Jaume II, Sanç I and Jaume III. At the end of the 14th century, Joan I of Aragon and his wife Violant of Bar lived there for four months with their court, fleeing the plague in mainland Spain. After the Kingdom of Majorca's fall in 1343, Bellver castle was used as a prison in several occasions. Between 1802 and 1808, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Minister of the Treasury, Patronage and Justice in the reign of Carlos IV, was imprisoned in one of the rooms on the first floor. The castle also acted as a prison for numerous French officers and soldiers defeated in the Battle of Bailen in 1808. In 1814, General Lacy, leader of a failed liberal rebellion faced a firing squad there. In 1821, the castle was temporarily used as a mint. Its last period as a prison was during and after the Spanish Civil War, when up to 800 Republican prisoners were kept inside. The building is circular in lay-out with three semicircular buttressed towers, and a single tower some seven metres from the body of the castle. The construction is arranged around a central courtyard, on two levels, the ground floor with semicircular arches and flat roofs and the upper one with Gothic arches and the ribbed vault so typical of Gothic architecture. In 1931 the Government gave the building and the woods to Palma City Council who turned it into the Palma History Museum and the Despuig Collection of Classical Sculpture. In addition, the Palma Town council organises various cultural and leisure activities there.

Es Trenc is one of the best-known beaches on the island of Mallorca because of its Caribbean blue waters and bright white sand that extends over 2 kilometeres along the south of the island. Located between the popular beach resort town, Colonia San Jordi, the flat wetlands of Ses Salines, where some of the best salt in the Balearics is produced, and Sa Rapita, Es Trenc, which translates as 'ravine,' is a beach for nature lovers, who will appreciate the sense of remoteness, wild beauty, and heat. Es Trenc is considered to be one of the top 20 beaches on Mallorca.

One of the biggest shopping malls in Mallorca with shops, restaurants and entretainment

The Arxiu Capitular de Mallorca (ACM) is the Archive of the Cathedral of Majorca. Its mission is to assemble, preserve, catalogue and showcase the documented and bibliographical heritage that the Cathedral of Majorca has built up from its founding (in the 13TH century) down to the present day. It also meanwhile preserves document holdings and collections donated by individuals and organisations.