{"id":16,"date":"2009-07-28T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-01-21T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T11:07:52","slug":"majorca-%e2%80%93-interesting-and-historic-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/majorca-%e2%80%93-interesting-and-historic-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Majorca \u2013 Interesting and Historic Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday island of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/majorca-guide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Majorca<\/a> in the Balearic Islands is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Spain. The large majority of holidaymakers head for the well known beach resorts and may be missing out on some interesting and lesser known attractions that would add to the enjoyment of their visit. The best prehistoric site on Majorca is located 5 kilometres inland from Cala Pi, this Talaiotic site known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/capocorb-vell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capocorb Vell<\/a> takes the form of an ancient village, some 3,000 years old. South of Algaida is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/puig-de-randa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puig de Randa<\/a>, site of an ancient monastery founded by Ram\u00f3n Llull a famous resident of Majorca, it was founded in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century. Off the south coast of Majorca about 18 km off Colonia Sant Jordi, you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/cabrera-island-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cabrera Island<\/a>, now a protected Natural Park, it boasts the famous \u201cBlue Grotto\u201d cavern and some rare species of flora and fauna. Close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/colonia-sant-jordi-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colonia Sant Jordi<\/a> on the Majorcan mainland is a small town known as Ses Salines, significant since Roman times for the production of salt, which was extracted from local marshes. East of the capital Palma de Mallorca, is the hub of the Majorcan shoe making industry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/llucmajor-map.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Llucmajor<\/a>, which was also the scene of a bloody battle between two Spanish kings, resulting in the death of Jaime III and the end of the Kingdom of Majorca. This is the end of a short journey to just some of Majorca\u2019s interesting places to visit, so if you are looking for something a little more than lazing on the beach, lapping up the fabulous Majorca weather, then the places listed above may be just right for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday island of Majorca in the Balearic Islands is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Spain. The large majority of holidaymakers head for the well known beach resorts and may be missing out on some interesting and lesser known attractions that would add to the enjoyment of their visit. The best prehistoric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,18,7],"tags":[1089,37,36,35,33,34,1084],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}