2. Palma de Majorca is a city that it was founded in 123 bc.
In Palma there were three different empiries like
Bizantines, Muslims and Romans, and the spanish
empire conquered the city, when it was dominated by the
muslim empire. James I was the person who conquered
the city of Madina Mayurca.
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4. Roman empire was loosely incorpored into the province of Tarraconises by 123 b.c. In
Majorca they founded two new cities called Palma, in the south of the island and
Pollentia in the northeast. In Pollentia there were the Roman port .
5. Though the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the
Muslim conquest is not well known (due to lack of documents), there is clear
evidence of Byzantine presence in the city
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7. Between 902 and 1229, the city was under Islamic control. The arrival of Moors in the
Balearic Islands occurred at the beginning of the 8th century. During this period, the
population developed an economy based on self-sufficiency and piracy, and even showed
evidence of a relative hierarchy.
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9. On December 31, 1229, after three months of siege, the city was
conquered by James I of Aragón and was renamed Palma de Mallorca.
The governing body was the University of the City and Kingdom of Majorca. After the
death of James I of Aragon, Palma was joint capital of the Kingdom of Majorca, together
with Perpignan
10. Palma is bordered by rocky inlets and
marinas on the south side, whilst many of the
tourist resorts are positioned towards the east
side of the city. Now some parts of Majorca
are very popular like Porto pi, Festival Park.
Some villages are vey important too, like
Soller, Valldemosa, Pollença.
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13. In Santa Ponça there is a very beautiful beach, next to
Burguer King and Mc Donald' s. There are a lot of pubs
for turist from Britain, Germany, Denmark, etc. It is a very
good place for holidays.
14. Sa calobra is the most beautiful beach
in Majorca. There aren' t pollution, and
the people go here for swim in a clean
water' t.
Some people go
Some people
go to Sa
calobra with
boat, because it
is fantastic stay
here in a boat.
15. Valldemosa is one of the most Inca is very big, it is considered the
popular villages in Majorca. It's second twon of the island. There
the same shops that you can find in
famos for its food, like Palma, it have a football team called
“empandas” and “ensaimadas”. Constancia. It isn' t next to the sea,
In valldemosa there a lot of it is next to Lloseta and Binisalem,
german tourists, because there that they are other villages of
aren't noise, there are silence. Majorca.
16. Here there are a lot of tourist from
Germany, because it is situated
beetween, famous pubs like
Capuccino, and next to a very famous
and expensive street Jaime III.
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18. In this street you can found shops like , Berskha, Stradivarius, Pull &
Bear, New Yorker, J&J. It is at 3 minutes of Plaza España and 1
minute Plaza Mayor. There are a church in the middle of the street
called San Miguel' s church and at 5 minutes of the church there is El
mercado del olivar.
19. Zara, El corte ingle,
Springfield, are the shops
situated in Avenidas, also
there are some importants
banks like La caixa,
Santander, Es credit.
20. In my opinion, I don't change never Majorca, because for mi is a
paradise, it' s a very good place for life. There are very beautiful
villages, some shops centers, a lot of natural beaches, nice people. All
is in Majorca, you can found all in my island. For tourist it' s very
beautiful Majorca, they come hear every year because it like them.
