Palma today is a contemporary city which still preserves the settings of its long history. This island capital invites travellers to discover a wealth of heritage which has, for the most part, been respected and safeguarded. Roman Palma, the Madina Mayurqa of the Arabs, or the Catalan-Aragonese Ciutat de Mallorca we are about to discover in this book cannot be separated from what they really are: yet another paradigm of a metropolis in the countries around the Mediterranean, the Mare Nostrum. The sea, the light, the alleyways, the aromas, the nuances, the silence -free pleasures which take on maximum value in an enclave such as this.