Places to see in ( Mallorca - Spain ) Puig de Pollenca
Places to see in ( Mallorca - Spain ) Puig de Pollenca
The Puig de Maria, more formally known as ‘Santuari de la Mare de Déu del Puig’ is a small hill that overlooks the town of Pollenca in the North of Mallorca. The walk is fantastic for witnessing stunning views of Majorca's countryside and the local towns of Pollenca, Port de Pollenca and Alcudia, not to mention it is a great workout for the legs. It takes around 40-45 minutes to slowly saunter to the top where there is a lovely monastery and restaurant to stay for a meal or a quick drinks stop.
The Puig de Maria is a modest 330m high, the road leading up the Puig is 2.2km long and winds up through the trees giving both shade from the sun and glimpses of the scenic views below. The route takes you up a road for most of it but the last part has no vehicle access and is a more rocky path. There aren't any parking facilities here so what most visitors do is leave their car in Pollensa, in the car park by the Repsol garage which you'll see just by the main road.
Upon reaching the summit of the Puig de Maria, you are greeted with traditional sandstone buildings housing a monastery and chapel. In 1348 the chapel was constructed and a monastery was added to this 14 years later, where nuns from the local area stayed. The nuns lived and worshiped at the monastery until 1576 when they were ordered to leave and moved to Palma de Mallorca, the islands capital. The monastery still retains traditional decor with tiled floors and small windows so to not let in too much light or heat. There is a magnificent dining room within the monastery as well as a small chapel. The Santuari de la Mare de Déu del Puig is one of several sanctuaries on Mallorca - you can read about the others in our Churches & Sanctuaries page.
Once at the top of the Puig, if you are feeling a little peckish, there is a small restaurant which serves simple, traditional Mallorquian cuisine. Dishes such as ‘Pa amb Oli’ - bread with serrano ham, cheese, tomato and oil; ‘Frit’ - finely diced vegetables with liver, served warm and ‘Els Cargols’ (snails) - served with a generous helping of aioli (garlic mayonnaise) are all featured on the menu. This no-fuss dining is ideal after a trip up the Puig as it allows you to re-fuel, sample the local food and then head back down to Pollenca town.
The restaurant is open for breakfast between 8.30am-10am and serves traditional foods such as ensaïmadas, croissants and juices. Lunch is served from 1pm-3pm with dinner starting at 8pm and finishing at 10pm. As the restaurant is quite small, it is a good idea to phone in advanced to reserve a table, especially if you are a large group. This gives the chef a chance to get everything in stock and to prepare your food before you arrive. If you do go for dinner then it is a good idea to take a torch for the way down, there is no lighting on the path and by the time you leave the restaurant it will be pitch dark outside. The kitchen is closed on Mondays so to avoid disappointment, prepare your trip a different day if you are wanting a meal or snack prepared for you at the top or alternatively you can take your own picnic and sit on one of the stone benches outside the monastery.
If you’ve enjoyed too many jugs of sangria during dinner and cannot face stumbling down the hillside then there is accommodation available for around 20€/night for two beds. This accommodation is very basic so do not expect air conditioning, or an en-suite.
My main advise for climbing the Puig would be to wear sensible shoes such as trainers. Although the walk is not challenging, the path can become very rocky and slippery towards the top and wearing sandals or flip-flops could make an easy walk much more tricky and dangerous. Avoid going up the Puig during the midday sun during the summer months, going in the evening around 8pm will be a lot cooler and a more pleasant experience. Make sure you take plenty of water with you but most of all take your time and enjoy the views. This is a great opportunity to enjoy piece and tranquillity so take the chance to savour it.
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Un passeig per Sant Martí de Tous, Anoia. Barcelona
L'Anoia és una terra on els valors tradicionals del pagès són encara molt presents. L'hospitalitat es considera un art, i s'hi practica amb la passió de qui conviu amb una natura aspra i seca.
El Castell de Sant Martí de Tous (960), és actualment un gran casal fortificat, que conserva l'esquema arquitectònic medieval en la planta baixa, però que ha patit moltes modificacions amb incorporacions del gòtic i posteriors restauracions. Si bé és cert que el castell ha marcat el pols de la població durant segles, l'entorn ofereix interessants visites des de l'embassament inaugurat, fins a l'ermita de Sant Pere de l'Erm (s. XI), el nucli antic o la Fou.
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L'Anoia es una tierra donde los valores tradicionales de payés están todavía muy presentes. La hospitalidad se considera un arte, y se practica con la pasión de quien convive con una natura áspera y seca.
El castillo de Sant Martí de Tous (960) es, en la actualidad, una gran casa solariega fortificada que conserva el esquema arquitectónico medieval en su planta baja, pero que ha sufrido numerosas modificaciones con incorporaciones del gótico y posteriores restauraciones. Si bien es cierto que el castillo ha marcado el pulso de la población durante siglos, el entorno ofrece interesantes visitas desde el actual embalse hasta la ermita de Sant Pere de l'Erm (s. xi), el casco antiguo o el salto de agua de La Fou.
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L'Anoia is a land where traditional peasant values are still very present. Hospitality is considered an art, and it is practiced with the passion of those who live within a rough and dry natural environment.
The Castle of Sant Martí de Tous (960) is today a great fortified manor house that still retains the mediaeval architectural plan on the ground floor, but which has undergone many modifications, with Gothic additions and subsequent restorations. Whilst it is true that the castle has marked the course of the village's history for centuries, its surroundings also offer other spots worth visiting, from the 11th-centry sanctuary of Sant Pere de l'Erm, to the Old Town and La Fou.
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L'Anoia est une terre où les valeurs traditionnelles de l'agriculteur sont encore très présentes. L'art de l'hospitalité s'y pratique avec la passion de ceux qui vivent avec parmi une nature rude et sèche.
Le château de Sant Martí de Tous (960), actuellement un grand manoir fortifié, conserve le schéma architectural médiéval au rez-de-chaussée, mais a subi de nombreuses transformations, notamment des ajouts gothiques et des restaurations ultérieures. S'il est vrai que le château marqua le pouls de la localité pendant des siècles, son environnement n'en est pas moins dénué de sites d'intérêt, depuis le bassin relativement récent jusqu'à l'ermitage Sant Pere de l'Erm (xie siècle), le centre historique ou le torrent de la Fou.
Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Casa Batlló is a renowned building located in the center of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that. Gaudí's assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió also contributed to the renovation project. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. Like everything Gaudí designed, it is only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. There are few straight lines, and much of the façade is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís). The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudí's home), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon. The building that is now Casa Batlló was built in 1877 by Antoni Gaudi, commissioned by Lluís Sala Sánchez. It was a classical building without remarkable characteristics within the eclecticism traditional by the end of the 19th century. The building had a basement, a ground floor, four other floors and a garden in the back. The roof terrace is one of the most popular features of the entire house due to its famous dragon back design. Gaudí represents an animal’s spine by using tiles of different colors on one side. The roof is decorated with four chimney stacks, that are designed to prevent backdraughts. The facade has three distinct sections which are harmoniously integrated. The lower ground floor with the main floor and two first-floor galleries are contained in a structure of Montjuïc sandstone with undulating lines. The central part, which reaches the last floor, is a multicolored section with protruding balconies. The top of the building is a crown, like a huge gable, which is at the same level as the roof and helps to conceal the room where there used to be water tanks. This room is currently empty. The top displays a trim with ceramic pieces that has attracted multiple interpretations. The roof's arched profile recalls the spine of a dragon with ceramic tiles for scales, and a small triangular window towards the right of the structure simulates the eye. Legend has it that it was once possible to see the Sagrada Familia through this window, which was being built simultaneously. The view of the Sagrada Familia is now blocked from this vantage point by newer buildings. The tiles were given a metallic sheen to simulate the varying scales of the monster, with the color grading from green on the right side, where the head begins, to deep blue and violet in the center, to red and pink on the left side of the building. The central part of the facade evokes the surface of a lake with water lilies, reminiscent of Monet's Nymphéas, with gentle ripples and reflections caused by the glass and ceramic mosaic. It is a great undulating surface covered with plaster fragments of colored glass discs combined with 330 rounds of polychrome pottery. The discs were designed by Gaudí and Jujol between tests during their stay in Majorca, while working on the restoration of the Cathedral of Palma. Finally, above the central part of the facade is a smaller balcony, also iron, with a different exterior aesthetic, closer to a local type of lily. Two iron arms were installed here to support a pulley to raise and lower furniture. The facade of the main floor, made entirely in sandstone, and is supported by two columns. The design is complemented by joinery windows set with multicolored stained glass. In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation; in fact, this is a floral decoration. The rounded shapes of the gaps and the lip-like edges carved into the stone surrounding them create a semblance of a fully open mouth, for which the Casa Batlló has been nicknamed the house of yawns. The structure repeats on the first floor and in the design of two windows at the ends forming galleries, but on the large central window there are two balconies as described above.
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Gaudí's buildings were thought to be lived. In the interior of these works, you can become absorbed in the innate sense of geometry and volume, as well as, creative capacity of the Catalan genius.
Through this experience, you will live at its most every work that Gaudí created to meet the needs of the residences at the end of the Nineteenth century, as a consequence of the Industrial Revolution. You will have the chance to get into the houses that belonged and still belong to the Catalan bourgeoisie led by our host specializing on Gaudí. You will feel as if you were living there for one day.
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Con We Barcelona visitarás sus monumentos de un modo muy diferente, sin colas, sin pérdidas de tiempo, y siempre de la mano de uno de nuestros expertos guías oficiales que con sus magníficas explicaciones y su conocimiento en la materia hará que te apasiones con Gaudí.
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