Lonja de Mallorca

Join us on this super tasty trip full of Mediterranean flavors and get a real taste of our culture in a fun cooking experience. Our hosts will guide you to learn how to make a full traditional Spanish menu, the food that we cook & share in our homes with family & friends. This friendly class is open to everybody and can be adapted to all levels. Our hands-on cooking experience takes place in a historic building: an old flour windmill from the 16th century that we have brought back to life. Aprons on, we will dive into our culture cooking all together a 5 dish full menu on a journey all around our country and back to Mallorca. Through our kitchen, we will travel to different parts of Spain, taste traditional flavors and discover the secrets hidden in the preparation of the culinary icons of our culture. Vivan, Ricc, María or Luís, will guide you into the “classic” of every home and the tricks our mums and grandmothers use in the kitchen. Tasty easy to make recipes that you can take home so you can surprise friends & family: local "sobrasada" appetizer, the authentic "tortilla", tradicional "paella" and "Catalan cream". All cooked with lots of love and a pinch of adventure! We turn the process into a fun, team working and accessible session, so that our guests enjoy their time together and feel secure and able to repeat the menus back home. After the cooking session, we will sit together at our big dining table and experience the love for the emotional, social and festive component of the Mediterranean table.

Explore Palma de Mallorca by bike on a 3-hour guided tour of the historic Old Town. See monuments from Byzantine to Muslim times, along with fine examples of the island’s Modernisme architecture. Meet your guide near Palma Cathedral on Plaza del Rosari. Then, pedal down some of the city’s most enchanting streets. Learn the history of the city and its most important buildings as you get lost in the alleys of the Old Town. Look at the impressive façade of the Seu (Palma Cathedral), and go to the Royal Palace of La Almudaina, built as an Arabian Fort and now an official residence of the Spanish Royal Family. See the remains of the old city walls, and admire the slender columns of La Lonja (market). Pedal down the leafy La Rambla de Palma to watch the flower sellers and street performers at work, and look at the façade of the Ajuntament (Town Hall). Discover the remains of the Banys Àrabs (Arab Baths) as one of the reminders of Palma's Moorish past, and peer into the windows of the luxury shops on Paseo del Borne.

Our tour starts at one of our 2 starting points (or at any preferred location if its a privately booked tour) where you will be introduced to your tour guide, asked to sign a disclaimer and consent to our bike tour policy. Shortly after you will be handed a comfortable high quality city bike, a helmet (obligatory until 16 years of age) and a basket if you wish. Water can be purchased at our shop. Our tour guide will give you a briefing on the general facts and what to expect of the tour, the timing, procedures and local rules regarding biking in Palma de Mallorca and a demonstration of how the bikes work. We will help you to adjust the bike seat to your height in order to get the most comfortable experience out of your tour. After this we are ready to set off! Our TOUR WITH TAPAS takes you along the bike lane on the seafront avenue in the direction of the main Cathedral “La Seu”. Along our route we do short stops on many places and tell you interesting facts about the things you are looking at. After a few stops around Parc de la Mar we will seek our way into the old town of Palma de Mallorca where open and sunny esplanades are swopt for beautiful ancient narrow streets and alleys. Old churches and plazas are very abundant in the old town and you will see and learn about several of them. Our tour also includes a little stop at a (still working) convent for nuns that dates back to the 13th and that offers the possibility to purchase a little something edible for the ones who’ve got a sweet tooth. From here we continue to discover the old mainly medieval part of Palma passing by the most popular visitor’s sites in the city and also discovering the wide selection of museums, art galleries and other sites of interest for the curious visitors. Now it’s time for one of the true highlights of our tour; the tapas stop. We include one drink and 3 tapas per person and you can choose from a wide range of typical Spanish “montaditos” tapas. After the stop it’s time to start rounding up our tour by visiting the last important sites located in the neighbourhood of La Lonja and/or Santa Catalina/Es Jonquet.

This is a great experience, starting at a walking distance from the port; we make a 18 km tour in Palma de Mallorca without effort in a comfortable electric bicycle visiting the old town, and some other places of interest like the castle of Bellver. Also on our way from and back to the port we will be using a dedicated bike line with amazing views mainly facing the sea. So go ahead and give you the chance to live an incomparable experience, to enjoy incredible landscapes and the kindness and closeness that characterizes us.

Discover the beautiful city of Palma de Mallorca starting from the port with this bike tour. Enjoy a this shore excursion bike tour through the small alleys and hidden corners of Palma. During the tour you will see the must visits of Palma: Cathedral of Mallorca, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, City Wall, Lonja of Palma, where you will be surprised by its helical columns, Almudaina Royal Palace, Palma City Hall, Church of Santa Eulalia and much more. The tour will stop at the most impressive viewpoints of Palma so you can take the best pictures of your visit. This bike tour comes with Worry-free policy: Guaranteed on-time return to your ship.

We will visit the most representative and important monuments and buildings of Palma. On our tour we will visit: -The Cathedral, -The Diocesan building, -The Almudaina Palace. Arabian citadel -City walls, -San Francisco church, -The Town Hall, -Santa Eulalia. The first parish church built in town, -Juan Carlos I square, -Merchants guild headquarters In every stop we make, we will talk about architechtural aspects and for sure we have to discover the most representative animal of each building and its historical perspective, legend or history.