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Mallorca Shoe Museum: Museu del Calçat i de la Indústria

Mallorca Shoe Museum

Mallorca is a great place to get a new pair of shoes. In fact, footwear has been made on the island for centuries. Today, traditional manufacturers and young creative designers can be found here next to a global player of the industry. The Museu del Calçat i de la Indústria, the Mallorca Shoe Museum in Inca, tells the eventful history of the long-established craft. It‘s only a few steps from popular Cafè Inca to the former army infantry baracks that have been beautifully restored. Where the…

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Museu de Mallorca: Images of an Island

Museu de Mallorca

Picture the history of Mallorca as a graphic novel. Yet not drawn by one illustrator but told in paintings and sculptures by artists of the respective time. Exhibited in a splendid Gothic palace in the Calatrava district of Palma. Pass a large cobbled patio with a row of perfectly rounded sandstone arches and climb the wide staircase to the planta noble. Even the first impression of the Museu de Mallorca is magnificent. The Mallorca Museum houses almost eight centuries of island history. And it…