holiday homes in Llucmajor

Many coffee shops around the market place

After shopping, you have a wide choice of cafés to drink or eat something. On the central market square with the historic town hall from the year 1882, the one or other good culinary address is waiting. All coffees and restaurants were able to place their tables and chairs on the street, after cars were abandoned on the Plaça d’Espanya.

The classic among all is the Café Colon, which opened in 1928. With nice weather, you can sit outside and with bad weather in the classic inside of the historic coffee house. You’ll find here residents and tourists alike. For the first place for the gastronomy popularity price, the Bistro Mercat and the Tomates Verdes Restaurant with good Majorcan kitchen and Spanish tapas are challenging each other.

The shooting star is the newly opened Contrabando at the Passeig Jaume III with inspiring fresh market kitchen and vegetarian dishes.

Moved past

On the Passeig, a central street, a monument reminds on an important historical event, which had a lot of influence on the history of the island. At the battle of Llucmajor on the 25th of October 1349 Pedro IV defeat his cousin, the Majorcan King Jaume III and put an end to the monarchy of Majorca. The last king of Majorca fell in the northern battle place in front of the city. At first he was buried in the church in Llucmajor, today he is lying in the cathedral of Palma.

Llucmajor also made a monument for its shoe makers (at the southern part of the market square at the Carrer del Bisble Tauxequet). At the beginning of the 20th century, they were responsible for the economic boom and the village became the centre of the shoe production. From this prosperits of the last century many historical buildings, like the fishers market hall from 1915, which was renovated very nicely, and many state owned buildings at the Plaça d‘Espanya. Llucmajors characteristic parish church Sant Miguel was already mentioned in the year 1248, but todays building was only built in the 18th century.

Also, the surroundings are covered by Majorcan history: recommended sights are the five kilometres remoted northern monastery hills Puig de Randa and southern from Llucmajor the astonishing good maintained remains of the Talayot-settlement Capocorb Vell from the Bronze Age.

Who does not know Llucmajor yet should know that village and surroundings want to be discovered and they have much more to offer then the first look may suggest.