Manacor

Manacor (population 30, 000) is the second biggest town in Mallorca, but ten times smaller than the island’s capital, Palma. Compared to the capital, Manacor is a small provincial backwater, where Catalan is still the main language spoken. There is no mass tourism in Manacor. The beautiful old town centre has a big pedestrian are. It’s worth going to pay a visit to the big church of Nuestra Senyora dels Dolors with its 80m high church tower. The church is only open in the morning, and closes at 12pm.

Manacor is famous within Spain for three things: Artificial peals, furniture and olive wood products. You should try to visit the pearl factory which out of town on the road to Palma. The pearls are made from fish scales and look very similar to real pearls – unfortunately, the price tag is not very cheap. The big building ‘Oliv-Art’ is conspicuous and worth going into to look at it’s olive wood products and exhibitions. It is signposted from all over Manacor.

The best day to visit Manacor is on the market day (Monday). This is a market for local people rather than tourists, and the market supplies cloth, food and general household goods at low prices. You can also buy olive wood products and ceramics here at cheaper prices.

Connections to Manacor: The train station of Manacor is the transportation hub for all public transport and roads in Eastern Mallorca. There are hourly buses to Inca, Cales de Mallorca, Cala Millor, Cala Ratjada and other places in the island’s east. If you’d like to go to Palma, the train is cheaper than the bus, and the journey is also more interesting. There is a train every hour, stopping at Inca on the way. A train ticket from Manacor to Palma is around €4 – two euros cheaper than the bus.

( The new Train Station of Manacor )

Ferienhaus Dänemark