Beyond La Seu Cathedral, Mallorca's religious architecture includes a mountaintop monastery revered across the island and the Carthusian charterhouse where Chopin famously spent a difficult winter.
Mallorca's most important pilgrimage site, this monastery sits deep in the Tramuntana mountains and has drawn visitors to its shrine of the Verge de Lluc (the island's patron saint) since medieval times. The complex includes a basilica, museum, botanical garden, and accommodation once used by monks and pilgrims. The Blauets boys' choir sings daily in the basilica. A peaceful, scenic stop that pairs well with a Tramuntana driving route.
This former Carthusian monastery in the mountain village of Valldemossa is best known as the place where composer Frédéric Chopin and writer George Sand spent the winter of 1838-39, an experience Sand chronicled in A Winter in Majorca. Visitors can tour the monks' cells, a pharmacy, and the rooms where Chopin composed, including his piano. Combine with a wander through Valldemossa's flower-lined stone streets.
This 13th-century Franciscan basilica in Palma's old town is known for its elegant Gothic cloister, one of the finest on the island, and its Baroque main altarpiece. The tomb of Ramon Llull, the medieval Mallorcan philosopher and missionary, lies in a side chapel. The cloister's tranquil arcaded courtyard offers a quiet break from the busier cathedral nearby, with far fewer visitors.
One of Palma's oldest parish churches, built shortly after the 1229 Christian conquest on the site of a former mosque, with a soaring Gothic nave added later. Santa Eulàlia sits at the heart of a maze of narrow old-town streets bearing its name. Climb the bell tower for elevated views over the rooftops of the old city, a quieter alternative to the cathedral rooftop tour.