Palma Cathedral and Gothic quarter
Personal Tour guide conducting private guided tours
The tariff for the walking guided tour is ... Euro for the group, it is the same if you are two people or if you are 15. As it is a customized service we can make it last until max. up to three hours. The meeting point has to be in any point of the historical center easy to locate ( ej.Miró monument in Plaza de la Reina). The walking tour included Palma cathedral, unique of the world where we wil apreciate the contrast of the gothic with the Art noveau (of Antonio Gaudi) and the Privitivisme (of Miguel Barcelö) recently inaugurated. Our walk continues trough the narrow streets that conform the old gothic district and the Alfama of the Jewish quarter, description of typology of casals and patios etc. etc.
I need to know with exactitude the date and the hour to meet you and to see if I am available or in any case look for other date or time that maith be well to both of us.
The metaphysical significance of the numbers in Palma Cathedral
The basis of many churches is sacry geometry and proportion. Numbers had a metaphysical significance, and were thought to have occult power. Every aspect of the medieval cathedral utilized that significace: the number of pillars in the choir, the ratio of the levels of in the triforium, etc. Rose windows are no exception to this rule. The triangle means stability trascending duality.Our rosewindow composed of twenty four triangles twelve of them represent the shape of six pointed star.
The most visual presence of the three in the cathedral is the one of its architectonic structure , it is a cathedral of three naves, the cathedral can be perceived like the conjunction of three churches.
1.The first that was constructed named Chapel of the Trinidad, there is above, to where the pantheons of the mallorcan kings are located
2.Second , the Royal Chapel, where it is now the altar and presbitery.
3.Third it arises when the construction is tripled and appeared the building of the three aisles.
There are three the rosewindows , entering by the greater vestibule.
There are three the most excellent lampadarios,
1.the one of the seven lamps on the episcopal chair,
2.the one of the octogonal crown of the baldaquino on the greater altar and
3.the one of lucerna conical truncated in center of the central nave.
Number three is not absolutely strange to the cultural patrimony of the Church.
The Christians adore a trinitary God
1.Father,
2.Son and
3.holy Spirit
Three are three teologal virtues - faith, hope and charity.
Not only the Christian cultural patrimony has been constructed, partly, on the paradigm of the three. The old civilization celta counts on the three spirals of the Kristel, Dante divided in three parts the Divine Comedy, are famous the three laws of Newton.
The great reform that Obispo Campins proposed to the artis Antonio Gaud� formulated through a triple charge:
1. to obtain an altar for God,
2. a chair for the bishop and
3. a great space for the people.
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Cruise passengers
Shore excursion in Palma de Mallorca. You have the same freedom of movement as if you were on your own, but without wasting your precious time finding your way around town ....
For the Med. we felt we made the best decision in spending for the private tours since the attractions and cities were further apart from the ports where the ship docked. Plus there is so much more to see and take in as far as history goes in the Med., so we were glad to have a local explain it all to us and not have to worry about the logistics of train schedules on our own or be held up by the crowds on the ship's tour.
Perfect shore excursion : We pick you up at the pier. Show you around the main Sigts . For a whole morning or afternoon or even for a full day, before driving you back to the pier
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Culture is an ever-present element in the life of the island. All year round there are festivals, concerts, literary competitions, exhibitions, recitals, theatre performances… The city of Palma de Mallorca is the cultural and artistic centre of the island, and is outstanding for the excellent conservation of its historic centre. Be sure to take a stroll around the old town and enjoy the varied, entertaining nightlife. Every year, Majorca's charm attracts famous politicians, film stars, personalities from the world of fashion... they make the island their holiday destination.
Majorca has excellent communications by air and sea. Airlines from numerous countries operate out of its Son Sant Joan international airport, eight kilometres from Palma. The island also has transport links with the rest of the archipelago and the Spanish mainland via boats and scheduled ferry services that sail from the ports of Palma and Alcúdia. These excellent communications mean that from Majorca you can make visits to other Balearic Islands, such as Ibiza and Minorca, with return day-trips possible
Calls by Cruise liners to port of Palma go to :
THE PORT AUTHORITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
Piracy and corsarismo only they differ for the legality of their actions of robbery. The corsairs were enjoying the famous "letter of marque" granted by the State to attack the ships and goods of enemy countries, and had to satisfy rather per cent of their earnings that could come up to 20 % to the public exchequer
"Letter of marque "
Since Fernand Braudel wrote: " The Corsairs, this lawful form of war, is not an exclusive activity of an alone group and an alone person in charge or culprit does not know. It is endemic. All persons, wretched and powerful, rich and poor , cities, nobles, states ... they are tangled in the meshes of a network stretched from end to end of the Mediterranean, for all its shores ". www.visitapalma.galeon.com
The corsairs were something like " capitalist businessmen " who were arming their fleets to extract big benefits. Of the activity corsaria they were benefiting the nobles, clergymen, merchants and families xuetes, very related to the sea. Also it was the last resource of regions with scanty economic means, as it is happened in Eivissa's island, where the corsairs have even one monument
. The piracy was, on the contrary, a depredation not controlled by the State, which nevertheless also it was benefiting of it.
It was a traditional activity in the Mediterranean from the Antigúedad, though during the XVIth and XVIIth century it grew extraordinarily because of the political conflicts and the reigning insecurity.
The clash of Carlos I with Francisco I of France and the alliance of the latter with the Ottoman Empire turned to the Islands in a border between two worlds: north and south, Christianity and Islam, Europe and Africa.
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"Patente de corso"
Como escribió Fernand Braudel: "El corso, esa forma lícita de guerra, no es una actividad privativa de un solo grupo y no conoce un solo responsable o culpable. Es endémico. Todos, miserables y poderosos, ricos y pobres, ciudades, nobles, estados... están enredados en las mallas de una red tendida de extremo a extremo del Mediterráneo, por todas sus orillas".
Piratería y corsarismo sólo se diferencian por la legalidad de sus acciones de rapiña. Los corsarios gozaban de la famosa "patente de corso" otorgada por el Estado para atacar las naves y bienes de países enemigos, y debían satisfacer un tanto por ciento de sus ganancias (que podía llegar al 20 %) al erario público
. Los corsarios fueron algo así como "empresarios capitalistas" que armaban sus flotas para sacar grandes beneficios. De la actividad corsaria se beneficiaban los nobles, clérigos, comerciantes y familias xuetes, muy relacionadas con el mar. También fue el último recurso de regiones con escasos medios económicos, como ocurrio en la isla de Eivissa, donde los corsarios tienen incluso un monumento. http://www.visitapalma.galeon.com/
La piratería era, por el contrario, una depredación no controlada por el Estado, que sin embargo tambien se beneficiaba de ella.
Fue una actividad tradicional en el Mediterráneo desde la Antigúedad, aunque durante los siglos XVI y XVII creció extraordinariamente a causa de los conflictos políticos y la inseguridad reinante.
El enfrentamiento de Carlos I con Francisco I de Francia y la alianza de este último con el Imperio otomano convirtió a las Islas en una frontera entre dos mundos: norte y sur, Cristianismo e Islam, Europa y África.
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