One of the best joice in Palma de Mallorca. Restaurant Federico Garcia is located in the heart of Palma de Mallorca in the street of the same name, Federico Garcia Lorca, 4. In addition to a very special, cultivated ambience, at Frederico Garcia you will enjoy select Mediterranean cuisine based on original Italian and Spanish recipes. One of the restaurant’s highlights is its stone oven in which, among other things, the city’s best pizza is baked. All pasta and meat-based dishes are prepared fresh and with loving attention to detail. An abundant selection of fresh salads and small, imaginative dishes provide a varied menu even for guests with a smaller appetite. Federico Garcia is the top location for parties and meetings, where weddings, baptisms, birthdays or office parties for up to 100 people become an unforgettable experience. Simply telephone your reservation on +34 971 451 451.
Palma de Mallorca
Palma is the major city and port on the island of Mallorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of the island on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2007 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 383,107, and the population of the entire urban area was estimated to be 517,285, ranking as the 12th-largest urban area of Spain. Almost half of the total population of Mallorca live in Palma.
THE HISTORY
The archipelago of Cabrera, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. Its airport, Son Sant Joan, serves over 22 million passengers each year. The Marivent Palace was offered by the city to the then Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain. The royals have since spent their summer holidays in Palma.
The center
Palma (Palmaria) was founded as a Roman camp upon the remains of a Talaiotic settlement. The turbulent history of the city saw it the subject of several Vandal sackings during the fall of the Roman Empire, then reconquered by the Byzantine, then colonised by the Moors (who called it Medina Mayurqa), and finally established by James I of Aragon.
A ROMAN PLACE
After the conquest of Mallorca, it was loosely incorporated into the province of Tarraconensis by 123 BC; Romans founded two new cities: Palmaria on the south of the island, and Pollentia in the northeast - on the site of a Phoenician settlement. Whilst Pollentia acted as port to Roman cities on the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, Palmaria was the port used for destinations in Africa, such as Carthage, and Hispania, such as Saguntum, Gades, and Carthago Nova. Though no visible remains of this period are seen in present day Palma, archaeological discoveries still occur whenever excavating under the city centre.
