Sanctuaries
The cultural tour of shrines, chapels and oratories of Mallorca can offer an interesting value to your visit to Mallorca. Another cultural point of view and alternative. Many of our sanctuaries and shrines began to be built in the thirteenth century, after the conquest of Mallorca by the Catalan troops.
Over eight centuries have undergone reforms, coinciding with periods of economic boom.
Each of the chapels, monasteries and shrines have an interest in itself, but if you want to visit all of you a planning of the attractions on the coast of Tramuntana, in the area of ??Pla de Mallorca, in the north and northeast and in Migjorn. You can make the visit on foot, horseback, bicycle or car, although some places are not accessible to conventional vehicles.
The route can take whatever you want: one day, several days, and so on.
Here we propose a list of the main attractions.
Sanctuaries of interest:
Alcúdia
- Ermita de la Victoria: XIV century and rebuilt in the eighteenth century. Restaurant and inn.
- Oratorio de Santa Ana: Siglo XIV. Gothic
Algaida
-Oratory Castellitx or Our Lady of Good Peace: Siglo XIII. In the foothills of the mountain of Randa.
-Shrine of Grace: Siglo XV. It is a little higher than the previous one, in the mountain of Randa.
-Ermita de San Honorato,: Siglo XV. At the top of the mountain of Randa in the same way that leads to the Sanctuary of Healing. Today belongs to the Order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and has guest quarters.
-Shrine of Our Lady of Healing: Siglo XV. Situated on top of Puig de Randa. Retreat of Ramon Llull. In Randa founded the first Latin Grammar School in Mallorca that remained active until 1826. It has a hostel of 22 cells.
Arta
- Sanctuary of San Salvador: Siglo XIX. El Puig de San Salvador already inhabited by the first settlers of Mallorca in the second century BC, was a mosque and fortress during the Muslim period.
-Chapel of Bethlehem: Siglo XIX. Located within the current Levante Natural Park. Located in the old farmhouse Binialgorfa Muslim.
Calvia
- Oratory of Our Lady of Portals: Siglo XIX. Replaced the cave Portals Vells, place of worship for years the image of the Virgin of Portals.
- Chapel of the Sacred Stone: Siglo XX. Its main attraction is that it keeps the stone that served as the altar for the Catalan troops landed in Mallorca recently held a mass.
Campanet
- Ermita de San Miguel: Siglo XIII. Near the caves of Campanet. It was constructed on a Muslim mosque built in turn on the walls of a Christian basilica.
Campos
- Oratorio de San Blas: Siglo XIII. Example of Gothic architecture, after the conquest of 1229. It is a procession on Sunday after St. Blaise (February 3).
Escorca
- Ermita de Sant Pere: Siglo XIII. Example of early Gothic. It was a place of worship until the creation of Sanctuary Lluc in the fifteenth century. Private property.
Shrine of the Virgen de Lluch, is the spiritual center of Mallorca, where he is venerated the Virgin of Lluc, gothic image of the fourteenth century, patron saint of Mallorca. Hospedería and choice of bars and restaurants.
Esporles
• Hermitage Maristel-la: Siglo XIX
Felanitx
- Sanctuary of the Virgen de San Salvador: Siglo XIV. Located on the mount of the same name. Built by the Black Death in Felanitx killed about 900 people. There inn, restaurant and cafeteria. In the sixteenth century was a grammar school set up during the seventeenth century and served as a lookout to monitor the attacks of the pirates of North Africa.
Inca
- Ermita de Santa Magdalena: Siglo XIII. On top of the mountain of the same name. Hosts a popular pilgrimage Angel on Sunday.
Lloseta
- Oratorio de la Virgen del Coco: Siglo XIX. Built in 1878. A traditional celebration of "pancaritat" the first Wednesday of Easter.
Manacor
-Chapel of Santa Lucia: Siglo XVII.
Manacor de la Vall
- Oratory of St. Lucia: Example architecture restocking (s. XIII), at the foot of Mount Suro, with magnificent views over the Pla.
Marratxí
- Church of San Marçal: Siglo XVIII. Subject of one of the most important pilgrimages in Mallorca every 30 June.
Palma
- Monasterio de San Bernat de la Real: Siglo XIII. In the Muslim period was a garden of the governor. About the year 1266, after the conquest, the Cistercian monks settled here his monastery, under the monastery of Poblet in Catalonia until 1560. Ramon Llull made visits to the Royal where he wrote some of his works. Balear currently houses the Library, with an important bibliographical. Each day takes place August 19 a massive pilgrimage from the Plaça de Cort in Palma to the monastery. The smell permeates the room albarca.
Petra
- Sanctuary of the Virgen de Bonany: Siglo XVII. Temple in the Fray Junipero Serra, California evangelist preached last. The sanctuary has a guesthouse with five cells. Every Tuesday of Easter is celebrated a "pancaritat"
Pollensa
- Oratorio del Calvario accessible by car or on foot, climbing a staircase of 365 steps. Its facade is the eighteenth century. The carving of the Virgin (s. XIV) was found by some fishermen.
- Sanctuary of the Puig de Maria: Siglo XIV. In the eighteenth century the church was modified by changing the Gothic to Baroque. In the nineteenth century a new intervention restored his original style. It has a guesthouse with twelve cells.
Porreres
- Oratorio de Monti-Sion: Siglo XIV. Located in the foothills of the Massif Randa inn has three cells and a restaurant. Currently holds an ordeal from the village.
Sant Joan
- Sanctuary of Consolation: XIII Century Santa Maria
- Chapel of Our Lady of Peace Son Seguí: Occupied seventeenth century hermits from the seventeenth century (houses are Seguí) until the nineteenth century.
Santanyi
- Sanctuary of Consolation: Siglo XV. Excellent panorama.
Sa Pobla
- Oratorio Crestatx: Siglo XIII. A chapel was built early in the thirteenth century, but the new chapel was built in 1820.
Valldemossa
- Chapel of the Holy Trinity: Started in 1648. Currently inhabited by hermits. Excellent panorama. One of the most beautiful and romantic chapels of Mallorca.