Medieval Walls

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Although largely rebuilt, Alcúdia's fine city walls are impressive. Those on the north side are largely the medieval originals while near the Porta Roja (Red Gate) are remnants of an 18th-century bridge. From the bridge, you can climb up and walk around 250m atop the walls, as far as Carrer del Progres, with fine views over town and towards the distant hills. Beyond the bridge to the northeast, the Plaça de Toros (bullring) has been built into a Renaissance-era fortified bastion.


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1. Ca’n Canta

0.15 MILES

A fine old home with stunning carvings around its 1st-floor windows, just west of Plaça de sa Constitució, opposite the entrance to Carrer dels Albellons.

2. Ca’n Fondo

0.19 MILES

This stolid and imposing building with classical carvings around its 1st-floor windows is a short walk north of the turning with Carrer de Sant Jaume.

3. Porta del Moll

0.19 MILES

A magnificent sight at the east end of the old town sporting two towers, this solitary 14th-century gate is one of the two surviving gates of Alcúdia.

5. Ca’n Domènech

0.2 MILES

One of Alcúdia's finest, this large, grand and noble building has a largely unadorned facade.

6. Museu Monogràfic de Pol·lèntia

0.24 MILES

This one-room museum has a fascinating but limited collection of statue fragments, coins, jewellery, household figurines of divinities, scale models of…

7. Museu de Sant Jaume

0.25 MILES

This museum, housed in the large eponymous Gothic church, contains a collection of priestly vestments, paintings and religious items.

8. Pol·lèntia

0.3 MILES

Ranging over a sizeable (but walkable) area, the fascinating ruins of the Roman town of Pol·lèntia lie just outside Alcúdia's walls. Founded around 70 BCE…