Ajuntament
Historic site · Palma · Mallorca
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The Ajuntament de Palma is the historic city hall building on Plaça de Cort, presenting a Baroque facade with Mannerist elements and built between 1649 and 1680 by architects Pere Bauçá, Miquel Oliver and Bartomeu Calafat. Worth stopping for its facade detail known as the "banco del perezoso" or "banco del sinofos," a stone bench where locals reportedly sat to sunbathe instead of going to work.
Step into the entrance hall and two giants meet you first: Tòfol and Francinaina, wooden figures over four metres tall that have stood in the vestibule since the early 1960s. They are not the originals. The first pair, built in 1904, sailed for Barcelona in July 1936 to take part in the People's Olympiad, the anti-fascist answer to that year's Berlin Games; the ship carrying them was diverted as the military coup that opened the Spanish Civil War broke out, and the giants disappeared. A postwar replacement by sculptor Sebastià Alcover also vanished before the current pair, made by Joan Monserrat Palmer and Francisca Vives Bellaflor, took their place. The town hall around them stands on the site of the former Hospital de Sant Andreu and the medieval Casa de la Universitat.
What you see
The building's most striking feature from the square is its huge wooden eave, projecting about three metres out from the roofline over the whole facade, with a balcony running the width of seven windows underneath it.
Practical
Free guided tours run on the second Sunday of each month, except August: 11:00 in Catalan, 12:00 in Spanish, capped at 20 people and booked in advance.
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Ayuntamiento built in 1718 — a listed palma.
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Common questions
- Why stop at Ajuntament on a bike ride?
- The Ajuntament de Palma is the historic city hall building on Plaça de Cort, presenting a Baroque facade with Mannerist elements and built between 1649 and 1680 by architects Pere Bauçá, Miquel Oliver and Bartomeu Calafat. Worth stopping for its facade detail known as the "banco del perezoso" or "banco del sinofos," a stone bench where locals reportedly sat to sunbathe instead of going to work.
- Where is Ajuntament?
- Ajuntament is in Palma, Mallorca (Spain).