Manacor
Here, above all the manors, windmills, towers, churches, etc. to admire. Manacor pearls manages three factories and the city is called the furniture.
Here one finds the operation of daily life. Tourist Manacor is not marked. All around there are some luxury hotels Manacor. The town boasts a landscape that invites walking and bicycling.
The first signs of people going back to 2000 BC. From this time the man-made caves grave. 1400 BC eastern tribes arrived in the city, which demonstrate pottery shards and place names. The origin is probably from the Islamic rule, archaeological finds from around the Parish Church testify to this. Already in 1300 Manacor was appointed to the city. Even before the church should be built. Today, even individual parts of the royal palace and mansions are admired. 1576, founded the Dominican Order and the monastery remained until 1835 in their hand until it turned the country among themselves. Since then, the monastery is the seat of local government and the Court. Up to 19 Century was operated in Manacor, animal husbandry and agriculture. Then began the change, the industry grew, processed agricultural products, windmills and brandy factories increased. Later came the furniture manufacturing and the pearl industry, which today are the economic fundamentals of Manacor. End of the 19th Century, the new parish church at the same place as early as the 12th Occupied century church, which was probably more of a mosque built. In this period have also been erected the stately houses, there were new neighborhoods.
Here are some attractions in Manacor: the prehistoric village Hospitalet Vell, church Son Peretó, the Torre dels Enagistes, monastery and cloister Sant Vicenç Ferrer, the church of Nostra Senyora dels Dolors, the exhibition halls of the pearl factories Majórica and Perlas Orquídea and the caves of Porto Cristo. Every morning is a fruit and vegetable market at the market hall and a weekly market every Monday morning in the streets of Manacor.




