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The famous Spanish shoes are made right here and you can have first pick of the newest styles at reduced prices. Follow the billboards featuring a huge foot.
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Dating from 1860, this wonderful shop is all about tradition and refinement, selling embroidered goods of all kinds. The traditional Mallorcan style of wares that you find here simply cannot be imitated by machines.
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A Renaissance-style 18th-century mansion is the showplace for local artists sponsored by the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
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Founded in 1872, this is a pastry shop offering such delights as mantecados (shortbread), cremadillo de cabello (sugar-coated mille feuille), pastel de chocolate (iced chocolate cake with walnuts) or tortaletta rechesol y frutos secos (moist tart topped with nuts). Also buy a bag of quelitas (tiny, egg-shaped crackers).
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Artisan shop with pottery of all sorts, and also embroidery ( punt mallorquin ), glassware, cards, lithographs, jewellery, preserves, wine, olives, oil and authentic robes de llengües (tongue of flame cloth).
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A traditional ceramics workshop with beautiful reproduction tiles and also a collection of antique originals from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Enter through a hanging forest of sausages! Every artisanal foodstuff made on the island is here, including sobrassada , fig loaves, cheeses, brandies, wines, fruits, nuts, sauces and pickles.
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Palma has two branches of Spain’s only true department store, the quality and prices of which are firmly upmarket.
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A café in the town’s central square, where you can study the magnificent parish church and listen to birds chirping.
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Palma has many handicraft shops: this is about the best, with well-chosen pottery, glass and more from across Spain in traditional and contemporary designs.
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