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From: Costa Magica Cruise Review

Palma de Mallorca (3)

Although the city and suburbs of Palma de Mallorca run for miles along the coast, the historic center is quite small. It's also a pleasant place for walking, with many streets and squares that have been closed off to vehicle traffic.

Many of the narrow downtown streets are lined with old buildings that have stone or stucco façades and traditional wooden shutters.

We liked this small but elegant shopping and office arcade, which we discovered by accident as we explored Palma's city center.

An angel statue caught our eye outside a "Springfield Woman" shop. (Marge Simpson, take note.)

If we'd been hungry, we could have ordered paella, a Catalan specialty, at any number of cafés and restaurants.

But we weren't hungry, so we satisfied our appetite for snapping pet photos. (We noticed that dogs are popular fashion accessories in Palma's central shopping district.)

Horses are also fixtures in downtown Palma--though as beasts of burden, not as pets or surrogates for Hermès scarves.