The Arab Baths of Palma date from the eleventh century, and they spent much of the intervening time hidden inside a private garden, undiscovered until the twentieth century. That alone makes them worth seeking out.

Built during the Muslim period when this neighbourhood was part of Madina Mayurqa, the baths served as places of social and spiritual life as much as hygiene. The main room, the caldarium, sits beneath a dome pierced with small circular openings that filter the light into something soft and diffused.

The columns holding it up are all different in style and origin, each one salvaged from an earlier Roman or Byzantine structure, which gives the room an accidental, patchwork elegance. Hot water once circulated beneath the floor. The orange and palm trees in the surrounding garden complete the picture.

VoiceMap's tours place the baths within Palma's Islamic past, connecting them to the broader story of Madina Mayurqa and the layered civilisations that shaped the city's streets.