Es Call, Palma's medieval Jewish quarter, carries a history both long and painful. Jewish merchants settled here before the Christian conquest of Mallorca in 1229, living alongside Muslims in relative peace.

That changed. After the conquest, the community was walled in, nominally for protection, but in practice confined. By the mid-1400s, around 3,000 Jews had been killed and many more forcibly converted to Christianity, taking on new names to survive while privately clinging to their faith.

The quarter's narrow lanes still bear golden floor markings that once delineated the ghetto's boundaries. A handful of patios from the Vilalonga family, built in the 1400s, survive nearby: open courtyards where anyone could draw water from the well, social spaces that outlasted the walls enclosing them.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace Es Call's layered past, connecting the golden markers underfoot to Mallorca's centuries-long Inquisition, which persecuted Jewish converts here until 1834.