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SHOPPING: Shopping Centres Festival Park Mallorca
Festival Park is the largest leisure and outlet centre in Mallorca. It is located next to the main motorway that joins the capital, Palma, with the north of the island, near the second belt of the city, under construction and very close to the three main tourist nuclei of the island. Over the last year, the influx of general public has exceeded 3.5 million visitors, around 25% of them tourists who arrive on organised tours and in their rental cars. In less than two years, more than 6 million clients have visited Festival Park. Address: Palma – Inca Motorway, Km 7.1, Marratxi
Telephone: 971 140 925
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday from 10.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Porto Pi Located in Palma Bay, this is Mallorca`s largest commercial centre. More than 140 establishments with the best offerings of fashion, accessories, household products, services, leisure and dining. Address: Av. Gabriel Roca 54, Palma de Mallorca
Telephone: 971 701 500
Opening hours: N/A
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés is the largest chain of department stores in Spain, with a large variety of fashion articles, and departments selling home goods, food, sports equipment, electronic goods, perfumes, music, motoring goods, flowers, mp3s, leisure and culture services, etc. Services available are the El Corte Inglés Store Card, credit cards, finance, customer service department, bank cash machines, shopping lists, parking, phone-order, automobile repair shop, home delivery, gift wrapping, gift cards, on-line store. Address: Av. Alexandre Roselló, 12-16, Palma de Mallorca
Telephone: 971 770 177
Opening hours: N/A Passeig Born
The Passeig de Born is an outstanding urban space in the city of Palma de Mallorca. It joins characteristics of traditional urbanisation with classical and romantic elements in which the great baroque palace of Can Solleric, converted into an exhibition hall, stands out. The historical meaning of the word “born” makes reference to the jousting matches that knights used to hold in this place. The land that it occupies used to be a narrow creek through which the torrent of the river Riera flowed. In the year 1613, the torrent was moved to its current location in the Passeig Mallorca to avoid the deaths that its flooding has caused on successive occasions over the course of time, such as during the rains of 1403, remembered as Lo Diluvi (The Flood) that devastated 1500 houses and affected some 5000 victims. In 1833 an important reform was carried out which gave the place its present look.
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