Secrets of Jewish Majorca - Half Day Experience

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Mobile ticket
Offered in: English, Spanish
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Overview

Hear the stones whisper hundred of years of history. Learn about the Inquisition, forced conversions, and the emergence of the ‘Crypto-Jews. This visit includes all of the sites of the highlights tour as well as additional locations connected to Jewish heritage in Palma. You will learn about the Inquisition, forced conversions, and the emergence of the ‘Crypto-Jews’ who publicly professed Catholicism while privately adhering to Judaism. We will also visit the specific streets where the Xueta families have lived for centuries until as recently as the 1960s. Signs of this at-one-point marginalized community can still be found today with many of the current jewelry shops having been kept within their families for generations beforehand. Even the famous Mallorquin pastry, the “ensaimada” is specifically cooked with pork fat as a reaction to the centuries-old prejudice and discrimination.

Meeting points

We will meet in front of the Starbucks coffee shop in Plaça de Cort in the city center.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Palma de Mallorca

Start in the Jewish Quarter Interpretation Center, which is next to the entry point to the old Jewish Quarter. Whenever you visit Jewish Quarters in and around Catalan-speaking regions of Spain such as the Balearics, Valencia, and Barcelona you may see the signs “Carrer de Call” or “Street of the Jewish Quarter.” We enter a secret tunnel in a Ceramics Workshop then view memorial plaques or Stopelsteins from the Spanish Civil War. You will learn about the Inquisition, forced conversions, and the emergence of the ‘Crypto-Jews’ who publicly professed Catholicism while privately adhering to Judaism. Visit the specific streets where the Xueta families have lived for centuries until as recently as the 1960s. You will also learn about the tragic events of 1691, when a group of Crypto-Jews tried to escape on the ship of an English captain but a storm prevented their departure. We end visiting the plaza where 18 orange trees were donated by the local Jewish community.

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Museum

30 minutes
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Take a visit to a unique modern bakery with a medieval oven built in 1652

30 minutes

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Fun & Fascinating

Published on Dec, 2024

The tour was fascinating and the guide was so friendly and knowledgeable. We learned a great deal and had fun discovering secrets and realities of Mallorca’s lost Jewish community and its “Xueta” descendants. Our guide also offered some hope for revived Jewish communal life on Mallorca. Heartily recommend!

Great tour of Jewish Majorca!

Published on Dec, 2024

We had an amazing tour! We saw and learned so much about Jewish Majorca. Lots of secrets for sure. We enjoyed it so much and highly recommend it for anyone living in it visiting Majorca!

Wonderful Jewish Walking Tour

Published on Dec, 2024

I have not stopped talking about the Wonderful Jewish walking tour I had with Lovely Knowledgeable Cristina from Jewish Majorca two weeks ago. The founder of the company, Dani Rotstein, kept in contact with me before the tour to make sure that I had all the necessary contact information and after the tour for a sneak peek at the Incredible documentary he has put together about this Important history. The two hours with Cristina flew by while she painted a clear picture of the very sobering history of the Jewish people in general and specifically the story of the Mallorcan Conversos and Chuetas through the Middle Ages on this well-paced, organized, fascinating tour. I Love that despite the harrowing, horrifying history, there is now a Jewish presence in Mallorca today, more than 500 years post expulsion. Dani Rotstein and Jewish Majorca have done an Amazing job of gathering this information and arranging these tours to “fight ignorance and intolerance” by educating the world about the Jewish, Converso, and Chueta culture, heritage, and history in Mallorca.

For history, Jewish history & storyteller lovers ✡️

Published on Oct, 2024

This was an engaging walk that took us back in time. I wasn’t sure my friends would appreciate the Jewish history tour, but we all hung on every word from Dani. His storytelling skills brought the history to life and we all walked away with knowledge and individual take aways. I’ll be back for a whole day tour, next time!

Private tour of Mallorca

Published on Sep, 2023

Christina did an excellent job of explaining the history of the Jewish community. We went early morning and there were no crowds. It was our private tour as there were not many people out and about. Highly recommend.