The six palms
Spirals opening into vault — civil Gothic distilled.
Diego Delso — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kritzolina — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kritzolina — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Foto Fitti — CC BY-SA 3.0
Palma's came first and purer (six spirals, sea light); Valencia's is the grander complex with UNESCO rank. Truly they are one style's two lessons — seeing either explains both.
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Sa Llotja is Valencia's Lonja's sister and elder teacher: Mallorca's merchant exchange, built by Guillem Sagrera (1426-47) when the island knotted Mediterranean trade — its hall among civil Gothic's purest spaces: just six spiral columns bearing the sky as stone palms without buttressed walls, sea light crossing the great windows. Outside, the Angel of Trade guards the portal — the merchant city's emblem — with sea-sprites at the corners. Today it is a free exhibition space open by season, and its closure loses you little of the essence: façade and surrounding quarter rank with old Palma's finest. Twenty pure minutes between cathedral and seafront — a jewel of the route, not the journey's goal.
Spirals opening into vault — civil Gothic distilled.
The portal's guardian, merchant Mallorca's emblem.
Plaça de la Llotja, 07012 Palma