Jewish Palma de Mallorca - walking to hidden places

Private walking tour

Meeting Point Old City Palma. The Jewish quarter itinerary is designed to offer tourist,visitors or residents a chance to discover one of the most important Jewish quarters in the medieval Mediterranean, inhabited by sages,doctors, astronomers and cartographers Jafuda and Abraham Cresques.

This itinerary is designed to last approximately two hours in order to guarantee suitable management, with the aim of highlighting certain especially relevant aspects to be observed by the official guides who will lead the tour.

The best tour  of Palma de Mallorca for your group could be the incredible Jewish Quarter 'el call ' in the old Alfama of Medina Majurca.

You will imagine how the ' xuetes' (Converted Jews) used to live and how they were
organized in social levels Those of the 'orella alta '  (High class) or those of
'orella baixa' (Lower class). They  lived in the ghetto until  the last pogrom
(1391). Then they were forced to convert  by the Spanish Inquisition . Some of them
continued as 'Cripto-jew', and it was  not until the end of the 17th century
that the label 'xueta' was truly  earned and the whole community was properly Catholic.
The Xuetes have historically been stigmatized and until the first half of the
20th century practiced, and were seen obligated to practice, strict endogamy.
Today, an estimated 18,000 people in the island carry Xueta surnames