Mallorca :: Comparisson reports

There are numerous modern houses with balconies on Carrer de Sant Feliu. On the left, at number 20, is a house with a well-worked facade, featuring some sculpted faces in the first molding, thus, the name this street used to have before (Carrer de les Carasses or Faces Street). Over the door’s lintel is a shield and a lion with the inscription: EUNDO. There’s another inscription in the arquitrave. The attic windows have their columns, in style with the rest of the house, supported on corbels and elongated molding. The eave and patio are modern. The building in front, at number 13, has two beautiful “coronelles” windows on its second floor, almost as many as on the Burgues’ house though, unfortunately, converted into a balcony with a small pillar and the remains of another window.

   

Next, also on the left, is a small square in front of Sant Feliu Chapel. In front of the latter and to the right is the Burgues’ house, a large building with a facade made of stone blocks, six “coronelles” windows on the first floor and four Gothic windows on the mezzanine floor on the left, with small angels on the sides. Thin molding separates the floors on the facade. The facade is topped by 22 small rounded arches with columns which serve to support the double-beamed eave. Above the large half-point arch in the portal is a magnificent, well-crafted shield. In the patio, an old staircase has been bricked up, and there is another entrance, also closed, but which allows you to see some very pretty capitals which support the gothic arches at the entrance. To the right is a very graceful hall supported by corbels and with a Gothic door. On the wall in front of the entrance are three old shields and, above, opening onto the patio, is a very well preserved Gothic mullion window. Small arches similar to those on the facade surrounding the finish. Inside is a large hall with a coffered ceiling which has been whitewashed, but we can see the Gothic carvings and a small Gothic door. This house, one of the prettiest in the city belonged to Mr. Francesc Burgues and hosted Emperor Carlos V on his first visit to Mallorca.

To the left of Carrer de Sant Feliu and next to the church with the same name, Carrer de Sant Gaietà begins, with the Gradolís’ house on the very corner. It has an old “coronella” window and vestiges of two others, as well as a long attic with octagonal columns holding up the eave.

We have already spoken about the Morell house on the right. The portal on this side is precisely the one that is always open, and, with pleasure, we can contemplate the hallway with two rows of arches made of marble from Solleric and its patio with the gallery and staircase with three very elegant arches. To the left is Sant Gaietà Church, and, in front, Carrer d’en Cifre begins, descending town to the Born."

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria.Las Baleares por la palabra y el grabado. Majorca: City of Palma. Ed. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares. Palma de Mallorca. 1982.