Garden Misericòrdia

What used to be the city's botanical garden in the 19th century is now one of the city's most charming public gardens. The two parks into which it has been divided shade the walls of the Misericordia Cultural Centre, originally a charitable institution located next to the General Hospital, to which the garden used to provide medicinal plants.

Visitors must enter the complex through a regionalist-style gateway built in the 1930s, when the most modern garden of the complex was created. The pathways are wide and run between spacious planters, where Mediterranean shrubs share space with a collection of sculptures that is often updated. A row of banana trees is one unique feature of the garden, which is the perfect complement to the library housed in the building.

At the foot of the complex's high surrounding walls is the oldest garden, which was fully renovated at the end of the 19th century as part of a project by Majorcan architect Joan Guasp, before then being renovated a second time a century later. Despite these radical changes, it has retained two of its most characteristic elements: the surrounding wall, featuring a gate and pilasters with capitals decorated with floral motifs, and the impressive ficus macrophylla, a must-see for plant lovers.