Museum Vidre Gordiola

The Gordiola glass factory has based its success on incorporating new glass manufacture technologies and machinery while at the same time preserving a manual process, glassblowing, that disappeared gradually with the advent of the industrial revolution in Europe.

The origins of this workshop date back to the early 18^th century (1719), when Blas Rigas requested a permit to install a glass-manufacturing furnace in Palma. The furnace was eventually transferred to the Gordiola family. All the successive generations of this family and the craftsmen in the workshop managed to create and produce highly original pieces by combining the most varied influences, which yielded the genuine Majorcan glass produced by this workshop.

The factory is on the road to Manacor, in Algaida, in a historicist building that recreates the outside of the Almudaina castle in Palma. It includes the furnaces, the glass shop and the museum of the family collection.

There are guided tours and demonstrations of the art of the master glassmakers.