Modern Art Inside a Renaissance Wall
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Modern Art Inside a Renaissance Wall

Es Baluard built its galleries into the city's sixteenth-century fortifications. The art is good. The roof terrace is better.

JJ
Co-founder · Palma
Dec 3, 2025
4 min read

The architects kept the bastion. They poured concrete inside it. The result is a museum that looks, from the harbor, like a fortress that swallowed a gallery.

Inside: Miró, Picasso, Barceló, Tàpies. Outside, on the roof, a view of the cathedral and the bay that justifies the ticket alone.

"The Mallorcan light is its own substance — denser, somehow, than anywhere else."

JJ
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