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Convent de Santa Clara
CONVENT
(Carrer de Can Fonollar 2; 9am-12.30pm & 4.15-6.15pm)
This church is a gloomy baroque
affair. It was closed for renovation when we were here, but, in any event, locals prefer to
pop into the adjacent building, because the handful of cloistered nuns maintain a
centuries-old tradition of baking sweets for sale.
You will see a
torno,
a kind of timber turnstile set in a window. Ring for a nun, order
what you want and put money into the turnstile. This swivels around and out come your
bocaditos de almendra
(almond nibbles) or
rollitos de anís
(aniseed rolls), at €3 for
200g.
Arc de sa Drassana
HISTORIC BUILDING
(S'Hort del Rei)
A grand arch, the Arc de sa Drassana is one of the city's few reminders of
its Arab past. When the Riera, the city's river, coursed along what is now Passeig d'es
Born and the sea lapped the city walls, this was the seaward entrance into the Arab
palace and early shipyards.
