4 Best Sights in Soller, Ibiza and the Balearic Islands

A minute's walk from the Plaça de la Constitució, along Sóller's main shopping arcade, brings you to this charming museum, where Moderniste style comes to life. In the lovingly restored family rooms on the first floor of this imposing town house, you can see how Sóller's well-to-do embraced the Art Deco style: the ornate furniture and furnishings, the stained glass and ceramic tile, and the carved and painted ceilings all helped announce their status in turn-of-the-century Mallorcan society. Upstairs, Can Prunera also houses a small collection of paintings by early modern masters, including Man Ray, Santiago Rusiñol, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró. The garden is an open-air museum in its own right, with sculptures by José Siguiri, Josep Sirvent, and other Mallorcan artists.

This scenic little mountain village nestled amid lemon and orange groves, 4 km (2½ miles) north of Sóller, is a worthy scenic detour. Much of its appeal emanates from the narrow pedestrianized streets, blond-stone houses speckled with bougainvillea and topped with red-tiled roofs, and views over the Sóller valley.

Here's a sound you don't often hear in the interior of Mallorca: the rush of falling water. The irrigation system in these gardens nourishes around 40 varieties of trees, climbers, and flowering shrubs. A 17th-century manor house furnished with antiques and painted panels has a collection of original documents that chronicles the history of the estate.

Maintained by the Fundació Tren de l'Art, these galleries have two small but remarkable collections—one of engravings by Miró, whose grandfather was born in Sóller, and the other of ceramics by Picasso.