3 Best Sights in Mallorca, Ibiza and the Balearic Islands

The Fundació Robert Graves opened this museum dedicated to Deià's most famous resident in the house he built in 1932. The seaside cottage is a shrine: Graves's furniture and books, personal effects, and the press he used to print many of his works are all preserved.

A minute's walk from the Plaça de la Constitució, along Sóller's main shopping arcade, brings you to this charming museum, where Modernist 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 stunning estate belonged to Austrian archduke Luis Salvador, who arrived here as a young man and fell in love with the place. He acquired vast tracts of land along the northwestern coast, building miradors (lookouts) at the most spectacular points but leaving the pristine beauty intact. Below the mirador, you can see Sa Foradada, a rock peninsula pierced by a huge archway, where the archduke moored his yacht. Now a museum, the estate house contains the archduke's collections of Mediterranean pottery and ceramics, Mallorcan furniture, and paintings. The garden is lovely. From May through September, the Deià International Festival holds classical concerts here (see  www.dimf.com for the schedule).