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Extract from the Valldemossa Travel Guides:
Some 10km
southwest of Dei
along the C710, the ancient and intriguing hill town of
VALLDEMOSSA
is actually best approached from the south, where, after squeezing through a narrow, wooded defile, the road from Palma enters a lovely valley, whose tiered and terraced fields ascend to the town, a sloping jumble of rusticated houses and monastic buildings backclothed by the mountains. The origins of Valldemossa date to the early fourteenth century, when the asthmatic King Sancho built a royal palace here in the hills where the air was easier to breathe. Later, in 1399, the palace was given to Carthusian monks from Tarragon...
read the whole Valldemossa Travel Guides...
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