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Algaida town

Central: PlaAlgaidaAbout 30–35 min from Palma

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Living here

Algaida is the main town of a largely rural municipality in the south-west of the Pla, the farming plain at the heart of Mallorca, about 25 kilometres east of Palma on the Ma-15 road to Manacor. It has a Friday market, a primary school, a health unit and its own troupe of traditional dancers, the Cossiers. Everyday village life here comes with Palma and the airport about half an hour away.

The town lies just south of the Ma-15, with the Puig de Randa rising a few kilometres to the south-east; the sanctuaries of Gràcia and Cura and the hermitage of Sant Honorat stand on its slopes and summit. About 6,350 people live in the municipality, which also takes in the villages of Pina and Randa. In the Middle Ages the parish was at nearby Castellitx, and it passed to Algaida in the early 15th century. Castellitx’s small 13th-century church still stands in the fields a few kilometres from the town, and on the Tuesday after Easter people gather there for a pilgrimage and a country outing (pancaritat).

In the centre, the parish church of Sant Pere i Sant Pau has a nave built over the 16th and 17th centuries, a large Baroque altarpiece and the tomb of the humanist Bartomeu Pou. Stone wayside crosses from the 16th to 18th centuries still stand at the corners of the old town, and 17 old windmills survive in and around it, all in private hands. Trains on the branch line from Santa Maria del Camí to Felanitx stopped here from 1897 until it closed in 1967. In the second half of the 20th century, restaurants grew up around the old inns on the Manacor road and made Algaida’s name.

Daily needs are covered in town, with supermarkets, bakeries, butchers, a pharmacy, a bank and a post office, a petrol station by the Ma-15 and a market in the square every Friday. The public health unit on Carrer de Joan Alcover opens on weekdays; out-of-hours care is at the PAC in Llucmajor, and the reference hospital is Son Llàtzer, on the eastern edge of Palma. Children can start at the municipal nursery, Flor de Murta, then move on to the state primary school, CEIP Pare Bartomeu Pou. There is also a municipal music school and a library in the Casal Pere Capellà, and rubbish is collected door to door.

The winter fiestas of Sant Honorat open with bonfires on the evening of 15 January. On the 16th the Cossiers, six dancers with a dama (lady) and a dimoni (devil), dance inside and outside the parish church, and they dance again during the Sant Jaume fiestas, from 19 to 26 July. The dances left the village fiestas in the 1960s and came back in 1973. The Fira d’Algaida, a one-day fair of crafts, music and local produce, is held on the Saturday before 18 October, and there is a crafts fair in May and a Christmas market in December.

Who buys here

The municipality’s population has roughly doubled since 1979, from about 3,000 to about 6,350 in 2025, and most of it lives in or around the town. Its appeal is a working Mallorcan town with its own fiestas and services, away from the resorts, but with Palma, the airport and Son Llàtzer hospital all within about half an hour.

Property

The old centre is made up of terraced village houses built wall to wall along the streets. Towards the edges of town most houses are detached, some with pools. Plenty of people live outside the town altogether: in 2008, about 1,500 of the roughly 4,200 people counted for Algaida lived in scattered houses in the countryside around it. Most of the old windmills keep the base that once served as a home and store. Out of town, get a lawyer to confirm that every building is legal and registered and that any holiday-let licence is in order.

Getting around

Approximate times by car, outside rush hour.

  • 30–35min

    Palma (Cathedral)West along the Ma-15

  • 25–30min

    Palma airportMa-15 towards Palma, then across to the airport

  • 20min

    Hospital Son LlàtzerThe public hospital for this area, on the eastern edge of Palma

  • 15min

    LlucmajorMa-5010; out-of-hours care and the secondary school

  • 25–30min

    S’Arenal beachEast end of the Bay of Palma

Pros and cons

For

  • Palma about 30 minutes away and the airport about 25 to 30
  • Friday market, Sant Honorat and Sant Jaume fiestas with the Cossiers
  • Nursery, primary school, library and health unit in town
  • Puig de Randa and its sanctuaries a short drive away

Against

  • Inland: the beaches at s’Arenal are 25 to 30 minutes' drive
  • No secondary school yet; teenagers travel to Llucmajor
  • At nights and weekends, urgent care means driving to Llucmajor
  • New holiday-let licences are scarce; flats can’t be registered

Questions buyers ask

How do I get to Palma without a car?

TIB bus 403 runs from the Ses Escoles stop in town to Palma’s Estació Intermodal about 12 times on weekdays and 11 at weekends, taking 35 to 40 minutes; ask the driver as you board if you want to get off at Son Llàtzer hospital. Line 401 buses from Manacor also stop at S’Hostal, by the Ma-15 on the north side of town, roughly once an hour.

Is Algaida near the beach?

No. Algaida is inland, in the middle of the island. The beaches at s’Arenal, at the east end of the Bay of Palma, are about 25 to 30 minutes by car, and Es Trenc on the south coast about 35 to 45, depending on which end you head for.

Where do children go to school?

Algaida has a municipal nursery for under-threes and a state infant and primary school, CEIP Pare Bartomeu Pou. For secondary school, pupils go on to IES Llucmajor, about 15 minutes away. In 2024 the Balearic government announced plans for a secondary school in Algaida, so ask the town hall how far it has got.

Which day is market day?

Friday, in the town square. The yearly Fira d’Algaida falls on the Saturday before 18 October; in 2026 it was held on 17 October.

Is holiday letting an option?

Only with a tourist-rental licence, and new ones are scarce. Under the 2025 rules no new flats could be registered for holiday lets in Mallorca, and the limited new places for houses were sold by the Consell de Mallorca to people who had owned the home for at least three years. If rental income matters, buy a property with an existing licence and have a lawyer check it.

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