Books set in Palma, Spain

Mallorca’s capital in two memories: Bernanos’s Palma of the civil war and its purges, and José Carlos Llop’s walled city of childhood.

1 place, 2 books,

2010
Dans la cité engloutie
2010 · José Carlos Llop · memoiralso Mallorca
Palma remembered street by street: the walled city of a childhood, since sunk.
1938
A Diary of My Times
Les Grands Cimetières sous la lune
1938 · Georges Bernanos · essayalso Mallorca
Palma in the civil war: a Catholic royalist watches the purges and breaks with his side.

Updated October 2026

Dans la cité engloutie