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Plaça de Santa Eulàlia,

Palma

Plaça de Santa Eulàlia
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Plaça de Santa Eulàlia is one of Palma's oldest squares, and the church at its centre carries more history than its sober Gothic facade suggests. Santa Eulàlia was built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, shortly after the Christian conquest, and served as Mallorca's royal church before the cathedral was finished: Jaume II was crowned here as the island's first king in 1276.

In 1435, the entire Jewish community of Palma was brought inside and baptised by force. For generations afterwards, their descendants, the chuetas, continued to worship here, trying to prove their Catholic devotion to a society that remained suspicious of them.

The street to the left of the church, Carrer de l'Argenteria, was their ghetto, lined with silversmiths' workshops well into the 1990s. Every Christmas, the Canto de la Sibil·la is still performed inside, a chant recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

VoiceMap's Jewish history tours use the square as a closing point, connecting the 1435 conversion to the centuries of discrimination that followed and the chueta identity that survives today.
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