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Palma Aquarium
Palma Aquarium is a commercial Public aquarium, aquarium and park that first opened in 2007 in Palma, Majorca, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. The aquarium is the property of Coral World International. The aquarium is from Playa de Palma beach, and includes 55 tanks which are home to over 700 different species from the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. One tank, "Big Blue" is deep, the deepest shark tank in Europe, and it also contains the largest collection of live coral in Europe The park was awarded "Best Business Initiative in the Balearics 2007", awarded by ''Actualidad Económica'' magazine, and was awarded the "2007 Accessibility Prize" by the Consell de Mallorca. The aquarium organises environmentally focused activities, and takes part in protection and conservation campaigns. Palma Aquarium has more than 400,000 visitors every year, with an average of over 1000 visitors a day. 50% of its visitors are local and national, while the rest are mainly of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palma De Mallorca
Palma (; ; also known as ''Palma de Mallorca'', officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. , Palma de Mallorca Airport, Palma Airport serves over 29 million passengers per year. History Palma was founded as a Ancient Rome, Roman camp upon the remains of a Talaiotic settlement. The city was subjected to several Vandal raids during the fall of the Western Roman Empire, then reconquered by the Byzantine Empire, then colonised by the Moors (who called it ''Medina Mayurqa'') and, in the 13th century, by James I of Aragon. Roman period After the conquest of Mallorca, the city was loosely incorporated into the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
