
The week starts in Manacor, Mallorca's second city and the hub of its east. Every Monday morning the centre around the great neo-Gothic church of Mare de Déu dels Dolors and Plaça de Ramon Llull fills with one of the island's largest weekly markets — 300-plus stalls drawing shoppers from Manacor and the nearby resorts of Porto Cristo and Calas de Mallorca. Manacor is known for furniture, leather and artificial pearls, and the market reflects it: olive-wood kitchenware, leather shoes and bags, and imitation pearls share the streets with the staples of any Mallorcan market — fruit and vegetables, nuts and sweets, cheese, olive oil, wine and sobrassada. It runs roughly 08:00 to 13:30; come early for produce and parking.
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