Guided tours. Mallorca

Guided tours. Mallorca
shore excursion

martes, 14 de julio de 2009

Tour guides of Mallorca ( Majorca )

Please remember this: tour guides in Mallorca and Spain are considered professionals and must be licensed to perform their services. Tour guides in Mallorca and other European countries earn their license via official exams given by the tourist authorities regions or provinces. Tourism is the Mallorca´s and Spain's leading industries. To ensure high standards and to protect you, the consumer, from wherever in the world you hail, Spanish legislation, both national and local, defines the tourism professions and requires that hotels, travel agencies, travel agency directors and individual operators, such as tour guides and tour escorts, possess a license. On the job in Mallorca, tour guides always wear or carry their license with them, to be shown upon request to the authorities. Licensed tour guides in Mallorca do not need to look over their shoulder to see whether the police are coming. Individuals performing tourist guide services in Mallorca without a license, in virtually whatever guise they assume, are breaking the law.

Surfing the web today, you find numerous sites for Mallorca tour guide services offered by excellent or native English-speakers who qualify themselves as long-time residents of the city, insiders, experts, historians, art historians, archaeologists, students, teachers.

Please beware: if these individuals don't state they are licensed Majorca tour guides, you can be sure they are not legally certified to perform tour guide services in Mallorca

domingo, 21 de junio de 2009

Palma city tour and countryside Valldemossa


Join us to this tour to discover more of the Island. Palma awaits you all year round. Get to know the most important monuments of the city by driving through the sea promenade to the best look out of the city Bellver Castle to enjoy the best view from top of the hill. Palma is an amazing city to visit. Its Roman, Moslem and Christian past make it unique. With this tour you not only get general idea of this city but also we will take you peaceful mallorca countryside , you will discover the rich heritage of its buildings, squares, palaces, courtyards and gardens, like the cathedral, the Almudaina Palace, the city’s ancient walls, the Lonja building, or the incredible Cartuja de Valldemossa.Charming village of Valldemossa is only 30 minutes drive away from Palma, nestled in the mountains on the western part of the island.This small village is a jumble of cobbled lanes and houses with walls totaling up the sunny slopes. The place ideal for writers and music composers seeking inspiration. No wonder then that Frederic Chopin and George Sand spent the romantic winter of 1838-1839 in Valldemossa´s Carthusian Monastery wih its beautiful gardens and 17th and 18th century cloisters. A mini piano concert (10 minutes) in the Palace of the King Sancho is organized for the group and it is included in the visit at this unique tourist attraction.
Contact Private Guide Miguel Corral