Travellers with children rarely get to see Spain in all its glory. Usually, business is limited to surveys of well-known places near resorts. But since the architecture of this country deserves attention, we recommend visiting the Poble Espanyol open-air museum in Palma de Mallorca. It presents copies of many architectural landmarks in Spain. Moreover, the copies are not miniature but slightly reduced compared to the original. Take time to visit this museum with your child: this way, you can see many of the country's monuments without tiring journeys and crowds of tourists.
Mallorca's Spanish countryside resembles an ordinary old town, with its quiet streets winding through low-rise buildings. The only difference is that many of the buildings are world-famous. One street, for example, is a replica of Granada's Alhambra Palace. The reduction in scale has not resulted in a loss of detail: the Alhambra is reproduced faithfully.
The Spanish Village Museum covers essential examples of the architecture of the different Spanish provinces. There are 100 buildings on display, including the El Greco house in Toledo, the San Antonio church in Madrid and the bell tower of St Catalina in Valencia. Some of them can be seen from the inside. Craftsmen and tradespeople occupy some of the buildings. You can watch a blacksmith or glassblower at work and buy their products.
At 850 meters from the museum is the original of another architectural monument — Bellver Castle. If the journey into the past did not tire the child, visit this castle with him, where the Museum of the History of Palma de Mallorca now operates. Note that there is another Spanish village in Barcelona. Unlike the museum in Mallorca, it contains examples of typical architecture from different parts of Spain.
