{"id":2364421,"date":"2026-04-08T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2364421"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:52:15","slug":"half-a-million-euro-renovation-of-the-royal-familys-palace-in-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/half-a-million-euro-renovation-of-the-royal-familys-palace-in-palma\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a million-euro renovation of the Royal Family’s palace in Palma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Wednesday next week, work will start on renovation of the Marivent Palace<\/a>, the Royal Family’s residence in Palma<\/strong>. Costing half a million euros, the work is scheduled to take six months, though it won’t be completed until December.<\/p>\n

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There will be a break between July 10 and August 30. Although King Felipe<\/a><\/strong>, Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia are typically only in residence for around ten days in the summer, the Queen Mother, Sofia, is usually in Mallorca for a longer period.<\/p>\n

Commissioned by the painter Juan de Saridakis<\/strong>, the palace was built between 1923 and 1925. His widow donated the property to the then Provincial Council on the understanding that it would be used as a museum and be open to the public. In 1973, the Council ceded it to Juan Carlos<\/strong>, who became king after Franco’s death in 1975. The Saridakis estate sued for non-compliance with the terms, but the palace remained in the hands of the provincial authorities, now the Balearic Government<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The renovation is therefore being organised by the ministry for the presidency, which also oversees ongoing maintenance. It is acting on technical reports which point to deterioration. There is erosion<\/strong>, a consequence of the palace’s proximity to the sea, while there hasn’t been renovation for 25 years.<\/p>\n

The work is said to be straightforward, but a large number of improvements are required<\/strong>, such as to a disused ceramic fountain, “which presents an image of neglect”. Tiles, doors need replacing; a wall and walkway have been damaged by tree roots; machinery and pipework for the two pools need updating. These are examples of what has to be done.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.majorcadailybulletin.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday next week, work will start on renovation of the Marivent Palace, the Royal Family’s residence in Palma. Costing half a million euros, the work is scheduled to take six months, though it won’t be completed until December. There will be a break between July 10 and August 30. Although King Felipe, Queen Letizia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2364422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[459422,420773,308544,459423,459424,459425],"class_list":["post-2364421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-balearic-government","tag-king-felipe","tag-latest-headlines","tag-marivent-palace","tag-palma-mallorca","tag-spain-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Half-a-million-euro-renovation-of-the-Royal-Familys-palace-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364423,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364421\/revisions\/2364423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}