Read with silent "L", Palma de Mallorca is the largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It's a separate island away from the famous city of Madrid and Barcelona. This makes it easily a favorite cruise stop as you'd have to make an extra effort just to go to this island when on a land tour. In this port of call, you'll be docked at the port and this means that you can go down directly to land without having to ride a tender boat. As a little added info, tender boats are used to ferry cruise passengers from the cruise to the port in places where the waters are shallow which prohibits cruise ships from entering or going near the port to dock.
