Inca

Dating back to Roman times, Inca owes its original importance to its privileged situation on the confluence of principal valleys leading from the western mountains towards the island`s fertile central plains, and also to its lying halfway on the old road from Palma to the northern port of Alcudia.

Now known (at least to Majorcans) as the `City of Leather`. Inca owes its latter day growth to a thriving leather industry and factories producing good quality shoes.
Being close to La Raiguer, the island`s best wine-producing area, the town`s wine-cellars have achieved some fame, and the bodegas in the centre of town also serve as restaurants, preparing typical Majorcan food at reasonable prices.

Thursday is market day in Inca and is both lively and second in size only to Palma`s. The town boasts a stately bull-ring, and an impressive - for a small town - football stadium known as Nou Camp. Constancia, the local football team is a club with a long, chequered history that has, from time to time, played in the higher Spanish divisions.

Visitors to Inca can enjoy the walk east from the town and up to the Sanctuary of Santa Magdalena, situated on a steep 300 metre-high hill. Climbers are rewarded with fine, far-reaching views of the surrounding low-lying countryside (Inca itself is only some 30 metres above sea-level) and over the central plains of Majorca.