La Almudaina is the Royal Castle or Palace of the city of Palma. The current castle was modified from the Muslim Alcázar. Work started in 1281 and continued until 1343, during the reigns of James II, the son of James I the Conqueror, Sancho I and James III. The Almudaina was the seat of the prosperous independent kingdom of Majorca in the 14th century, during the reigns of the aforementioned monarch and his successors Sancho I and James III, until it passed to the Crown of Aragón with Peter IV in 1349. In its walls, it distils the history of the islands from the time of the megalithic settlements.
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