The Royal Palace of La Almudaina stands opposite Palma Cathedral in Palma, Mallorca. It began as an Arab fortress, known at the time of the conquest as the Zuda. King James II of Majorca launched a program to rebuild the alcázar into a royal palace in 1298, and rebuilding started in 1305. Work was carried out between 1309 and 1314. Charles V ordered the upper floor built in the first half of the sixteenth century.
The palace was the seat of the fourteenth-century Majorcan kingdom and passed to the Crown of Aragon under Peter IV in 1349. Philip II assigned the Tinell to the Real Audiencia and put the General Captaincy of the Islands in the rest of the building.
The Great Hall, St Anne's Chapel and the baths survive. The palace is one of the official residences of the Spanish royal family.
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