Majorca - Cartuja de Valldemosa

The C 710 continues north from La Granja to another junction, where a road branches off on the right to Valldemosa. The great feature of interest here is the old Carthusian monastery (Cartuja, Charterhouse), originally established in 1399 on the site of a Moorish alcázar and rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, in which Frédéric Chopin and George Sand spent the winter of 1838-39. The rooms they occupied are now open to the public. Here Chopin composed his ''Raindrop Prelude'' and other works, and George Sand gathered impressions for her book ''A Winter on Majorca''.