Petra Attractions

The main route continues from Puig de Randa on C 715 and after passing Montuiri, a picturesque little town off the beaten tourist track, comes, soon after Villafranca de Bonany, to the turn-off for Petrá. This was the birthplace of the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra (1713-84), who was active as a missionary in the Mexican peninsula of Baja California and the American states of California and Texas. He founded a number of mission stations, including two which developed into the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. He is commemorated in Petrá by a series of majolica panels which can be found in a narrow street beside the church of San Bernardino, in the Museo Serra, and in the house nearby where he was born.