Walk across the roof of Palma's cathedral

Palma's cathedral, La Seu, stands up on the old sea wall above the bay, where the city's biggest mosque stood until the conquest of 1229. Above the nave its roof is a run of terraces, and they are open to visitors on a guided climb.

The way up is by stairs inside the building, and the visit takes about an hour. It is not one for anybody with vertigo.

On top, the bay is below on one side and the old town on the other, and the cathedral's own stonework is close enough to touch: the bell tower, the flying buttresses standing in rows and the great rose window from the outside.

The inside below was reworked early in the 1900s by Antoni Gaudí, brought in by the bishop. He moved the choir stalls out of the middle of the nave, hung a great canopy over the altar and spent about ten years at it. Not everybody has forgiven him.