The bay of Palma is one of the most touristified places of Mallorca. Not far from hotels, parking lots and plastic sun beds, the rocky coast on the east end of the island served as a quarry almost eight hundred years ago; signs of this extraction process are still visible today.
What goes unnoticed are the consequences of another extractive activity: through the years, the collection of seashells, rocks and sea urchin skeletons led to the almost-total disappearance of sea urchins.