The interment of the great lords who were slain in the vanguard was conducted with all the pomp that was possible. A stone pillar surmounted by an iron cross now marks the spot. On one side is the date, September 12, 1229; on another the date of erection, 1884; and on a third the arms of Barcelona impaling those of Moncada (_gules, four bezants in pale_). It is on the left-hand side of the road, just halfway between Palma and Andraix, under the shade of a fine old pine-tree.
The scene of these military operations is exceedingly beautiful. The spurs from the main chain of mountains by the western sea are well covered with pine and ilex forests, and rise one behind the other. From them spurs covered with olives and carob-trees and an undergrowth of bright green crops and grass slope down to the sea. Some of the spurs form a lower chain, called the Sierra de Burguesa, overlooking Porto Pi and the capital.
The exposed bay of Palma, fifteen miles across, has the little harbour of Porto Pi on the west side, and the city of Mallorca, afterwards called Palma, in its centre. In Moorish times the city was an important commercial port, with a great fleet of piratical galleys. It had a strong wall and ditch, and eight gates. The bed of a mountain torrent formed the moat on the west side. On the sea-face there were three gates: one leading to the mole, called ‘the Gate of Chains’; another to the west, called _Balbelet_, leading from the _Dar-as-Sanâá_ or arsenal, corrupted by the Catalans into ‘_Atarazana_.’ In the east of the sea-wall was the _Hicolbelet_. On the right of the Gate of Chains, within the walls, stood the Moorish palace, which appears to have been a small town in itself, called _El Medînah_, and by the Spaniards to this day _Almudaina_. On the east side there was a gate near the south-east angle, since closed up. Near the north-east angle was the _Belalcofol_, called by the Spaniards ‘_Pintada_.’ On the north side was the _Barbolet_, now the _Puerto de Jesus_. The Moors had two gates on the side of the torrent, facing west, the _Belalbelet_, since closed, and the gate of Porto Pi, now called _Catalina_. Altogether there seem to have been eight gates in the Moorish walls. Besides the _Almudaina_ there was a strong castle near the south-east angle of the town, which was given to the Knights Templars, and near the centre stood the chief mosque. Of other public buildings in Moorish times there is no notice.