What are gardens that seem so much taken from Granada in the very heart of Palma, at the foot of the Almudaina and a few steps from the Born and the sea? And even more so when the elderly people of Ciutat still remember that right here, in Hort del Rei, there were the Líric theatre, the Alhambra hotel, the mythical Riskal café... The truth, however, is that with the demolition of those buildings, what had already been a green area in the Middle Ages was recovered, only this time it was not done for the enjoyment of a monarch, but for the entire citizenry – and tourists, of course. We recall the history of Hort del Rei as sixty years have passed since the project that the architect Gabriel Alomar Esteve made in 1966 and which envisaged the recovery of that space.

They are two of the most important figures for understanding the current character of Palma, and they have much in common: significant education, time spent abroad, and a broad understanding of the context that surrounded them when, in the mid-20th century, they laid the foundations of this city as we know it today. However, there were also notable differences between the architect Josep Ferragut and the urban planner Gabriel Alomar. It is precisely these opposing viewpoints, despite their friendship, that have prompted the playwright Josep Ramon Cerdà to give voice to an unlikely encounter between the two on the night before Ferragut's death. This imagined dialogue is the twin of the play. The architect, which premieres on November 7th at the Teatre del Mar under the Produccions de Ferro label and starring Xisco Segura and Miquel Àngel Torrens.