A stone bell tower stands over the lane, its bells hanging in open arches, and everything beneath it is flowers and warm stone.

Here is a Mallorca travel poster for lovers of back lanes: Bougainvillea Bell Tower, a painterly view of Valldemossa in full sun, with a bicycle parked by a wall. Put it where a little island warmth would help, a dining corner or the top of the stairs, or send it to whoever first walked you through the village.

What the bells look down on

At the center stands the tower, built of stone, with bells hung in its arched openings, a balcony with a stone railing, a ring of dark green tiles beneath that balcony and a stepped, pointed top; a smaller domed turret keeps it company on one side, and on the other a stone church front carries a round patterned window, a little cross topping its gable. Beneath them the village crowds in, all honey-colored houses, their slatted shutters green and their tile roofs terracotta, one white-plastered house farther back and wooden doors, while to the right a tall house front wears pink bougainvillea from the ground up, next to a drainpipe and a black wall lantern on the house beyond. The lane itself is cobbled and sunlit, with leaf shadows across the nearest stones, clay pots of flowers in white, pink and red down both sides, a round clipped shrub in white bloom, a small pointed evergreen, a bicycle resting against a low wall and two rough steps of stone at the near corner. Behind the roofs rise blue-gray rocky mountains, green on their lower slopes, with dark cypresses and one small pale house, and olive branches with gray-green leaves hang into a vivid blue sky where small white clouds drift here and there. Every part of it is finely detailed, with clear light and shadow, in a retro travel-art spirit.

The cream-white serif lettering reads “Valldemossa”, then “MALLORCA, SPAIN” in small spaced capitals, flanked by a short thin dash on either side.

Good to know before it goes on the wall

• Portrait format: 12″×18″ (30.5 × 45.7 cm), 18″×24″ (45.7 × 61 cm) or 24″×36″ (61 × 91.4 cm). All three stand upright on the wall, never sideways.
• Thick paper, measured at 10.3 mil. Thin and floppy it is not.
• Weight: 189 g/m². A handy number when you compare paper stocks.
• Matte finish. That means the low-sheen kind of paper, not the glossy kind.
• 94% opacity, 104% ISO brightness. Two ratings worth having if you like to know your paper.
• Sourced from Japan, as far as the paper goes. Listed because some buyers ask.
• Poster only. How it hangs, by clips, a hanger or a frame, is left to you.

Who it's for

Three kinds of people stop at this picture: cyclists, for the bike against the wall; gardeners, for the pots and the climbing flowers; and anyone who knows Valldemossa on foot, for the tower. It fits by a back door, over a potting bench or in a guest room. Wrap it for the host who put you up, for a birthday, or for the first anniversary of a honeymoon spent on Mallorca.

Quick answers

Which colors will I see in it?

Honey gold and sand for the stonework, bright blue overhead, dark green on the shutters, terracotta, bougainvillea pink and a blue-gray in the distance. Together they make a warm picture.

Whose bicycle is it?

Nobody appears in the lane, so the rider is left to your imagination. The bike simply waits, as if its owner had stepped indoors for a moment.

Is the lane in sun or in shade?

Mostly sun. Shade from leaves overhead dapples the foreground, and the house fronts farther along stand fully lit, which is what gives the street its depth.

How near is the tower?

Behind the roofs, in the middle of the picture, with the lane and its flower pots in front of it.

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