The Seven Pillars of Science
If ever you have visited Ramon Llull’s tomb, inside the Basilica de Sant Francesc in Palma de Mallorca, you may have found yourself confronted with seven beautifully carved pieces of […]
The Fira del Llibre
The 2010 Fira del Llibre (Book Fair) opened in Palma de Mallorca yesterday in the Passeig des Born. The fair will be open daily from 10h00 to 14h00 and from […]
The International Day of the Book
Today, Mallorca celebrates the Dia de Sant Jordi, elsewhere known as International Book Day. Schools all over the island will have bookshops coming in and setting up their displays. In […]
Going, Going, Gone
Exciting news for all who are interested in Mallorca and the Baleares. Salas de Subastas Soler y Llach, a Spanish auction house in Barcelona, is doing an elaborate antique book […]
The Festa De L’Estendard
You may have wondered occasionally why some streets in Mallorca’s towns and pueblos are called 31 de Desembre (31 de Diciembre). It somehow does not quite feel coherent that a […]
Imprisoned In Cabrera
Two hundred years ago in 1808 Spain, with the help of Britain, won a decisive battle within the Peninsular War against Napoleon Bonaparte‘s France. After the French army’s defeat at […]
Language And Literature
In 1959, during the reign of Francisco Franco and with Spanish culture at a great distance from its European neighbours or its South American cousins, the Spanish author Camilo José […]
Arxiduc Lluís Salvador d’Àustria
The Consell de Mallorca is busy preparing Saturday’s Diada de Mallorca celebrations (September 12th). On that occasion, a number of honours will be bestowed upon personalities, ordinary people and institutions […]
Konstantinos Kavafis
There is no evidence that the eminent Greek poet, Konstantinos Kavafis (Constantine Petrou Cavafy, 1863-1933), has ever been to the island of Mallorca or to the island capital, Palma. But, […]
The First Major Female Poet In Catalàn
Maria Antònia Salvà i Ripoll is considered as the first major woman bard in the history of poetry written in the Catalàn language. Salvà Ripoll (1869-1958) was Mallorcan. Her own […]
The Prince’s Son From Felanitx
In 1956, Robert Graves published a compelling translation of George Sand’s Winter in Majorca (Valldemosa Edition, Mallorca, 1956). In a footnote to the book, he claimed that Christopher Columbus, the […]
The Mallorcan Castells
I had the good fortune to be lent a book recently that was published in 1910 by no other than the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria, called Die Felsenfesten Mallorcas […]
A Book Lover’s Treasure Trove
El Bazar del Libro in Palma de Mallorca is a book lover’s treasure trove. It is one of Palma’s institutions and a bit of a legend really. No matter what […]
The Atlas Maior By Joan Blaeu
Long before the advent of photography, aeroplanes, rockets and satellites, human imagination was relying on clever people’s craftmanship such as carthography when it came to envisioning a picture of the […]
The Palma Book Fair
This year’s Fira del Llibre (Book Fair) can be enjoyed in Palma’s Passeig des Born for two more days, today and tomorrow. A visit is recommended if you like reading, […]
The Sun And the Moon
Most people head to the Mediterranean for the sun. Sun, sea, Sangria and a bit of sex perhaps. But you will find, if you talk to the locals here, that […]
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