The Festival de Pollença 2008
The renown and acclaimed Festival de Pollença starts today with its 47th edition. This year’s programme is launched with the Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi, which is performed by the Orquestra Simfònica […]
World Music Day
Mallorca celebrates the European Day of Music today, June 21st, now also known as World Music Day. The photo shows the Banda Municipal de Música de Palma, performing bits of Carmen […]
Dimonis and Other Wondrous Delights
Folklore in Mallorca is characterized by mellifluous music and ceremonial dances. Dimonis, diables and dracs play their roles in traditional rural fiestas in the Mallorcan country villages. Selva celebrated its traditional Fira de […]
Mediterranean Poetry Festival
A few days after Hay-on-Wye celebrated the Hay Festival, Mallorca looks forward to another, the 10th edition of the Festival de Poesia Mediterrània, which will be celebrated at the Teatre […]
Sharing Food With the Angels
Sunday, March 30th, you have a chance to do as the Mallorcans do. All you have to do is prepare some homemade panades or rubiols and take them to the […]
Vía Crucis
It is Viernes Santo today (Good Friday). Spain celebrates Easter, along with the rest of the Catholic World. In Mallorca, Good Friday is the day for a dramatic reenactment of […]
Día de les Illes Balears 2008
March 1st, 1983, was an important day for the people of the Balearic Islands. That’s 25 years ago today, and near enough eight years after the death of Generalissimo Franco. […]
Happy Chinese New Year
February 7th, i. e. today, marks the beginning of the Year of the Rat, in China and in some other – but not all – parts of Asia. The Chinese […]
El Entierro de la Sardina
The changeover from Carnival to Lent is marked in Mallorca by El Entierro de la Sardina (funeral of the sardine). A mock funeral is staged by some villages with a […]
Sant Antoni
Yesterday saw the blessing of the animals in Felanitx (and other villages) as part of the Sant Antoni celebrations. The blessings are given by the parish vicar with the patron […]
Sant Sebastià in Palma
Mallorca’s capital, Palma de Mallorca, has a patron saint: Sant Sebastià. The saint is honoured every year on January 20th with an extended programme of festivities. The main activities, this […]
Bonfires of the Vanities
I accept with humble defiance that my title today is a bit misleading. Vanities not so much; bonfires, yes, and many. Today is the day of San Antonio, when bonfires […]
Honouring Sant Honorat
Algaida is this lovely small village on the wrong side of the Randa mountain, if you see what I mean. The wrong side in this case is the right side, […]
Three Kings’ Arrival in Mallorca
Tomorrow, January 6th, Spain celebrates the Holiday of the Three Wise Men from the Orient, also known as the Three Kings, or the Feast of Epiphany. But, in true fashion […]
Little Feet
Little feet young boy, shoe size 28, is accompanied by his grandmother, shoe size 39, whilst both look at the Big Friendly Giant‘s big feet, shoe size 97. This footsie […]
The Meeting of the Giants
Felanitx yesterday celebrated its first ever Trobada de Gegants with a congregation of mega-sized giants from 14 villages from around the island of Mallorca. Next Sunday, Felanitx will hold its […]
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