The Font de la Princesa
The Font de les Tortugues in the Plaça Joan Carles I in Palma de Mallorca used to be known as the Font de la Princesa. The fountain was built in […]
The Pebre Bord Tradition
In the past, let’s say a hundred years ago, or even only fifty, Mallorca’s food consumption was almost completely satisfied from home grown produce. In fact, when we came to […]
The Església de Santa Caterina de Sena
The Església de Santa Caterina de Sena in Palma de Mallorca is a church dating from the 17th century, built in the style of Italian Baroque. The church is worthy […]
The Diada de Mallorca
Whilst Santa Ponça is still busy celebrating its Festes del Rei en Jaume, Palma de Mallorca is in the middle of celebrating the Diada de Mallorca and the constitution of […]
D-Day in Santa Ponça
Santa Ponça is busy celebrating the Festas del Rei en Jaume. This year is the 781st anniversary of Jaume I’s reconquista. September 9th, 1229, is said to be the day […]
Graveyards
In the past, parish churches in Mallorcan pueblos were the place where the dead were buried, right in the middle of the place of worship. Several hundred years ago, village […]
Estancos
Estancos in Spain are what one would otherwise call a tobacconist shop but, tobacco is only half the story. It all started in 1636, when Spanish King Felipe IV issued […]
The Creu Dels Mort in Sineu
In every single Mallorcan pueblo, village and town one can find Creus (crosses) that adorn crossroad intersections. A particular fine specimen can be found on Palma’s Avingudas, not far from […]
The End Of Summer
A steep decline in air temperatures here in Mallorca over the last few days may indicate what the calendar already suggests: the end of Summer is approaching. Whilst a few […]
Intus Est, Qui Me Regit
The sundial in the photo (above) adorns the Esglèsia de Sant Agustí in Felanitx. The sundial is not the oldest to be found in the town of Felanitx, but it […]
Weather Vane
Abraham Cresques and his son Jehuda Cresques are two eminent cartographers of maritime maps and portolan charts from the 14th century. Their most famous single work may well be the […]
The Esglèsia de Santa Eulàlia
After the Catalan conquest in 1229, Palma de Mallorca was divided into four parishes; one of them being the Parròquia de Santa Eulàlia. The church has recently undergone an extensive […]
Palma Courtyards
The patios (courtyards) in Palma are amongst Mallorca’s finest attractions. Usually, patios are closed to the public, except at the occasion of Corpus Christi in June, when a number of […]
The Sleeping Beauty
I am not at all an expert in matters of the Catholic church but, wanting or not, one is quite inevitably engulfed with matters of church traditions in a country […]
The Claustro de Sant Antoniet
The Claustro de Sant Antoni de Viana in Palma de Mallorca, commonly known as Sant Antoniet, originally belonged to a church and a convent, built at around 1727. Large parts […]
Palma’s Parc de la Mar
The Parc de la Mar between Palma’s Cathedral and the seafront was in the planning process for well over ten years, as of the late 60s. First, much controversy had […]
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