Hot Chocolate Heaven
In Palma’s Casc Antic (Old Town), between Plaça Santa Eulàlia and Plaça Major, you can find Mallorca’s best Xocolateria, C’an Juan de S’Aigo. Thick hot chocolate is served with Ensaïmadas […]
La Seu
La Seu is the Mallorcan name for the splendid Gothic cathedral in Palma de Mallorca. Begun in 1230, the cathedral was not finished until 1601. Most people look up to […]
Gothic Cloisters
There are many monasteries and convents on the island of Mallorca, and some cloisters. There is little doubt in my mind that the finest cloisters are to be found at […]
The Arab Baths
The year 707 A. D. marked the beginning of the Medina Mayurka, the settlement that once had been Palmaria Palmensis and that today is known as Palma de Mallorca. No […]
Raixa, Beauty And the Consell de Mallorca
One of the most beautiful manor houses in Mallorca has to be Raixa, on the foot of the Tramuntana mountain range, in the municipality of Bunyola. The finca was founded […]
The Windmill Trail
Windmills for bringing up water for irrigation purposes were introduced to Mallorca in 1847 by a Dutch engineer, Paul Bouvy Schorenberg. The first mill of that type was erected in […]
Water Cures
Johan Blaeu published his Atlas Maior in 1665. A magnificent piece of Earth View, some 350 years before Google Earth. Already at that time, the Baños de Sant Joan de […]
Water Works
World Water Day was celebrated two days ago, on March 20th. Water is probably the most vital of resources for life on Earth. Water management has brought out some ingenuity […]
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 […]
A Little Bit of Penitence
Easter in Spain used to be and still is all about penitence and repentance. Hence the Easter processions. In Mallorca, Confraternidades of all colours and confessional inclinations (as long as […]
Voluntas Virtus Veritas
Ramon Llull (or Raimundus Lullus) was a very eminent writer, thinker and philosopher. You ought to know a thing or two about him (perhaps you do). Llull is considered one […]
Fame in Valldemossa
Mallorca’s number one tourist attraction appears to be the Real Cartuja in Valldemossa, the erstwhile Dominican monastery where Frederic Chopin and George Sand spent their historic Winter in Mallorca, almost […]
March 11th, 2004 – Da Pacem Domine
March 11th, 2004, four years ago today, saw the deadliest terrorist attack that Spain has seen in peacetimes, ever. 14 bombs had been placed on four suburban trains, heading for […]
A Constant Trickle
We are looking here at a small part of a large underground system of tunnels collecting water for irrigation purposes. It is said that these tunnels were possibly first built […]
Open Doors at the Consolat de Mar
The Consolat de Mar building on Passeig Sagrera in Palma de Mallorca dates from the early 17th Century. Originally, it was the official seat of the Maritime authorities, regulating shipping […]
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. […]
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