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Mallorca

Mallorca

Wildfires

There were at least half a dozen of uncontrolled forest fires in Mallorca over the last three to four weeks. More than 950 hectares of countryside were destroyed in the areas […]

Fiestas & Festivals

Civis Pollentinus Sum

These days, Alcúdia is celebrating the Festes de Sant Jaume, as are Santanyí, Binissalem, Calvià, Manacor, Algaïda and Muro. It’s a shame really that we can’t be everywhere at the […]

Ecology

Rice-Growing in Mallorca

I am constantly amazed about things one can find in Mallorca that I had never imagined to find here. Like rice-growing, for instance. Believe it or not, rice was cultivated […]

Animals

The Nibbling Wonder Fish

Every now and then, you pass by somewhere in, let’s say, a place like Palma, and there is something that you had not noticed before. Perhaps it was not there before […]

History

18 July 1936

July 18th, 1936, was a fateful day, when the Spanish Guerra Civil (civil war) began 75 years ago today. Actually, the putsch had started the day before, on the 17th […]

Animals

Oyster Beds in Mallorca

Yesterday, my friend Lluís asked me quite nonchalantly if I liked oysters. As it happens, I do. Mind you, I did not think that now, July, was the best time […]

History

Maioric Regi Munus

Llucmajor is historically important for a date in 1349 when a battle was fought at the Camp de Sa Batalla near the village between King Jaume III and his brother-in-law, […]

Beaches

Gone With The Wind

Whilst I was busy taking a few dozens of photos a few weeks ago in the Badia de Pollença of kiteboarders and youngsters enjoying their acrobatics, one of the Hybrid […]

Customs & Traditions

The Paris Meridian

In 1718 and thus, long before Greenwich, the Paris Meridian was established as the Prime Meridian (Zero Meridian) to map the world. In 1666, King Louis XIV of France had […]

Architecture

Mysteries of Talayotic Mallorca

Not very much is known with certainty about Mallorca in prehistoric times. Many mysteries surround the Talayotic period. According to the book Tuhfat al-Arib fi al-Radd written in 1420 by […]

Boats

To See Mallorca From The Sea

There is no question that Mallorca is a very beautiful island. Mallorca seems spoilt for its richly varied landscape – mountains, hills, plains, bays, coves, beaches and caves. But believe […]

Architecture

Mallorcan Parish Churches

You will find that in Mallorcan pueblos it was quite common to rebuild and replace their parish churches over the centuries. Normally, the new church outclasses the previous one in […]