Agatha Christie in Mallorca
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (née Miller) was born 122 years ago today (September 15th, 1890). You may be interested to know that there is a link between Agatha […]
The Truth in Literature
Literature has always been about the conflict between fiction and reality, the clash between the real and the surreal, the relation between the mind and the written word. Some of […]
Fra Juníper Serra, the Mallorcan Missionary
Fra Juníper Serra was born in the village of Petra on November 24th, 1713. Padre Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25th, 1988. Mallorca is currently […]
The Sounds of Silence
Every now and then, you will come to understand that there is a handful of people, at most, that have shaped your life. Most often, such people are your parents, […]
The Other Half
The other day, a commemorative act was held in Portocolom to mark the 90th anniversary of the foundation of Spain’s first civil school for amphibian planes, the Escuela de Hidroaviación […]
Jaume el Conquistador
Jaime I de Aragón el Conquistador died 736 years ago today (July 27th, 1276). He led the Catalan conquest in 1229 when he was only 21 years old, taking Mallorca […]
The Capella de Sant Bernat
The Catedral de Mallorca, in Palma, is well worth a visit, not least for the splendour of some of its 15 lateral chapels (there are four more chapels which are […]
Walking on Ice
An art exhibition was opened last week at Sa Llotja in Palma. I did not go to the opening. I never go to openings; I make it my habit to […]
Majorca Observed
I went back to Deià the other day to take a friend from England to Robert Graves’ house, Ca n’Alluny, which was converted into a museum a few years ago. I […]
A Private Seawater Lobster Tank
Something like eighteen years ago, a friend of mine showed me a private property in Portocolom which was for sale. The house was amazing. It looked a bit like the […]
Ode to Joy
Tomorrow, we will be in for a treat. The Orquestra Simfònica de Balears ‘Ciutat de Palma’ will give a Benefit Concert at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Projecte […]
The Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean World
Mateo Prunes (1532-1594) was a mapmaker and prolific member of a family of Mallorcan cartographers who lived and worked here from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. The […]
The Alcover-Moll Dictionary
The Catalan language is a rather beautiful, often quite poetic language. Currently, there is much debate here in Mallorca as to whether Mallorquín as a language is a proper such […]
Alqueries, Rafals and Rafalets
When the Catalans came to Mallorca in 1229 to successfully conquer the island from the hands of the Almohad Caliphate, all Mallorcan land and its properties, titles and possessions had […]
The Seven Year Itch
Rafa Nadal has done it again. He beat the seven-year itch and conquered his seventh Paris Open trophy at Roland Garros yesterday, Monday, after Sunday’s final had to be interrupted […]
Flower Power
The Fira de ses Flors in Costitx is a bit of a misnomer. More appropriately, it should rather be called a fair of flowers, plants, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns […]
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