The Festa de Sant Antoni
The Fiesta de San Antonio goes back a very long time indeed, here on the island of Mallorca. In Pollença, for instance, documents show that the Festa de Sant Antoni […]
Espinagadas In Sa Pobla
With the festivities of Christmas, New Year and Three Kings behind us, now in January it is time for the Festa de Sant Antoni. The fiesta involves large bonfires up […]
The Heritage of Valldemossa
It is a pity really that the pueblo of Valldemossa seems to suffer the dubious fame of being associated forever with not much more than the visit by Frédéric Chopin […]
Swedish Santa Lucia Lights
Traditionally, December 13th is considered as being the shortest day with the longest night of the year in Sweden. Why that is I cannot tell you. I suppose it has […]
An Immaculate Bonfire
Son Mesquida is a small hamlet near Felanitx with perhaps 250 inhabitants. The Festes de la Immaculada are celebrated in this pueblecito every year in December with an immaculate fogueron […]
No Sound Of Music
In the past few years, musical presentations and concerts were put on in Mallorca during the week leading up to November 22nd on the occasion of Santa Cecília (Saint Cecilia, […]
La Immaculada Concepció
There must be over 300 churches and chapels in Mallorca. Most of these churches are pretty dark inside, sombre, forbidding, authoritarian, almost fear inspiring. The parish church in Ca’s Concos […]
The Church Bells of Sant Miquel
One does not often have the opportunity to climb up to the sanctum sanctorum of a Mallorcan belfry, but yesterday was my lucky day. I have a thing about churchbells […]
Santa Úrsula and the Virgins
Tomorrow, October 21st, Spain and the rest of the Catholic world celebrate Santa Úrsula and the legend of the 11,000 marauded virgins. In the Spanish speaking world, the October 21st […]
Fray Junípero Serra
In 1769, one Pope resided in Avignon, and another one in Rome. The United States of America were not yet constituted, not even remotely imagined. The West coast of what […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Patron Saint of Felanitx
Today, everything will be shut in Felanitx. The town is celebrating a public holiday in honour of Santa Margalida, one of the two patron saints of Felanitx. The Festa de […]
Festes de Sant Pere
Port d’Alcúdia is celebrating its Festes de Sant Pere (the Patron Saint of fishermen) with a gathering of the giants and also, a correfoc. Whilst the main day of festivities […]
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