The International Organ Week
If you should happen to like music, and if music is your passion, you could do much worse than live in Mallorca. Music has traditionally played a large part in […]
The Pietà
Good Friday celebrations centre around the Davallament, here in Felanitx, a performance of the Passion Play which has been staged, here, ever since 1975. The Davallament is the story of […]
Gaudí’s Amazing Sounding Board
In about 1903-04, or thereabouts, Antoni Gaudí designed an amazing contraption for the main pulpit of Palma’s Cathedral. At the time, microphones, loudspeakers or electric amplifiers were not invented, yet, […]
The Solemn Sound Of Silence
Last night, the first of this year’s Easter processions was held in Felanitx, the Processó del Silenci (Procesión del Silencio, Silent Procession). The procession started with a congregation at the parish […]
The 39 Steps
The 39 steps of Artà are in fact 180 steps, leading up to the Santuari de Sant Salvador. Whilst not quite as magnificent as the 364 steps leading up to […]
The Killing Fields
A commemorative act was celebrated last Saturday in Porreres in honour of victims of the Spanish Civil War. The scene of the homage was the so-called Racó de la Memòria, […]
Post Mortem
When someone dies in Mallorca, in a community traditionally well steeped in the Catholic faith, a stringent set of ceremonial rites is set in place. First, a wake is being […]
Vincit Regnat Imperat
Not often do we see church bells from close proximitry. We might hear them occasionally if we have an ear for their sound but, seldom do we get up to […]
Ash Wednesday
The countdown to Easter has started, here in Spain. Last night, Ash Wednesday was celebrated in Catholic churches up and down the island of Mallorca. At the end of the […]
The Old Seminary Church
I must confess to being a bit of a nerd. I do not actually indulge in train spotting or some such frivolity nor do I collect moths and butterflies, nor […]
Creus
The convent of Sant Francesc (San Francisco) in Palma is always a good place to visit and in particular so for its beautiful cloisters. Now, there is an added bonus […]
The Claustre de Sant Vicent in Manacor
The Dominican Order originated in the south of France at the beginning of the 13th century where the fraternity was known as the Jacobins (Blackfriars in England). Later, during the […]
Albert Camus and the Balearic Islands
Albert Camus, French novelist and dramatist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was born in Algeria from a French father and a mother of Spanish descent. The mother […]
The Blessed Oil Of Sant Blai
The Església de Sant Joan de Malta in Palma’s Old Town had been closed for restoration for almost two years. The church dates from 1835 and was erected over an […]
The Ballet Of The February Sun
May I remind you that twice a year, on November 11th and on February 2nd, we have the unique opportunity to see a truly awesome spectacle of light inside Palma’s […]
The Ley de la Memoria Histórica
During a recent visit to Campos I discovered that the Spanish Ley de la Memoria histórica (Historical Memory Law) is, slowly but surely, being taken seriously in some small ways. […]
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